[vtkusers] Freetype problem when compiling vtk nightly on Mac OS X 10.4.8

[Mike Jackson]

On Jan 3, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Alexander Antonov wrote:

>> I think we need to know more.  Are you using your own freetype  
>> library,
>> or the freetype code that comes with vtk?  What kind of vtk build are
>> you doing?  Carbon? Cocoa? PPC? Intel? gcc? icc?
>
> I'm using vtk's freetype library and doing a ppc build with gcc. I  
> tried both an X and a Cocoa build, with the same error.
> It seems the culprit might be a header in the vtk freetype  
> directory "vtk_freetype_mangle.h" which renames many FT symbols to  
> start with "_vtk_freetype_", but I'm not sure what I could do about  
> this.
>
> I forgot to mention that I've built the current vtk release version  
> (5.0.2) for X without getting this error.
> However, my Java bindings don't work there, i.e., whenever the  
> vtkPanel window tries to render I get a JVM crash, which is why I'm  
> trying the CVS version.

Can you have java output to an X Window on OS X? I thought that the  
jvm would only use Cocoa type windows..

>
>> Maybe you can add "-Y 1455" to the linker flags, to get a more  
>> detailed
>> error message from the compiler/linker
>
> Here it is – Let me know if any other info would be helpful
>
> Alex
>
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