[vtkusers] Installing python VTK bindings on windows

[Yoan BLANC]

Richard Layman wrote:

> The libs are compiled for Python 2.1 so I don't know if you want to 
> install them to Python unless you are using 2.1 (I guess most people 
> are probably not.) You can still use the vtkpython executable if you 
> can live with Python 2.1.
>
> Is it possible to update the windows executable to have python 2.3 or 
> 2.4 support?

You have to compile it.

You need a lot components like : cl (Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003), 
nmake (Microsoft Platform SDK), TCL (activeTcl), python 2.4 (or 2.3), 
cmake and of course the source of VTK (4.2, 4.4 or CVS).

configure some environment variables :

set TCL=C:\Tcl
set MSVC=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003
set MSSDK=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK

set INCLUDE=%MSVC%\include;%MSSDK%\include
set LIB=%MSVC%\lib;%MSSDK%\lib
set PATH=%MSVC%\bin;%MSSDK%\bin;%MSSDK%\bin\win64;%PATH%

set TK_XLIB_PATH=%TCL%\include

configure CMakeLists.txt (shared libs, python and so on)

cmake . -G"NMake Makefiles"
nmake

(have a coffee)

cd Wrapping\Python\
python setup install

python -c "import vtk; print vtk.vtkVersion().GetVTKSourceVersion()"

tadaa !

Yoan

>
>
>> From: Olivier Feys <olivier.feys at gmail.com>
>> To: vtkusers at vtk.org
>> Subject: [vtkusers] Installing python VTK bindings on windows
>> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:37:51 +0100
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm currently installing VTK on windows for using it with python. The 
>> aim is
>> tho install it easily without any compilation (not free on windows).
>>
>> I have done the following things :
>>
>> - installing tcl/tk with the vtk website link (tcl832.exe)
>> - installing vtk with the vtk website link (vtk42-LatestRelease.exe)
>>
>> How to install bindings in python "site packages"?
>> I read the file README.txt that explains the installation of python 
>> wrapping
>> and it seems it's not correct because no setup.py file is accessible 
>> in the
>> VTK_ROOT/Wraping/Python/. Only a file setup.py.in 
>> <http://setup.py.in> that
>> seems not to be configured.
>
python setup.py install

>>
>> Can someone help me out?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Olivier
>
>
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