[vtkusers] Building VTK 6.3.0 with X11 on Mac El Capitan

[James Overly]

It looks a little better but now I'm seeing:

[ 98%] Building CXX object
Rendering/OpenGL/CMakeFiles/vtkRenderingOpenGL.dir/vtkCoreGraphicsGPUInfoList.cxx.o
Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libvtkRenderingOpenGL-6.3.dylib
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_CGLDescribeRenderer", referenced from:
      vtkCoreGraphicsGPUInfoList::Probe() in
vtkCoreGraphicsGPUInfoList.cxx.o
  "_CGLDestroyRendererInfo", referenced from:
      vtkCoreGraphicsGPUInfoList::Probe() in
vtkCoreGraphicsGPUInfoList.cxx.o
  "_CGLQueryRendererInfo", referenced from:
      vtkCoreGraphicsGPUInfoList::Probe() in
vtkCoreGraphicsGPUInfoList.cxx.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see
invocation)
make[2]: *** [lib/libvtkRenderingOpenGL-6.3.1.dylib] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Rendering/OpenGL/CMakeFiles/vtkRenderingOpenGL.dir/all]
Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Let me know if you need any more information.

Thanks
Jim

On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 10:03 -0400, James Overly wrote:
> Thanks! I'm giving that a try.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 17:52 -0600, David Gobbi wrote:
> > Hi James,
> > 
> > 
> > Assuming that you have installed xquartz and that you have all the X11
> > headers and libraries in /opt/X11, you have to tell cmake to use the
> > OpenGL that comes with X11:
> > 
> > 
> > OPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=/opt/X11/include
> > OPENGL_gl_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/opt/X11/lib/libGL.dylib
> > OPENGL_glu_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/opt/X11/lib/libGLU.dylib
> > 
> > 
> > Otherwise VTK will link to the framework OpenGL, which doesn't include
> > glx.
> > 
> > 
> > Even with the above, there are no guarantees that VTK will work with
> > X11 on OS X.  But it should at least get you past the link errors.
> > 
> > 
> >  - David
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:03 PM, David E DeMarle
> > <dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> >         
> >         On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:17 PM, James Overly
> >         <joverly at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >                 -DVTK_USE_X:BOOL=ON \
> >                 -DVTK_USE_CARBON:BOOL=OFF \ 
> >                 
> >                 -DVTK_USE_COCOA:BOOL=OFF \
> >                 
> >         
> >         Why not Cocoa? VTK over X11 is strongly discouraged on Mac.
> >         
> >         David E DeMarle
> >         Kitware, Inc.
> >         R&D Engineer
> >         21 Corporate Drive
> >         Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> >         Phone: 518-881-4909
> > 
> > 
> 
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