[vtkusers] problems building VTK on 64 bit machine

[Alfonso Castro Martínez]

You have to add -fPIC in CMAKE_C_FLAGS and CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS when you 
configure VTK with ccmake.

Alfonso Castro Martinez
Faculty of Computer Science
University of A Coruna
Spain

Anja Ende escribió:
> Hi,
>
> I have built VTK a few times before on 64 bit machine but this time 
> around I got the following error:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: 
> /home/anja/development/VTK/bin/libvtkRendering.a(vtkActor.o): 
> relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when 
> making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> /home/anja/development/VTK/bin/libvtkRendering.a: could not read 
> symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [bin/libQVTKWidgetPlugin.so] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [GUISupport/Qt/CMakeFiles/QVTKWidgetPlugin.dir/all] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Does someone know how I can resolve this? Do I have to rebuild VTK 
> with the -fPIC flag or do I have to build some other modules with this 
> flag. Never saw this error before and am stuck.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anja
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