[vtkusers] Help compiling on Mac PPC with OS X

[John Norris]

Hi,

I had set up for a verbose compile, so I could see that -lGL and -lGLU were
already included when trying to link.

I found the solution though, when I remembered the nm command.  A little
poking around revealed that these symbols were defined in
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXplugin.a .  I changed

OPENGL_gl_LIBRARY: -framework OpenGL

to

OPENGL_gl_LIBRARY: -lXplugin;-framework OpenGL

and everything linked just fine.  I even turned VTK_USE_CARBON back on.  I
haven't tried to run anything yet, though.  :^/

Has no one else had to link in libXplugin.a to compile with X included?

John

Once upon a time, Paul Schmiedge wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> I recently succeeded in creating an X-only build on Panther, and I was 
> also suffering from link errors at first.  What I ended up doing was 
> manually changing these two lines:
> 
> OPENGL_gl_LIBRARY: -framework OpenGL
> OPENGL_glu_LIBRARY: -framework AGL
> 
> To the OGL libraries that go with Apple's X11:
> 
> OPENGL_gl_LIBRARY: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a
> OPENGL_glu_LIBRARY: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.a
> 
> See if that helps.
> 
> ~Paul S.
> 
> On Jun 22, 2004, at 2:58 PM, Johnny C. Norris II wrote:
> 
> >Okay, I grabbed CMake from cvs and updated VTK from cvs.  I configured 
> >VTK with VTK_USE_X turned on, and VTK_USE_CARBON and VTK_USE_COCOA 
> >turned off.  I still get the same undefined symbols when linking the 
> >rendering lib.
> >
> >The machine I'm compiling on is supposed to be Panther with the X11 
> >option.  It definitely has the X headers and libs under /usr/X11R6.  
> >Is there a way to confirm from the command prompt that it's actually 
> >running Panther?
> >
> >Here are the X11 and OpenGL-related values from CMakeCashe.txt.  Does 
> >anyone notice anything obviously wrong?
> >
> >CMAKE_X_CFLAGS: -I/usr/X11R6/include
> >CMAKE_X_LIBS: 
> >lSM;-lICE;/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a;/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.a
> >OPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR: /usr/X11R6/include
> >OPENGL_gl_LIBRARY: -framework OpenGL
> >OPENGL_glu_LIBRARY: -framework AGL
> >OPENGL_xmesa_INCLUDE_DIR: OPENGL_xmesa_INCLUDE_DIR-NOTFOUND
> >X11_X11_INCLUDE_PATH: /usr/X11R6/include
> >X11_X11_LIB: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a
> >X11_Xext_LIB: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.a
> >X11_Xlib_INCLUDE_PATH: /usr/X11R6/include
> >X11_Xutil_INCLUDE_PATH: /usr/X11R6/include
> >
> >Thanks,
> >John

-- 
John Norris
Research Programmer
Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets
http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/jnorris