[vtkusers] VTK doesn't work on OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard

[Berk Geveci]

Hi Christopher,

I regularly use ParaView on Snow Leopard. It builds full VTK with
Python bindings. It works with both Carbon and Cocoa. Did you force a
32 bit build when building with Carbon? You need a compiler option
like -m32. Also, did you force Python to run 32 bit? Otherwise, it
expects 64 bit libraries. I forget how to do it - you have to search
for it. Alternatively, you can build with Cocoa 64 bit. I suggest
checking VTK from CVS. I committed some fixes to support Snow Leopard
not too long ago.

-berk

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Christopher Denter
<dennda at the-space-station.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having trouble installing VTK on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
> I tried both vtk5 and vtk-devel from MacPorts but that remainde
> unsuccessfull.
> See http://www.vtk.org/pipermail/vtkusers/2009-October/103081.html
>
> I then tried to compile it myself with the python bindings. That did work
> for the first time, but the python modules couldn't be found when trying to
> import them. When manually changing to the site-packages folder that
> contains the vtk module, running python interactively and trying to import
> vtk, the following error is what I get:
> http://paste.pocoo.org/show/145758/
> I built it with i386. Having read that there seems to be some problem with
> cmake ignoring the i386 option, I also added it to the C and CXX flags as
> "-arch i386". Trying to build *that* (with carbon this time) fails with this
> error:
> http://paste.pocoo.org/show/145762/
>
> Did anybody successfully get VTK with Python wrappers (and carbon) working
> on OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard?
>
> Regards,
> Christopher
>
>
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