[vtkusers] Build instructions for OS X 10.2.3

[Bill Hoffman]

I think the problem is that you are using OS X, which is a new, and
yet to be fully supported platform for VTK.   The next release of VTK/CMake
should support OS X much better.   VTK 4.0 does not work with the current
OS X.   OS X is a bit of a moving target.   

As you mention the new X11 stuff was JUST added to OS X, and it did break
some of the build stuff.   Most of the effort for OS X, has been done
for Coco and Carbon.    There is no nightly testing for VTK on OS X with
X11.  I think your best hope is to use CMake 1.6 beta 2, and cvs VTK.
The other approach is to wait a month or two for the next VTK release.

If there is someone out there that has been able to build/run VTK on OS X
with X11, and you are interested keeping that functionality working in VTK, please 
contact me.   I will help you to set up a nightly dashboard build on your machine,
that will test VTK and make sure that it continues to work in the future.   
We are close (month or two) to a new VTK release, so if there are some "hacks/tricks"
that need to be done to VTK for X11 on OSX, speak now, or live with CVS VTK for
the next year.

-Bill


At 03:08 PM 1/22/2003 -0500, roch at rogue-research.com wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have been trying for several days to get VTK to build with OS X with no success. I used fink to install tcltk and Python (and all it's many dependencies), then installed CMake 1.4.7. I've also tried with various flavours of tcltk and have not had any luck. I either get missing symbols that should be in the tcl lib, or errors in tk. Since each attempt involves an hour or so of compilation, it is slow going when I have to take a poke at this and see what happens approach.
>
>I've noticed that probably 1 in 5 messages in this group are related to getting vtk to build on one platform or another. I know I am not the right person to say this as I have contributed 0 to this great effort up to now, but my impression is that this is a sore spot. Coming from a new user, it would be a huge help if there were some clear and reproducible documentation on installation.
>
>Please do not interpret this as complaining, and I am continuing to try to get vtk working so I can evaluate it for my needs. I am as anxious as anyone to move from building the tools to actually learning to use the tools (and maybe contribute something as well).
>
>Thanks,
>
>Roch
>
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>On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 11:54 AM, Surajit Nundy wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>        I have been using vtk (with Java) somewhat successfully on Mac OS X 10.1.5 for some time now.  Because of the advent of Apple's X11 implementation, I would like to use it on 10.2.x (hopefully 10.2.3).  
>>I downloaded the CVS version of vtk with the release version of CMake (1.4.7) and tried to build it with default options but got all these undefined symbol errors.  Has anyone successfully built vtk on 10.2.3 and if so, could they tell me what I am doing wrong?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Surajit Nundy
>>
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