[vtkusers] Ongong woes building vtk on Mac OSX

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Could someone confirm that vtkpython doesn't work on MacOSX then ?

Thanks
Mathieu

Sean McInerney wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   The "interpreter not initialized" problems reminds me of a problem 
> that I had on OSX related to initialization of static data. Do python's 
> internals rely upon some static data or singletons that might not be 
> initialized in the expected order on OSX?
> 
>   Also ... and of possible help to you ... If you are linking static 
> objects into a dynamic library, you will likely need to compile your 
> static objects as "position independent" or "relocatable" objects. 
> Depending on your compiler, this just means adding '-fPIC', '-KPIC', 
> etc. to the compiler flags.
> 
> -Sean
> 
> Sander Niemeijer wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Some time ago I have been struggling with self-made Python builds 
>> myself on Mac OS X.
>> As far as I remember that specific error was indeed caused by using a 
>> static version of the library instead of a shared variant. The problem 
>> with the Python 2.3.3 version I use(d) is that the package does not 
>> support a way to create a libpython2.3.dylib, so you have to do it 
>> yourself. I borrowed my solution from the Python package in Fink. They 
>> provide a manual dynamic link line after they build the Python 
>> package. Something like:
>>
>> cc -dynamiclib -all_load -framework System -framework CoreServices \
>>    -framework Foundation ...../lib/python2.3/config/libpython2.3.a \
>>    -o ...../lib/libpython2.3.dylib -install_name 
>> ....../lib/libpython2.3.dylib \
>>    -current_version 2.3 -compatibility_version 2.3
>>
>> If you have Fink installed, just look at the contents of the file:
>>
>> /sw/fink/10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/languages/python23.info
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Sander
>>
>> On woensdag, sep 29, 2004, at 19:20 Europe/Amsterdam, Prabhu 
>> Ramachandran wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>> "JT" == Jens Thomas <j.m.h.thomas at dl.ac.uk> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>     JT> I've had to build my own Python distribution as I was getting
>>>     JT> the "Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version
>>>     JT> mismatch?)" error due to tkinter not being installed with the
>>>     JT> default Python installation on the Mac. As I don't have root
>>>     JT> acces on the machine I'm working on (I'm working on it
>>>     JT> remotely), I've decided to build my own python distribution
>>>     JT> from scratch and use that instead. However, I'm now getting
>>>     JT> errors during the build that I've pasted in below. I've also
>>>     JT> included my CMakeCache.txt below that.
>>>
>>> I have no clue about the Mac and if this will help or not but you
>>> could try to build your Python library as a shared library
>>> (libpython2.3.so/dyld and not libpython2.3.a).  How you will do that,
>>> I have no idea.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> prabhu
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