[vtkusers] Compiling VTK with Tcl/Tk on OS X

David Gobbi david.gobbi at gmail.com
Mon Feb 24 19:45:07 EST 2014


Hi Jameson,

You are correct, the PrivateHeaders folder is just a symbolic link that
leads to Headers/tk-private.  My guess is that the link is supposed to
be created automatically when XCode is installed.

  David

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:49 PM, jmerkow <jmerkow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok,
>
> Thank you for your help!  It turns out for some reason My machine doesn't
> have the /System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/PrivateHeaders dir (I
> suspect that this is a symbolic link)
> And CMake was putting the a path internal to VTK for this path.  I changed
> it to /System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Headers/tk-private (this
> directory has a lot of the OS X related tk stuff.
>
> I don't think I did anything strange to my system (I don't mess around in
> Frameworks at all). However bc CMake found a suitable folder internally it
> never caused an error for CMake, and not until about 90% into the build
> either.
>
> Just a tip for anyone that runs into this problem!
>
> Thanks
> -Jameson


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