[vtkusers] cygwin build of VTK successful but exits on package require vtk

[HIRAKI Hideaki]

David,

When I tried VTK-5.0.0, the problem could be worked around by
erasing CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS, setting CMAKE_USE_PTHREAD=OFF and 
CMAKE_USE_WIN32_THREAD=ON. vtkWin32RenderWindowInteractor seemed
to conflict with cygwin's pthreads implementation.

As for MinGW, Brad King have checked in the fixes. You may try 
cvs versions of CMake and VTK.

Regards,

Hideaki Hiraki


At Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:42:04 +1030, "Netherway, David" wrote:
> 
> > Hello vtkusers,
> > 
> > I have been able to build vtk (cvs version from 17 Mar 2006) but as
> > soon as I type "package require vtk" vtk exits.
> > 
> > The build options selected were to
> > BUILD_SHARED_LIBS
> > and to 
> > VTK_WRAP_TCL
> > 
> > Other relevent settings were 
> > TCL_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/lib/libtcl.a
> > TCL_TCLSH:FILEPATH=/usr/bin/tclsh
> > TK_INCLUDE_PATH:PATH=/usr/include
> > TK_INTERNAL_PATH:PATH=/usr/local/src/VTK_060317/VTK/Utilities/TclTk/in
> > ternals/tk8.4
> > TK_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/lib/libtk.a
> > TK_XLIB_PATH:PATH=/usr/src/tcltk-20060202-1/tk/xlib
> > 
> > The problem seems to be with tcltk.
> > "package require vtkgraphics" returns "5.1" as expected.
> > But "package require vtkrendering" causes vtk to exit.
> > 
> The patchlevel (for tcltk) is as follows:
> ./vtk
> info patchlevel
> 8.4.1
> 
> TCLLIBPATH=/usr/local/src/VTK_060317/VTK/Wrapping/Tcl
> 
> 
> > I have tried a few variations unsuccessfully. I have yet to try
> > actually building tcl/tk under cygwin as when I went down that path I
> > wound up trying to build under mingw. That was also unsuccessful.
> > (Even though I managed to build tcltk under mingw.)
> > 
> > 
> > Using an earlier version of vtk (14 Feb 2006) I managed to get
> > "package require vtk" to not exit by commenting out the two lines:
> > ::vtk::rendering::SetWin32ExitCallback
> > in 
> > VTK/Wrapping/Tcl/vtkrendering/vtkrendering.tcl
> > But then the package would die on
> > package require vtkinteraction
> > 
> > Has anyone successfully successfully used vtk with tcltk after
> > building under cygwin?
> > 
> > "make test" seems to run sucessfully with only a few failed tests.
> > These failed tests do not appear to be relevent:
> > 
> > 97% tests passed, 15 tests failed out of 477
> > 
> > The following tests FAILED:
> >          56 - TestClipHyperOctree (Failed)
> >          57 - TestHyperOctreeContourFilter (Failed)
> >          58 - TestHyperOctreeCutter (Failed)
> >          59 - TestHyperOctreeDual (Failed)
> >          60 - TestHyperOctreeSurfaceFilter (Failed)
> >          61 - TestHyperOctreeToUniformGrid (Failed)
> >          63 - BoxClipPolyData (Failed)
> >          66 - TestHierarchicalBoxPipeline (Failed)
> >          68 - UnstructuredGridGradients (Failed)
> >          69 - UnstructuredGridCellGradients (Failed)
> >         248 - TestGenericProbeFilter (Failed)
> >         254 - HeaderTesting-Imaging (Failed)
> >         330 - PrintSelf-Imaging (Failed)
> >         331 - TestSetObjectMacro-Imaging (Failed)
> >         357 - TestHyperOctreeIO (Failed)
> > Errors while running CTest
> > make: *** [test] Error 8
> > 
> > There is also a side question in that running vtk from a cygwin xterm
> > does not allow commands to be typed into the console whereas running
> > vtk from the initial cygwin prompt does allow commands to be typed.
> > (There is the same behaviour with wish as well so it is not
> > specifically a vtk issue.)
> > 
> > I hope someone can help with this as it has been something I have been
> > coming back to over the last month and am still unsuccessful.
> > 
> > Thanks, David
> > 
> >