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

[Romy Schneider]

Yes, building VTK with Cocoa or Carbon ON (since they both use aqua)  
will work with the default Tck/Tk.  Apologies for the confusion, I  
was attempting to relay that building VTK with X ON requires a  
separate X11-binded build of Tcl/Tk.


On Sep 25, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Mike Jackson wrote:

> What ever the Tcl/Tk default install is based on I would _think_  
> (although
> untested) that if you built VTK with those same bindings ( Cocoa  
> ON) that
> running VTK through the default Tcl/Tk should work just fine. But  
> this is
> just a guess.
>
> -- 
> Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
> Innovative Management & Technology Services
>
> On 9/25/06 11:03 AM, "Romy Schneider" <romy at tacc.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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).
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