[vtkusers] VTK + Python on Solaris

[Epifanio, Craig C]

Prabhu,

Thanks for getting back to me.  When I try to run vtkpython I get an immediate
segmentation error.  (I probably should have mentioned that in my previous
note.)  Today I tried to build everything (python + VTK) from source with the
GNU compilers.  (Apparently you can get around alot of the non-standard ANSI
stuff by setting VTK_USE_ANSI_STDLIB to ON.)  But during the VTK build I get
the following:

ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [/usr/local/src/VTK-4.2.2/bin/libvtkCommonPython.so] Error 1
make[2]: *** [default_target] Error 2
make[1]: *** [default_target_Common] Error 2
make: *** [default_target] Error 2

This looks to be related to the previous error I observed at runtime with the
Sun compilers.  Anyway, I think at this point I may back off and try to build
on a linux platform instead (just to reassure myself that I can build it). 
Thanks for your advice, though.

Regards,
Craig


Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu at aero.iitm.ernet.in> said:

> Hi,
> 
> >>>>> "ECC" == Craig C Epifanio writes:
> 
>     ECC> I am trying to build VTK 4.2.2 with Python 2.2.2 on Solaris 8
>     ECC> so that I can try out the MayaVi visualization code.  I have
>     ECC> sucessfully managed to compile VTK and both the c++ and tcl
>     ECC> examples run beautifully for the most part.  But when I try
>     ECC> to use python I get the following error:
> 
>     ECC> ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: relocation error: file
>     ECC> /usr/local/src/VTK-4.2.2/bin/libvtkCommonPython.so: symbol
>     ECC>
__1cDstdMbasic_string4Ccn0ALchar_traits4Cc__n0AJallocator4Cc___J__nullref_:
>     ECC> referenced symbol not found
> 
> [snip]
> 
> I'm not sure this will help but does it work when you use the
> vtkpython interpreter instead of the Python interpreter?  There should
> be a vtkpython executable that is built inside the bin directory.
> This binary was created specifically to help with problems such as
> these.
> 
> cheers,
> prabhu
> 



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