[vtkusers] compiling VTK on linux

[David Gobbi]

AFAIK the debian distribution of VTK does not come with java support,
so switching away from Ubuntu is not going to help Liam at all.

Ubuntu may not come with VTK binaries, but it has all of the VTK
dependencies.  Liam will have to install all of the sun-java6 packages
as well as cmake and the dev packages for tcl, tk, etc. but the
process should be straightforward once all the dev packages are there.

Anyone out there with experience specifically in installing VTK-java
on ubuntu?  The last time that I did it was a couple years ago, so I'm
a little rusty.

   David


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Oleksandr Dzyubak <adzyubak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Liam,
>
>  Ubuntu is based on and derived from Debian.
>  Since you are using Ubuntu anyway,  I would recommend you
>  to install Debian Lenny on your Linux box.
>  Lenny has Cmake, Make, ITK,  VTK,  wxWidgets, FLTK, QT(3/4),  Perl,  Tcl/Tk
>  and all what you might need for your development in their repository as
>  binary pre-built packages thus it works right out of the box.
>  Since you are Ubuntu (meaning Debian) user
>  you know how to install needed packages and satisfy all dependencies.
>
>  The good thing is that if you do that, it will save you a lot of time and
> efforts
>  you might spent on first compiling the distribution packages themselves,
>  latter examples, and finally "dependency hell" when you will start
>  "putting all together" in your own application.
>
>  Hope it helps,
>
>  Alex
>
>
>  Liam K wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking for some help in compiling VTK+. I'm hoping to use it with the
> java wrapping for a medical data visualisation project.
> >
> > I'm finding just compiling VTK on my linux box (ubuntu) to be much more
> difficult than i expect.
> > So far i have install cmake and set various option and generated the make
> file.
> >
> > When I run the make file however i get:
> >
> > zoizoi at mangoNupheus:/usr/local/VTK$ make
> > [  0%] Built target vtkParseJava
> > [  0%] Built target vtkWrapJava
> > [  0%] Built target vtksys
> > [  0%] Building CXX object
> Common/CMakeFiles/vtkCommon.dir/vtkDataArraySelection.o
> > /usr/local/VTK/Common/vtkDataArraySelection.cxx:27: error: ISO C++ forbids
> declaration of 'vector' with no type
> > /usr/local/VTK/Common/vtkDataArraySelection.cxx:27: error: invalid use of
> '::'
> > /usr/local/VTK/Common/vtkDataArraySelection.cxx:27: error: expected ';'
> before '<' token
> >
> > ...and then a long long list of errors which it's probably not worth
> posting. This is VTK 5.0.4
> >
> > i have no idea what's causing this as my knowledge of C++ is pretty
> limited. Is there some configure option i need to set to get the compiler to
> be less stringent or something?
> >
> > hope someone can help as i need to get working on this project asap.
> >
> > Liam
> >
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