[vtkusers] Re: Ongong woes building vtk on Mac OSX

[Martin Costabel]

Dr. Daniel James White PhD wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> my vtk build is 4.3 and now a bit aged (1 year),
> but at least vtk python works for me,
> well, it starts ok and imports mayavi...
> see below terminal output.
> 
> Dan
> 
> Last login: Wed Sep 29 19:24:08 on ttyp2
> Welcome to Darwin!
> v[daniel:~] dan% vtkpython
> vtk version 4.3.0, vtk source $Revision: 1.1716 $, $Date: 2003/10/08 
> 01:45:16 $ (GMT)
> Python 2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11)
> [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import mayavi
>  >>>

A slightly more recent version is included in Fink. You can use fink to 
compile it yourself without having to worry about cmake options, or you 
can even install the precompiled version from Fink's binary distribution:

% vtkpython
vtk version 4.4.0, vtk source $Revision: 1.1782 $, $Date: 2003/12/17 
02:45:35 $ (GMT)
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Aug 17 2004, 07:23:12)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import mayavi
 >>>

-- 
Martin