[vtkusers] 64 Bit OS X Version

[Mike Jackson]

I wonder if it is possible to build a "headless" VTK build, a build  
that does not use any GUI at all. Turn off X, Cocoa and carbon..

Ideas?

Mike Jackson

On Oct 20, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Sean McBride wrote:

> On 2005-10-20 09:08, Mike Jackson said:
>
>
>> Has anyone successfully compiled VTK (Any version) with 64 bit
>> support for OS X 10.4.x? With the release of the G5's yesterday we
>> are considering purchasing one loaded with RAM and I am trying to
>> figure out if it is worth it or not. 4GB of RAM is starting to hinder
>> our problem domain. If you did compile VTK, were there any caveats?
>> Like turning off all the GUI elements (because they are not 64 bit
>> ready)?
>>
>
> I don't think this will be possible.  As you say 'GUI elements' are  
> not
> 64 bit ready.  More precisely, the only Apple-provided frameworks that
> come in 64 bit varieties are System.framework and  
> Accelerate.framework.
> VTK uses all kinds of others like Carbon, Cocoa, OpenGL, etc., etc.,
> none of which are 64 bit capable.
>
> So unfortunately, any code using vtk will be limited to max 4 GB of  
> RAM,
> probably more like 2.5-3 really, because of memory used by apple
> libraries and fragmentation, etc.
>
> Maybe OS 10.5 will have more 64 bit libraries.
>
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