[vtkusers] OSX Mountain Lion - shared libraries

[David Gobbi]

Hi Aaron,

When you build VTK, or when you build your own programs against the
VTK libraries, cmake bakes the load path into the libraries and the
executables that it produces.  So in general, no paths have to be set.
 The run-time libraries will be found automatically.

CMake will strip out these baked-in library paths when you run a make
install, so that the installed VTK programs will only search the
system library paths, rather than searching your build directory for
the libraries.  So if you install libraries to some location that is
not in the system library path, then you will need to use
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH or some other path-setting mechanism.

More information (general info, not specific to OS X) is available on
the wiki: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_RPATH_handling

  David



On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Boxer, Aaron <Aaron.Boxer at uhn.ca> wrote:
> Thanks, David.  Is there anything special I need to do to use shared libraries (besides the CMake switch ?)
> My current install directory is the VTK build directory - perhaps this needs to change so that the library gets recognized?
>
> Currently I am linking to static libraries.
>
> Aaron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gobbi [mailto:david.gobbi at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:41 PM
> To: Boxer, Aaron
> Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] OSX Mountain Lion - shared libraries
>
> Hi Aaron,
>
> You should be able to build VTK master with any version of OS X from
> 10.5 through to 10.9, with either static or with shared libraries.
>
> My default builds have always been shared builds.   It has never the
> case that VTK was limited to static builds on any operating system, as far as I am aware.
>
>   David
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Boxer, Aaron <Aaron.Boxer at uhn.ca> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> All of the guides to building VTK on OSX that I have seen recommend
>> that shared libraries be turned off.
>>
>> Is this still the case? Can I build VTK master on mountain lion with
>> xcode 5 and shared libraries turned on?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Aaron
>
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