[vtkusers] Build failure for vtk on os x Panther with python

Martin Costabel costabel at wanadoo.fr
Wed Mar 17 16:29:40 EST 2004


david e ignacio wrote:
> I'd actually look into using the fink version of python when building
> vtk on the Mac.  I have built VTK for my lab to run on both 10.2.7 and
> 10.3.2, and it works like a charm.  
> 
> Fink:  fink.sourceforge.net
> 
> They actually just recently upgraded version 2.3 into the stable
> branch.  So then after fink install python, change the following values
> in CMake:
> 
> PYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH=/sw/include/python2.3
> PYTHON_LIBRARY=/sw/lib/python2.3/config/libpython2.3.dylib

If you use Fink's python, you could also give Fink's vtk-py23 package a 
try. This is vtk-4.4 with python wrappings enabled. It is configured for 
running with X11, so it also uses Fink's tcltk package.

-- 
Martin




More information about the vtkusers mailing list