[vtkusers] how do I know if vtk is installed?

[Sebastien Jourdain]

Hi Ilan,

good luck with that. The vtk.jar is not enough... You will need the
native vtk/Java library which you will force each user to build from
source...
And building C++ on different platform is not a task for any user...

Seb

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Ilan <ilan.tal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your patience Seb,
> Clearly I want to do whatever is the easiest and most straightforward thing
> to do. I distribute my software as a jar file with a lib folder with
> additional jar files. It doesn't look like a good idea to embed the vtk
> software in the lib folder for example - it would be better to have a link
> to kitware so the user always gets the latest software and not something I
> downloaded ages ago.
> I clearly need to have a jar file with the java wrappers and I assume this
> is the vtk.jar file. It isn't clear to me that if I distribute my jar file,
> that it would somehow provide the proper path. That has to come from the
> installation of the user vtk, wherever he has put it. How does my jar file
> know where it is? The System.loadLibrary needs how to do something
> meaningful. As soon as I understand how it is supposed to work I can try it
> on a foreign computer and sees what happens.
>
> Ilan
>
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