[vtkusers] installing on Mac OS X

[Glen Lehmann]

Hi Angela,

VTK on OS X was a real moving target between VTK 4.2 and VTK 4.4. I 
used to build the nightly releases and found a snap-shot release that 
works great with 10.2-10.4 under both Carbon and X11, python wrapping 
turned on.

Here are the important details for OS 10.2-10.4:
- gcc 3.3 (or whatever the developer kit came with back in 10.2, I 
can't remember)
- MacPython2.3 (System Python in OS > 10.2), with Tkinter enabled via 
PackageManager
- AquaTclTk8.4
- cmake-1.8.3 (of course, any nightly cmake > 1.8.3 *should* be 
backward compatible)
- cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at public.kitware.com:/cvsroot/VTK co -D "5 
May 2004" VTK

Of course, the nightly builds and lots of other snap-shots work great 
too.  Just avoid the official releases on OS X, for now.

Cheers,
Glen

On Jul 13, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Winfried Bilgic wrote:

> On 13.07.2005, at 18:07, Sean McBride wrote:
>
>> On 2005-07-13 10:49, Noecker, Angela M. said:
>>
>>
>>> We are trying to install VTK with Tcl/TK wrapper on Mac OS X version
>>> 10.3.
>>>
>>
>> Which version of Xcode do you have installed?
>
> From my point of view, it does not depend on which Xcode version you 
> have installed. It depends which GUI framework, alias Carbon, Cocoa or 
> X11 you use with VTK, and what SDK you have installed. If i mentioned 
> Mr. Malaterre right, VTK needs some header files from the Quicktime 
> SDK. Best preparation would be to install nearly every SDK avaible 
> from the Xcode Installer Package. Just my thoughts...
> My few tries finialize X11 is the best solution to get VTK running. 
> Under Carbon and Cocoa the RenderWindowInteractor isn't able to catch 
> all events from the mouse or keyboard. And under this circumstance, 
> using wrappers like java or python (needs cocoa) don't work. X11 seemd 
> to be the best possibiliy to get Tcl/Tk wrapping run... look out for 
> the Paraview binary from Kitware which runs under Mac OS X with X11 
> and Tcl/Tk wrapping. Best proove on that.
>
>>> Our attempts at installing 4.2 failed so we tried 4.4.  Our
>>> errors don't seem to be new to many of you on the mailing list but we
>>> can't seem to follow any of the threads through to a successful
>>> conclusion.  I wonder if anyone has advice as to pros/cons of 
>>> installing
>>> 4.4 vs. CVS (we really don't need the ability to track changes or 
>>> update
>>> code).  And are there any good, clear instructions for installation 
>>> for
>>> those of us that are totally new to this sort of thing?
>>>
>>
>> In general I have found the cvs version works much better on OS X, but
>> I've never done any Tcl stuff.
>
> To get used to VTK Compilation, i started to do some compilations 
> under Windows with Microsoft Visual Studio. The next step could be in 
> exchanging compiled librarys.
>
>>> We're currently getting (illegal reference to symbol _crc32).  
>>> There's
>>>
>>
>> How did you customise CMakeCache.txt versus its default settings?
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Sean McBride, B. Eng                 sean at rogue-research.com
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>> Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada
>>
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