[vtkusers] How to build Qt-4.5.x and vtk-5.3.x for Mac OS X 10.5.5 with 64-bit Cocoa support

[Elvis Dowson]

Hi Sean,
                  Please see my replies below!

Best regards,

Elvis

On Oct 22, 2008, at 2:26 AM, Sean McBride wrote:
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>
>> # environment variables for qt-4.4.3
>> export QTROOT=/Developer/Applications/Qt-4.5.0
>> export QT_PLUGIN_PATH=/Developer/Applications/Qt-4.5.0/plugins/ 
>> designer
>
> Did you choose these paths or did the Qt people?  It seems like a bad
> choice, since /Developer is reserved for Xcode.  Somewhere in ~ would
> probably be better.

I chose this path myself, since I want to keep all my developer tools  
organized under /Developer, including Xcode.

I specified QTROOT in my ~.profile as an environment variable. The VTK  
configure process picks up everything else
for Qt with no problem! :-)

>
>> VTK_USE_64BIT_IDS=ON
>
> Is that really needed?  Or did you turn it on because it has 64bit in
> the name? :)
>

:-) I just chose it because of the name. Not sure what impact it has  
on the build process though!