[vtkusers] Building VTK on Mac OS X without using framework

[Martin Costabel]

Theodore Sternberg wrote:
> I'd like to build VTK without using superuser privileges.  That is, I'd 
> like to build VTK against Tcl, Tk and Python that I've built and installed 
> as an ordinary user -- no "configure -framework" and "make 
> frameworkinstall".
> 
> Has anyone ever done such an installation, successfully?  I'm having a lot 
> of trouble.  For starters, ccmake generates a CMakeCache.txt that has some 
> of the Tcl-related paths going to the Tcl I've built and others going to 
> the system's Tcl down in /usr.  Ditto for Python.

The Fink package for vtk uses Fink's own tcltk and python packages, so 
this can be done. This uses cmake-2.0.5, however. With more recent 
versions of cmake I have had problems, too, because it knows too much 
about Mac OSX for its own good. I was not immediately able to tame it to 
my liking, so I stayed with the older version.

The tcltk related parts of the cmake command line in the Fink package are

   -DCMAKE_X_LIBS:STRING="-lSM;-lICE;-lX11;-lXext" \
   -DVTK_WRAP_TCL:BOOL=ON \
   -DTCL_INCLUDE_PATH:PATH=%p/include \
   -DTCL_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=%p/lib/libtcl.dylib \
   -DTK_INCLUDE_PATH:PATH=%p/include \
   -DTK_INTERNAL_PATH:PATH=%p/include/vtk/tkInternals/tk84OSX \

Here "%p" is the base directory of the Fink installation.

-- 
Martin