[vtkusers] Tutorial for newbies for installing VTK on Intel Mac

[Martin Costabel]

Matthieu Masquelet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am now the proud owner of an Intel iMac and it looks like it is not 
> going to be easy to build VTK (my ultimate goal being on using MayaVi). 
> I'm willing to spend some time on this to understand how it works and 
> why not write a little tutorial on it to guide newbies like me through 
> the installation of CMake, Tcl/Tk and VTK. Please assume that I don't 
> know much when trying to explain me what I should do.

If you are happy with X11 graphics, you can use Fink 
<http://fink.sourceforge.net>. The instructions are very simple:

1. Install Fink (standard Apple installer)
2. Run "fink install mayavi"

You can do some configuration of Fink, concerning the version you want 
to have (by default you get mayavi-1.4 running with vtk-5.0.0 and 
python-2.3; you can have mayavi-1.5 with vtk-5.0.2 and python-2.4 by 
enabling Fink's unstable tree), and whether you want to install 
precompiled binaries (now the default) or let fink compile everything 
from the sources.

-- 
Martin