[vtkusers] Re: Install vtk 5 from source on redhat with python 2.5

[Fabian Braennstroem]

Hi Marc,

* Marc Christian Schöning
<Marc.Schoening at iem.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> So, i found a fix, just open the file
>
> vtkPythonUtil.cxx,
>
> go to line 771 like mentioned in the error output and place a
>
> const
>
> before the char, then it compiles.
>
> Hope it doesnt affect VTK :-).
>
> but in the moment it continues to compile for me.
>
> PS: It doenst matter, if you use a static or dynamic library for the compile process. So, the libpython*.a  should be enough.
>

Danke, seems to work for me too :-)

Greetings!
Fabian

>
>
> Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to install vtk 5.0 on a scientific linux
>> machine (redhat enterprise) clone. I enabled python and set
>> the path to my newly installed python 2.5 in an extra
>> directory:
>>
>>  PYTHON_EXECUTABLE                /opt/python-2.5/bin/python2.5                                                                                                                     
>>  PYTHON_EXTRA_LIBS                                                                                                                                                                  
>>  PYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH              /opt/python-2.5/include/python2.5                                                                                                                 
>>  PYTHON_LIBRARY                   
>>  PYTHON_UTIL_LIBRARY              /usr/lib/libutil.so    
>>
>> Maybe, one mistake is to leave the library path empty, but setting it to
>> /opt/python-2.5/lib/python2.5 did not work; I got:
>>
>>  Warning: Ignoring path found in link libraries for target: vtkWrapPython, path is: /opt/python-2.5/lib/python2.5. Expected a library name or a full path to a library name.
>>
>>  Warning: Ignoring path found in link libraries for target: vtkpython, path is: /opt/python-2.5/lib/python2.5. Expected a library name or a full path to a library name.
>>
>> when I generated the makefile. Could it be a problem with the util library?
>> ccmake did set it!?
>>
>> So, I am getting following error message, when running make:
>>
>>
>> [ 13%] Building CXX object Common/CMakeFiles/vtkCommonPythonD.dir/vtkPythonUtil.o
>> /opt/VTK/Common/vtkPythonUtil.cxx: In function `PyObject* PyVTKClassMetaType_GetAttr(PyTypeObject*, char*)':
>> /opt/VTK/Common/vtkPythonUtil.cxx:771: error: invalid conversion from `const char*' to `char*'
>> make[2]: *** [Common/CMakeFiles/vtkCommonPythonD.dir/vtkPythonUtil.o] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [Common/CMakeFiles/vtkCommonPythonD.dir/all] Error 2
>>
>>
>> Would be nice, if anybody can help!
>>
>>
>> Greetings!
>>  Fabian
>>
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