[vtkusers] compiling VTK on linux

Fri Apr 18 11:50:38 EDT 2008

You should not need any special compiler flags.  It is more likely
that you are missing some important dev packages.  I have ubuntu 6.06,
so the version numbers might be different for you, but make sure you
have these or the equivalents:

libstdc++6-4.0-dev
libc6-dev
libX11-dev
libgl1-mesa-dev
libglu1-mesa-dev
tcl8.4-dev
tk8.4-dev
sun-java6-jdk

After installing these you should delete your old CMakeCache.txt (or
even the whole VTK binary directory, to be safe) so that the cmake
autodetection will properly catch all the header files that VTK uses.

Note that when you get to the java stage, cmake will not automatically
find the java headers or libraries.  You will have to enter all the
java related CMake flags manually under "advanced"

   David

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Liam K <quantum.leaf at googlemail.com> wrote:
> (sorry for previous blank post)
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the replies.
>
> Indeed, i am hoping to use VTK with the java wrappers, but at the moment the
> problem i'm having is compiling the binaries. I get the same errors even if
> i disable to java wrapper option in cmake.
>  I'm sure this must be a compiler flag option or something similar...
>
> Liam
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Liam K <quantum.leaf at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:17 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > 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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