[vtkusers] After compiling and installing, there is no vtk binary?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Wed May 13 12:13:15 EDT 2009


> I followed the steps to compile and install VTK from the 'Readme.html' file
> in the source package I downloaded.
> I followed the steps to compile and install, and everything seemed to go
> fine.
> But I cannot find the 'vtk' executable?
> The readme says it should be in the bin directory where it was complied.
> There directories 'bin','include' and 'lib' in the directory where I
> specified VTK to be installed, but the only executables in the bin directory
> are 'vtkEncodeString' and 'lprog'. Where is the 'vtk' executable?
>

VTK is a library not an executable. There will be several executables
in the bin folder but those are example programs.

John



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