[vtkusers] Problems building VTK on Mac OSX 10.2.1

[Sandor Heman]

Hi Raphael,

On 9/24/02 14:37, "Raphael Sebbe" <sebbe at multitel.be> wrote:

> I saw from your build log you were trying to compile VTK for Cocoa. It
> is my understanding that to use Tcl/Tk, you have to use the Carbon
> backend (the same stands for Java), as Tcl/Tk for Mac OS X is
> implemented in Carbon (although I guess this is less of an issue with
> Jaguar, Carbon and Cocoa can work together). I was never able to use
> Tcl/Tk-VTK on Mac OS X, though I heard people had success with that.

Well, Yves in a recent email told me that it should compile both for cocoa
and Carbon now. I'm trying to build for Cocoa with Tcl/tk and Python support
at the moment.

> Right now I use exclusively VTK/Cocoa/Objective-C++, and it works well.
> I would be grateful however if someone with a working setup could put
> the binaries (gcc3.1) of VTK-Carbon-Tcl libs + Tcl/Tk somewhere so that
> I can see the various VTK examples written in Tcl.

Well I could send you my config if I will ever succeed ;)
If this cocoa build fails I'll possibly try a carbon build.

> ps; I also have an X11 installation, but no problem so far with it.

Hmmm...probably some Cmake issue.

Bye

Sandor Heman

> On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 01:55 PM, Sandor Heman wrote:
> 
>> Hi Yves,
>> 
>>> Do you have xfree86 installed on your machine?
>> 
>> Well I removed it now and tried to compile but it looks as if my Tk
>> framework is also 'X11 spoiled'...
>> The compilation crashed with some inclusion of X11/Xlib.h failing (see
>> below)
>> I'm using active states tcl/tk 8.4.
>> Maybe I'll try another distribution :-/
>> 
>> Thanx for your help,
>> 
>> Sandor Heman
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