[vtkusers] Issues with VTK 4.2

[Leila Baghdadi]

Hey Tom

I am afraid, I am gonna have to disagree with your comment
" it's never gotten any easier to install and configure".

I have vtk on two machines with redhat 9.0 in one and windows 2000 in 
another and I can tell you I have not experienced any problems compiling 
or building vtk in either of my machines.

Eventhough, you have posted a list of all the problems, I must say at 
least the introduction of Cmake has made everyone's life much easier.


Leila

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Tom G. Smith (Smitty) wrote:

> Hello vtkusers at public.kitware.com,
> 
> I just installed VTK 4.2 on a RedHat 9.0 system.  We've been using
> VTK for a number of years now, since VTK Version 2.4, and it's never
> gotten any easier to install and configure.  Here are several
> issues:
> 
> 1.	During the cmake -i, it prompts you to BUILD_SHARED_LIBS,
> 	with the default of OFF.  If you don't change it to ON and
> 	subsequently override VTK_WRAP_PYTHON to ON, it waits
> 	another 30 prompts or so before it dies with the error,
> 	"VTK_WRAP_PYTHON requires BUILD_SHARED_LIBS to be ON."
> 	Then you have to go through the whole tedious set of prompts
> 	from the beginning again.
> 
> 2.	I left VTK_USE_HYBRID and VTK_USE_PARALLEL both at OFF, but
> 	set VTK_WRAP_TCL to ON.  When the cmake finished and I
> 	try to run any of the Tcl examples, they work, but I get
> 	these messages every time:
> 
> 	bash-2.05b$ vtk /opt/vtk/Examples/Modelling/Tcl/faultLines.tcl
> 	can't find package vtkHybridTCL 4.2
> 	can't find package vtkParallelTCL 4.2
> 
> 3.	It works, but I get these messages if I run vtk anywhere but
> 	directly at the console.  These messages have been around
> 	since VTK 4.0.	They did not appear prior to that version.
> 
> 	bash-2.05b$ vtk /opt/vtk/Examples/Modelling/Tcl/faultLines.tcl
> 	Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> 	Xlib: No protocol specified
> 
> 4.	Some of the tcl examples don't work at all. I've only listed a few
> 	that I tried which failed; there are lots more that don't work:
> 
> 	bash-2.05b$ vtk /opt/vtk/Examples/Modelling/Tcl/procrustesAlignment.tcl
> 	Error in startup script: invalid command name
> 	"vtkProcrustesAlignmentFilter" while executing
> 	"vtkProcrustesAlignmentFilter procrustes1" (file
> 	"/opt/vtk/Examples/Modelling/Tcl/procrustesAlignment.tcl"
> 	line 49)
> 
> 	bash-2.05b$ vtk /opt/vtk/Examples/Modelling/Tcl/hello.tcl
> 	can't find package vtkHybridTCL 4.2 can't find package
> 	vtkParallelTCL 4.2 Error in startup script: invalid command
> 	name "vtkImplicitModeller" while executing "vtkImplicitModeller
> 	imp" (file "/opt/vtk/Examples/Modelling/Tcl/hello.tcl" line 24)
> 
> 
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