[vtkusers] trying to build VTK 5.10.1 on OSX 10.8

[David Gobbi]

Hi Steve,

You can probably fix your build by setting this in your CMakeCache.txt:

VTK_USE_TK:BOOL=ON

The issue is fairly simple: if cmake finds Tcl/Tk on your system, then
it will automatically try to build the vtkTkRenderWidget (which is
turned off by the above cmake setting).  Unfortunately, though, VTK
5.10.1 is not compatible with tk 8.6, which many systems are shipping
these days.

We prepared a patch for this that we hoped would make it into VTK
5.10.2, but VTK 5.10.2 never happened.  Here is the patch if you want
to apply it yourself:
http://review.source.kitware.com/#/t/2360/

 - David


On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Steve Spicklemire <steve at spvi.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi VTK folks,
>>
>> I'm trying to build VTK 5.10.1 on OSX 10.8, xcode 4.6.2 , gcc 4.2
>>
>> I'm getting the same error discussed here:
>>
>> <http://www.vtk.org/pipermail/vtkusers/2011-October/119722.html>
>>
>>> [ 69%] Building CXX object Rendering/CMakeFiles/vtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets.dir/vtkCocoaTkUtilities.mm.o
>>> In file included from /Users/steve/Downloads/VTK5.10.1/Rendering/vtkCocoaTkUtilities.mm:23:
>>> In file included from /Users/steve/Downloads/VTK5.10.1/Rendering/vtkCocoaTkUtilities.h:34:
>>> In file included from /Users/steve/Downloads/VTK5.10.1/Common/vtkObject.h:41:
>>> In file included from /Users/steve/Downloads/VTK5.10.1/Common/vtkObjectBase.h:43:
>>> In file included from /Users/steve/Downloads/VTK5.10.1/Common/vtkIndent.h:24:
>>> In file included from /Users/steve/Downloads/VTK5.10.1/Common/vtkSystemIncludes.h:40:
>>> In file included from /Users/steve/Downloads/VTK5.10.1/Common/vtkIOStream.h:108:
>>> In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.2.1/backward/strstream:51:
>>> /usr/include/c++/4.2.1/backward/backward_warning.h:32:2: warning: This file includes at least one deprecated or antiquated header. Please consider using one of the 32 headers found in section 17.4.1.2 of
>>>      the C++ standard. Examples include substituting the <X> header for the <X.h> header for C++ includes, or <iostream> instead of the deprecated header <iostream.h>. To disable this warning use
>>>      -Wno-deprecated. [-W#warnings]
>>> #warning This file includes at least one deprecated or antiquated header. \
>>> ^
>>> /Users/steve/Downloads/VTK5.10.1/Rendering/vtkCocoaTkUtilities.mm:57:28: error: no member named 'view' in 'TkWindowPrivate'
>>>  NSView *result = macWin->view;
>>>                   ~~~~~~  ^
>>> 1 warning and 1 error generated.
>>> make[2]: *** [Rendering/CMakeFiles/vtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets.dir/vtkCocoaTkUtilities.mm.o] Error 1
>>> make[1]: *** [Rendering/CMakeFiles/vtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets.dir/all] Error 2
>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> But, unlike this user, the fix doesn't seem to work for me. ;-(
>>
>> I can see that the 'view' member is in fact defined here:
>>
>> aluminum:VTK5.10.1 steve$ grep -C 5 view /System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Headers/tk-private/tkMacOSXInt.h
>> #   endif
>> #endif
>>
>> struct TkWindowPrivate {
>>    TkWindow *winPtr;        /* Ptr to tk window or NULL if Pixmap */
>>    NSView *view;
>>    CGContextRef context;
>>    int xOff;            /* X offset from toplevel window */
>>    int yOff;            /* Y offset from toplevel window */
>>    CGSize size;
>>    HIShapeRef visRgn;        /* Visible region of window */
>>
>> and I've set
>>
>> TK_INCLUDE_PATH:PATH=/System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Headers
>>
>> in CMakeCache.txt. I did a 'make clean' and then 'make', but still I get the error.
>>
>> Any idea what could be going wrong?
>>
>> thanks!
>> -steve