[vtkusers] Python Bindings on OSX?

Sensei senseiwa at gmail.com
Thu Jul 22 04:52:37 EDT 2010


On Jul 21, 2010, at 3:10pm, David Gobbi wrote:

> Again, I cannot offer insight into the RPATH or install issues, but I
> can give some more information about
> ibvtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets.dylib.  This library is not a not a
> typical library, it is actually a loadable Tk module.  For it to be
> loaded, it must be placed somewhere it either Python's module path, or
> somewhere in Tcl's module path.  The RPATH has no effect on whether
> this particular library is loaded, since python loads it manually.
> 
> The best place for it to be installed is wherever the python .so files
> are installed.  If it is put in with the .so files, then it should be
> loaded when it is needed.


Unfortunately, that wasn't sufficient to make the trick. However, setting PYTHONPATH made my day. Maybe this was completely obvious to all of you, but not to me :)

Cheers!




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