[vtkusers] Solaris 10 x86_64 - vtk build fails

[Sean McBride]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:00:34 +0100, Karl Behler said:

>As far as I understand, the crucial message
>> In file included from /afs/ipp-garching.mpg.de/home/k/kcb/git/vtk/VTK/
>Utilities/vtkhdf5/src/H5make_libsettings.c:46:0:
>> /afs/ipp-garching.mpg.de/home/k/kcb/git/vtk/VTK/Utilities/vtkhdf5/src/
>H5private.h:757:9: error: unknown type name 'off64_t'
>> *** Error code 1
>is raised by a conditional typedef in the mentioned .h-file . So the 
>suspicion comes to me that already the cmake did not recognize correctly 
>the environment not setting a couple of defined variables appropriately.

Does Solaris provide 'off64_t'?  If so, which include is needed?  Anyway, this looks like a problem with HDF5.  Maybe try downloading and building HDF5 itself?

>Has anybody recently managed to build vtk under Solaris 10 or 11 x86_64? 
>What compiler is recommended? What environment variables to preset? What 
>command line options recommended?
>Any help appreciated.

I don't see a Solaris dashboard, which is what's needed to keep it working.

Cheers,

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