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

[Romy Schneider]

FYI about tcl/tk on Mac.  Default install of tcl/tk on MacBook Pro is  
the aqua version (i.e. Cocoa), so if you build VTK with tcl/tk  
bindings and X, you have to install a separate tcl/tk version for  
X11.  I know this is possible with a source build, but all the  
documentation I ever found on the net for tcl/tk was for a native  
aqua build (this was a new feature in tcl 8.4).

As Mike suggested, a way around this is to install Paraview, which  
has it's own version of VTK and Tcl/Tk. This compile will build an  
X11 version of Tcl/Tk and VTK, but compiling Paraview on an intel Mac  
has it's own set of issues.  And depending on which Paraview you  
install, Tcl/Tk and VTK could be a little out of date.

Romy


On Sep 25, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Mike Jackson wrote:

> Start clean by blowing away Cmake, VTK, and Tcl/Tk.
>
> Make sure you have installed the latest version of the Apple Developer
> tools. This would be Xcode version 2.4. (Developer.apple.com). This  
> package
> has all the compilers and tools that you will need.
>
>
> Now untar/ungzip the sources for Cmake into a directory located at the
> following location:
> /Users/Shared/
> Open a terminal.
> "cd" into the Cmake directory, Something like:
>  [mjackson at Thor:~]$ cd /Users/Shared/ cmake-2.4.3
> [mjackson at Thor:~]$ ./configure
> ... That will spit out a bunch of stuff.....
> [mjackson at Thor:~]$ make
> ... That will spit out more stuff....
> [mjackson at Thor:~]$  sudo make install
> ... Enter your admin password.. Then it will spit out some more stuff.
>
> The default installation is in /usr/local/  which is fine on OS X.
> This concludes the installation of Cmake
>
> VTK:
>   Untar/gzip VTK into the same /Users/Shared directory
> Open a terminal:
> [mjackson at Thor:~]$  cd /Users/Shared/
> [mjackson at Thor:~]$ mkdir vtk502
> [mjackson at Thor:~]$ cd vtk502
> [mjackson at Thor:~]$ ccmake ../VTK
> .. This will start the curses based Cmake program where you will  
> choose
> which options to use while building...
>   The important selection is which GUI environment to build: Cocoa,  
> Carbon
> or X-Windows.
>   Build cocoa if you are building Objective-C/Objective-C++  
> applications
> otherwise turn this OFF
>   Build with Carbon if you are using C++ to build a GUI otherwise  
> turn this
> OFF. ( if you are going to use Qt I would assume that this needs to  
> be ON)
>   Build with X-Windows if you are targeting X-Windows in your gui app.
>
> Turn ON shared Libraries.
> Turn ON rpath
>
> Some people turn on Testing and examples. I don't.
> Download the documentation from the same page that you downloaded  
> the source
> from.
>
> After you have made your selections, type the "c" key to  
> "configure". When
> theat is complete, type the "g" key to generate the make files. If  
> "g" is
> not available, type the "c" key again until "g" is available.
>
> If typing "g" is successful then ccmake will exit and leave you  
> back at a
> command prompt.
>
> [mjackson at Thor:~]$ make -j 2
> .. This will use 2 concurrent build threads to build VTK. If you  
> are on a
> Mac Pro Quad Processor you could probably use "make -j 6" and be OK.
>
> Go get a cup of coffee.. In about 10-15 minutes VTK will be  
> compiled. 25
> Minutes on a Mac Book Pro.
>
> This concludes the Building of VTK. You don't have to install  
> anything at
> this point as the Rpath that is set in the libraries will make sure  
> all the
> dylibs can be found.
>
> I have never used or installed Tcl/Tk. Someone else is going to  
> have to pick
> up the instructions at this point.
>
>  I know that Paraview has its own distribution of Tcl/Tk and VTK.  
> You might
> try that..
>
> Mike Jackson
>
>
>
> On 9/24/06 4:15 PM, "Matthieu Masquelet" <gtg540e at prism.gatech.edu>  
> 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.
>>
>> I've played around trying to follow some old tutorials found on the
>> Web and now I have several non-working directories with various
>> flavours of CMake, VTK, etc...
>> So what should I do to start clean?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> Matthieu Masquelet
>> Graduate Research Assistant
>> Computational Combustion Laboratory
>> Georgia Institute of Technology
>> gtg540e at prism.gatech.edu
>> Ph: 404-894-1409
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
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