[vtkusers] vtk on intel macbook pro

Anka Kochanowska anka at bic.mni.mcgill.ca
Tue May 23 09:03:27 EDT 2006


I think you still need to carbonize it:-(
/Development/Tools/Rez Carbon.r -o your_application.
(At least I had to, having the same settings.)
Anka

Anastasia Mironova wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> thanks for the message. I am using cmake 2.2.3 and I have set the 
> variables up the way you have:
> VTK_USE_CARBON=OFF
> VTK_USE_COCOA=ON
> VTK_USE_X=OFF
>
> And in that configuration it compiles but does not respond to mouse 
> events. I am using the code that is posted on the vtk's website that 
> just draws a blue sphere (it is attached).
>
> I would appreciate any insight into the problem.
>
> Thanks very much,
> -Anastasia
>
>
> On Sun, 21 May 2006 10:28:40 -0400
>  Mike Jackson <imikejackson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anatasia,
>>    I actually had _no_ problem building VTK 5 (release from the web  
>> site) on my MacBook Pro. I turned OFF X, OFF Carbon, and ON Cocoa. I  
>> turned OFF Examples, Java and Python and Documentation (Would 
>> someone  tell me _how_ to build the Docs?).
>>
>> I do not have any problems with Mouse events in my Cocoa Apps or 
>> just  creating a Render window directly from VTK.
>>
>> Could you post the code where you create your render window and add  
>> an Interactor to it? Maybe there is something that you just happened  
>> to miss, happens to the best of us ;-)
>>
>> If you need my cmake cache. let me know. I also used Cmake 2.2.3 to  
>> build VTK 5 last time. I have since moved up to Cmake 2.4.x.
>>
>> Cheers
>> --------
>> Mike Jackson
>> imikejackson <at> gmail <dot> com
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 19, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Kenny Leung wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Anastasia.
>>>
>>> There was a problem with the 5.0.0 version of VTK that prevented it  
>>> from building on MacOSX. You may have more luck with the latest  
>>> revision from CVS.
>>>
>>> -Kenny
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 19, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Anastasia Mironova wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have been trying to install vtk5.0 on my macbook for quite some  
>>>> time now and it seems like I have tried everything: building from  
>>>> both tar.gz files and cvs, tried all kinds of combinations of ON/ 
>>>> OFF settings for VTK_USE_CARBON, VTK_USE_COCOA, and X11 variables  
>>>> in cmake but I either get compiler errors or the vtk window does  
>>>> not respond to mouse events.
>>>>
>>>> When I use Carbon and no X11, I get a compiler error:
>>>> ".../System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/ 
>>>> CarbonCore.framework/Headers/MachineExceptions.h:245:
>>>>
>>>>> error: declaration does not declare anything"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> and when I disable Carbon and enable Cocoa and i get no mouse  
>>>> events and the following error in the vtk console:
>>>> "RCNE SendEventToEventTarget (suom 8                   ) failed,  
>>>> -9870"
>>>>
>>>> I would really appreciate any insight into the problem and advice  
>>>> on how to fix it, PLEASE!
>>>>
>>>> -Anastasia
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