[vtkusers] Compiling VTK 4.2 under MacOS 10.3.2

[Martin Costabel]

On 13 févr. 2004, at 11:18, hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr wrote:

> I am trying to install VTK 4.2 on my iBook, which runs MacOS 10.3.2, 
> the Apple developer kit (which includes gcc 3.3), and a lot of stuff 
> from Fink, including cmake 1.8.2.
>
> ccmake leads rather quickly to the error message
>
>   Compiling VTK CMake commands - failed
>
> cmake -i does the same, but lets me proceed, asking questions that I 
> don't quite understand (CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE for example), and, if I 
> accept the default replies, produces the same error message once 
> again.
>
> Someone has already reported this problem, but under Linux, whereas 
> others who report problems under MacOS seem to have progressed much 
> further. Is this perhaps a gcc-related problem? But most of all, what 
> can I do to move on? Any hints on what I could check or test?

You could, for example, install the vtk package from Fink and see if 
this works.

-- 
Martin