[vtkusers] VTK installation in osX

Eric E. Monson emonson at cs.duke.edu
Thu Jun 24 22:05:56 EDT 2010 

Hey Akemi,

(Please respond to the whole list so everyone can contribute.)

First, what "didn't work" about the x86_64 architecture?

That "permission denied" error is strange... I feel like I've run into something like that when compiling ParaView before, but that was when it was generating the final application, not one of the supporting libraries, and it wasn't a CMake error...

Were you trying a fresh build directory during these last attempts? Sometimes something gets screwed up and it's better to start fresh after you have been having problems and changing configurations.

Hopefully it will be obvious to someone with more experience than I have.
-Eric


On Jun 24, 2010, at 8:59 PM, Tyler, Akemi wrote:

> Hi Eric,
> 
> Thank you for your suggestion.
> 
> I followed your directions and built it without Python. It worked. (CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES: x86_64 didn't work. So I left it blank.)
> Now, with Python the building process stopped at the same place as before. 
> 
> "make VERBOSE=1" gave me the following in the last section:
> 
> [ 73%] Built target vtkGraphicsPythonD
> make -f Graphics/CMakeFiles/vtkGraphicsPython.dir/build.make Graphics/CMakeFiles/vtkGraphicsPython.dir/depend
> cd /Users/akemityler/Develop/VTKBuild && "/Applications/CMake 2.8-1.app/Contents/bin/cmake" -E cmake_depends "Unix Makefiles" /Users/akemityler/Develop/VTK /Users/akemityler/Develop/VTK/Graphics /Users/akemityler/Develop/VTKBuild /Users/akemityler/Develop/VTKBuild/Graphics /Users/akemityler/Develop/VTKBuild/Graphics/CMakeFiles/vtkGraphicsPython.dir/DependInfo.cmake --color=
> Dependee "/Users/akemityler/Develop/VTKBuild/Graphics/CMakeFiles/vtkGraphicsPython.dir/DependInfo.cmake" is newer than depender "/Users/akemityler/Develop/VTKBuild/Graphics/CMakeFiles/vtkGraphicsPython.dir/depend.internal".
> Dependee "/Users/akemityler/Develop/VTKBuild/Graphics/CMakeFiles/CMakeDirectoryInformation.cmake" is newer than depender "/Users/akemityler/Develop/VTKBuild/Graphics/CMakeFiles/vtkGraphicsPython.dir/depend.internal".
> Scanning dependencies of target vtkGraphicsPython
> CMake Error: Cannot open file for write: /Users/akemityler/Develop/VTKBuild/Graphics/CMakeFiles/vtkGraphicsPython.dir/depend.make.tmp
> CMake Error: : System Error: Permission denied
> make[2]: *** [Graphics/CMakeFiles/vtkGraphicsPython.dir/depend] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [Graphics/CMakeFiles/vtkGraphicsPython.dir/all] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> I am using:
> OS 10.6.4
> VTK 5.6.0
> cmake 2.8-1
> Python 2.6
> 
> I am not sure about my Python condition. My hard drive got collapsed recently, and it is replaced by a new unit. Some programs was recovered by data recovery. I think my Python 2.6 is one of them. But it might not be in the perfect condition. I was happily using VTK before this incident happened with OS 10.5 and Python 2.6.
> 
> Thank you again for your help.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Eric E. Monson <emonson at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
> Hey Akemi,
> 
> I'm not sure what the problem is exactly, but I would advise starting with a more minimal build first, and then if they succeed you can turn on more options and rebuild (and it won't take nearly as long the next times). 
> 
> Here are the minimal commands that I would do to compile the current VTK (git master from last week) with Python wrapping on OS X 10.6.4 (leaving everything else with default values as they come up in ccmake, and using the system Python install):
> 
> (after git-ing or un-tarring the source)
> cd VTK
> mkdir build
> cd build
> ccmake ..
> c 
> (wait for configure, then change these options)
> BUILD_SHARED_LIBS: ON
> BUILD_TESTING: OFF
> CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: Release
> CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES: x86_64
> VTK_WRAP_PYTHON: ON
> c
> c
> g
> make
> 
> By default mine comes up with VTK_USE_RPATH: ON, CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: 10.6, VTK_USE_COCOA: ON. You might want to try even not turning on the Python wrapping at first just to make sure you can get through the build without it, and then run ccmake again to turn it on and try again.
> 
> If you still can't get through it with python on, then after it fails, run 
> make VERBOSE=1
> and let us know what the last command is that it fails on, the error message, and the VTK version you're trying.
> 
> Good luck,
> -Eric
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Eric E Monson
> Duke Visualization Technology Group
> 
> 
> On Jun 24, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Tyler, Akemi wrote:
> 
>> Hi vtk users,
>> 
>> I am trying to install VTK in my apple computer and experiencing a trouble. I have OS10.6 and Python 2.6 in my computer.
>> 
>> I follow instructions on :
>> http://www.macresearch.org/installing_vtk_on_mac_os_x
>> and 
>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/Cocoa_VTK
>> 
>> In addition to the changes on these web pages, I put:
>> 
>> //Build VTK examples.
>> BUILD_EXAMPLES:BOOL=ON
>> 
>> //Build Verdict with shared libraries.
>> BUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON
>> 
>> //For backwards compatibility, what version of CMake commands and
>> // syntax should this version of CMake try to support.
>> CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY:
>> STRING=2.4
>> 
>> //Minimum OS X version to target for deployment (at runtime); newer
>> // APIs weak linked. Set to empty string for default value.
>> CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET:
>> STRING=10.6
>> 
>> //Path to a program.
>> PYTHON_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=/usr/bin/python2.6
>> 
>> //Wrap VTK classes into the Python language.
>> VTK_WRAP_PYTHON:BOOL=ON
>> 
>> //Wrap VTK classes into the TCL language.
>> VTK_WRAP_TCL:BOOL=ON
>> 
>> 
>> The error message I get in the building stage is: 
>> [ 69%] Building CXX object Rendering/CMakeFiles/vtkRenderingPythonD.dir/vtkRenderingPythonInit.cxx.o
>> Linking CXX shared library ../bin/libvtkRenderingPythonD.dylib
>> [ 69%] Built target vtkRenderingPythonD
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>> 
>> I tried different versions of VTK and Python combination. But none of them worked.
>> What would you suggest to fix this problem?
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