[vtkusers] Link errors when building VTK with Python on Mac OSX Darwin

[Martin Costabel]

Jens Thomas wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm currently trying to get vtk to build with the Python wrappings on a 
> Mac OSX Darwin (the output of the sw_vers command is: ProductName: Mac 
> OS X, ProductVersion: 10.3.5, BuildVersion:   7M34).  The problem seems 
> to be that the cmake is somehow losing the location of the python 
> libraries so that ld can't find them.
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> Output from the last bit of the build:
> 
> Building shared module /Users/jens/VTK/bin/libvtkFilteringPython.so...
> /Users/jens/cmake/bin/cmake -E remove -f 
> /Users/jens/VTK/bin/libvtkFilteringPython.so
> c++ -bundle    -o /Users/jens/VTK/bin/libvtkFilteringPython.so 
> vtkCardinalSplinePython.o vtkCastToConcretePython.o 
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> vtkUnstructuredGridToUnstructuredGridFilterPython.o   -L. 
> -L/Users/jens/VTK/bin -lvtkFiltering -lvtkCommon -framework AppKit 
> -lpthread -lm
> ld: Undefined symbols:
> _PyArg_ParseTuple
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What version of vtk is this? For versions prior to 4.4, there is no hope 
of making python wrappers work on MacOSX. The right cooperation of *.so 
and *.dylib objects hadn't been found.

-- 
Martin