[vtkusers] Generating a 64 bit version of vtk...

[Kevin H. Hobbs]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 09:52 +0200, C Heinzl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working in the area of an industrial CT, especially on exact geometry
> comparison. So precise data is essential but large data files over 2Gb aren't
> easy to handle. Decimating the data would introduce a measurement
> error which my partners don't want to have. Currently I use 32 bit in my
> testapp which is fine till 650 Mb but later on I should think about a
> solution for larger datasets. Therefore I'd like to have a 64 bit version of vtk.
> Does anybody have some experience with generating a 64 bit vtk? 
> A first idea is to replace all the longs by__int64. Would that work?
> 
> THX
> Christoph

I had no trouble compiling VTK on x86_64 after I put 

	CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64:/usr/X11R6/lib64
	export CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH

in my .bash_profile.  Before that cmake found the 32 bit libs.
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