[vtkusers] how to install vtk on a Mac?

Sebastien Jourdain sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com
Sun Jan 6 09:51:38 EST 2013


Not really as I don't know what you are doing for that "infinite wait
loop"...
What do you do when you say. "I call VTK" ?

Thanks,

Seb


On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Ilan <ilan.tal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Seb,
> I decided that even better would be to define the install location to the
> target itself. Your original suggestion was:
> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX     /.../vtk/install
> This I changed to
> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX     /Applications/Fiji.app/lib/macosx
> The exact path changes according to the operating system. On my Linux
> system
> it is /home/ilan/Fiji.app/lib/linux32. In my Linux system everything works
> fine if I copy all the *.so files into this directory. In the appropriate
> Windows path I copy the dll files, which also works.
> The Mac builds 3 folders into the path destination: bin, include and lib.
> Inside lib is vtk-5.10 and inside that are the dylib files. The dylib files
> I copied to the "root" of the path together with the 4 files inside bin.
> That is the only thing which makes sense to me. When I call VTK, I verified
> that the path is indeed /Applications/Fiji.app/lib/macosx but it just goes
> into an infinite wait loop and produces no results.
>
> Any idea what I am doing wrong?
> Thanks,
> Ilan
>
>
>
>
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://vtk.1045678.n5.nabble.com/how-to-install-vtk-on-a-Mac-tp5717768p5717818.html
> Sent from the VTK - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> _______________________________________________
> Powered by www.kitware.com
>
> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at
> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>
> Please keep messages on-topic and check the VTK FAQ at:
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ
>
> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.vtk.org/pipermail/vtkusers/attachments/20130106/c14e7ba4/attachment.htm>


More information about the vtkusers mailing list