[vtkusers] X11 CMake Errors on Mac

[David Gobbi]

I should also mention: if you are using OS X 10.8, then you should
be using VTK 5.10.1 rather than VTK 5.10.  The .1 release included
some small fixes for OS X 10.8.

 - David


On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> Go with Qt 4.8.  Qt is what most people use with VTK.  Install the dmg
> file from digia (qt-mac-opensource-4.8.4.dmg) and then build your VTK
> with these CMake options:
>
> BUILD_SHARED=ON
> VTK_USE_COCOA=ON
> VTK_USE_QT=ON
>
> That's all that I do when I build VTK with Qt.  The VTK build on OS X
> 10.6 through 10.8 is x86_64 by default, which works fine with the Qt
> binary package that I mentioned above.  If you have build/link issues
> related to Qt, check the QT-related variables in VTK's CMakeCache.txt
> to make sure that it is finding the right versions of all the Qt
> libraries (if you have multiple versions of Qt installed on your
> system, this could be an issue).
>
>  - David
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:38 AM, bberkowi <benjamin-berkowitz at uiowa.edu> wrote:
>> Thanks, that makes sense.  I was hoping that I would be able to use KWWidgets
>> to build a simple GUI, but it seems like that may not be the case.  I also
>> haven't had luck with VTK for use with either Qt 4.8 or 5.0.  Do you know of
>> any alternatives?