[vtkusers] Fwd: Building VTK: undefined reference to `vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow::SetDisplayId(_XDisplay*)

[Andrew Maclean]

Hi Pat,

It worked!
Thank you very much for this advice.

Regards
  Andrew

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:31 AM, pat marion <pat.marion at kitware.com> wrote:

> It's a CMake + Ubuntu 11.04 issue.  In the latest version of Ubuntu (Debian
> actually) they included multiarch support.  Many libraries are no longer
> located in /usr/lib, now they are in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu.  This causes
> cmake to fail when it searches for things like X11.
>
> To solve this, I edited UnixPaths.cmake in my cmake 2.8.4 install and
> appended the path /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu to the variables
> CMAKE_SYSTEM_LIBRARY_PATH and CMAKE_PLATFORM_IMPLICIT_LINK_DIRECTORIES.
>
>
> Here is the cmake bug report:
> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12037
>
> Pat
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Andrew Maclean <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Like you I have searched the web and asked on the VTK developers group to
>> no avail. I have not found a solution at all.
>> NVidia 270.4106 is the one that is currently in use for Ubuntu 11.04.
>>
>> Oddly enough if you download the paraview binary it works Ok, clearly it
>> hasn't been compiled under Ubuntu 11.04.
>>
>> So I am now driven to writing a filter that builds a polydata structure
>> saving it as a vtp file and then using ParaView.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>    Andrew
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Jennifer Horsman <jlhorsman at lbl.gov>wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew,
>>>
>>> Did you ever find a solution to the problem of building VTK in Ubuntu
>>> 11.04? I am getting the same errors as you and have tried everyone's
>>> solutions, but nothing works. Originally, I had just done an upgrade from
>>> 10.10 to 11.04 and VTK worked fine. I was having other issues that prompted
>>> me to start over with a clean install and now I am having troubles. Perhaps
>>> there are issues with some of the newer packages.
>>>
>>> Also, Nvidia did come out recently with new drivers for Ubuntu 11.04
>>> (actually, I think they are just for any Linux) that apparently fix some
>>> problems with the X server:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Nvidia-Linux-Driver-Supports-Ubuntu-11-04-196264.shtml
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jennifer
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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