[vtkusers] How to use built vtk with python

[Eric E. Monson]

On Windows, does capitalization matter for those environment variables? On my non-Windows systems they need to be all caps...

-Eric

On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:04 PM, Jothybasu K Selvaraj wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Now I am able to compile vtk 5.7 with python wrapping and it work fine
> with vtkpython.exe. But when I try import vtk in python editor
> 
> it throws
> 
> File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
>  File "C:\Program
> Files\VTK\lib\site-packages\vtk-5.7.0-py2.6.egg\vtk\__init__.py", line
> 41, in <module>
>    from common import *
>  File "C:\Program
> Files\VTK\lib\site-packages\vtk-5.7.0-py2.6.egg\vtk\common.py", line
> 9, in <module>
>    from vtkCommonPython import *
> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.
> 
> I have path(sys var) to "C:\Python26;C:\Program Files\VTK\bin" and
> pythonpath(user var) to "C:\Program Files\VTK\bin;C:\Program
> Files\VTK\lib\site-packages."
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jothy
> 
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Jothybasu K Selvaraj
> <jothybasu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Going through this interesting link
>> http://www.viz.tamu.edu/courses/viza658/08spring/tutorials/WinVTKInstall.html.
>> 
>> Let you know if it works.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jothy
>> 
>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:28 PM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Charl Botha <c.p.botha at tudelft.nl>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 29 March 2010 16:13, Eric E. Monson <emonson at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
>>>>> Is there someone who uses VTK and Python on Windows who could summarize
>>>>> the
>>>>> necessary PATH and PYTHONPATH settings (and anything else required)?
>>>>> Right now the Unix settings are up on the Tutorials Wiki that David
>>>>> Doria
>>>>> sent the link to, but if you search around for the Windows version it's
>>>>> a
>>>>> little hard to piece it together from a lot of old postings (and I only
>>>>> have
>>>>> experience on Linux and Mac).
>>>> 
>>>> My binaries page has a short explanation at the end:
>>>> 
>>>> http://cpbotha.net/2009/08/13/python-2-6-enabled-vtk-5-4-windows-binaries/
>>>> 
>>>> You need to add VTK\bin to the PATH, and VTK\bin;VTK\lib\site-packages
>>>> to the PYTHONPATH.
>>>> 
>>>> Clever people use the DRE, this sets everything up for you:
>>>> http://code.google.com/p/devide/wiki/HelpDRE :)
>>>> _
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jothy,
>>> If you figure it out from that, you should definitely add it as a "Windows
>>> configuration" section of the wiki link I sent.
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> David
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