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

[David Gobbi]

VTK would have to install the python vtk module to
/Library/Python/2.x/site-packages to make sure that it is in python's
path, but by design, VTK installs the module in the
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX which is /usr/local/.  This is intentional,
because we don't want anything to be installed outside of the chosen
install prefix.

So the best approach for you is to make a link in
/Library/Python/2.x/site-packages to wherever the python vtk module is
actually installed.  Another option is to clear the
VTK_PYTHON_SETUP_ARGS when you run ccmake so that the module will be
installed to wherever python thinks is best, which should be
/Library/Python/2.x/site-packages.

   David


On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Christopher Denter
<dennda at the-space-station.com> wrote:
> Hello VTK users,
>
> so after I found out how to use CVS (I'm more used to the less ancient
> hg/git/svn/bzr) I checked out both cmake and VTK, built cmake, made sure no
> old cmake is left on the path and built VTK with that. Now I'm finally able
> to `import vtk` in python. For that to work I needed to add the
> site-packages folder the vtk module resides in to the PYTHONPATH myself,
> though. Is that intended?
>
> I'm truly grateful for all the help.
>
>
>        Christopher
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