[vtkusers] Build VTK 5.8 with TCL wrap on on MacOS X 10.6.7

[David Gobbi]

Hi Rick,

Apple's tcl comes installed on OS X 10.6, they provide two versions of
tcl side-by-side... tcl 8.4 (Carbon) and tcl 8.5 (Cocoa).  The default
is tcl 8.5.

To build VTK with the default Tcl, all of your TK and TCL CMake
variables should point to the default system frameworks for Tcl/Tk:

TK_INCLUDE_PATH:PATH=/System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Headers

If these variables point to somewhere in /Library instead of
/System/Library then you are using a third-party Tcl instead of
Apple's Tcl.

The ActiveState Tcl 8.5 package is Carbon. Do not use it.  Stick with
the Tcl/Tk that come with OS X.  CMake will find the system Tcl/Tk
frameworks automatically if you have XCode installed.

 - David


On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Rick Frank <rickfrank at me.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks for the help...
>
> Rick-Development-MacBook:bin rfrank$ tclsh
> % info patchlevel
> 8.5.7
> %
>
> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk
>
>
>
> when you say "Apple's " tcl package, is that different from ActiveState's?
>
> Where do I get Apple's tcl, or was / is it installed in 10.6?
>
> My original run of CMake said that there was no TCL/TK installed...
>
> On Oct 27, 2011, at 11:04 AM, David Gobbi wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:04:50 -0400, Rick Frank said:
>>>
>>>> When I try to build VTK 5.8 with TCK wrap on I get the following error:
>>>>
>>>> ../VTK.5.8/Rendering/vtkCocoaTkUtilities.mm: error: Semantic Issue: No
>>>> member named 'view' in 'TkWindowPrivate'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Did I miss some other setting?
>>>
>>> I'm not at all sure, but you might try building with VTK's Carbon option instead of the default Cocoa option.  I think the TCL stuff uses Carbon.
>>
>> Apple's Tcl package switched over to Cocoa in OS X 10.6.  Likewise,
>> VTK switched its vtkTkRenderWidget over to Cocoa in VTK 5.6.  I know,
>> because I was the one who made the changes.
>>
>> Most likely, Frank is either using the OS X 10.5 SDK, or is using the
>> Tk 8.4 framework.  On Snow Leopard, the Tk 8.5 framework should be
>> used, and VTK_USE_COCOA should be On.
>>
>> - David
>
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