[vtkusers] problems with VTK on linux

[Jesús Spí­nola]

(Evan, don't orget to always forward the messages to the mailing list! )

2007/2/7, Evan Stitt <evangstitt at gmail.com>:
>
> OK, I tried various other repositories, all with the same result.  Any
> other thoughts out there?


It seems like there's a bug in the vtk spec file for the mandriva rpm's and
it does not link to the library you need and consequently does not generate
that library ( I think is the VolumeRendering one ). Report the bug to
mandriva or to the contributor of those packages.


thanks again.
>
>
> Jesús Spí­nola wrote:
> > Which rpm packages have you used and which version of vtk are you
> > using? I had the same error a year ago with one rpm packages. I think
> > they were from rpmfind.net <http://rpmfind.net>. It was just a bug in
> > the rpm building that didn't link to the Rendering library or
> > something similar. There are rpm packages for vtk 5.0 in the
> > repositories for Mandriva and they should work ok.
> >
> > 2007/2/4, Evan Stitt <evangstitt at gmail.com
> > <mailto:evangstitt at gmail.com>>:
> >
> >     Hello,
> >
> >     I installed VTK on my linux machine (Mandriva 2007).  All went well,
> >     except I'm getting strange results when I try to compile a program.
> >     When I try to create a new  vtkVolumeRayCastCompositeFunction object
> >     with the following line:
> >     vtkVolumeRayCastCompositeFunction *compositeFunction =
> >     vtkVolumeRayCastCompositeFunction::New();
> >
> >     I get the following error at compile time:
> >     undefined reference to `vtkVolumeRayCastCompositeFunction::New()'
> >
> >     The same thing happens with vtkVolumeRayCastMapper.  I have included
> >     header files for both of them.  The strange thing is, the exact same
> >     syntax works fine for other objects, such as the renderer, the
> render
> >     window and the interactor.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >     thanks in advance.
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