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

[James Overly]

Thanks. We need to modify VTK anyway for our project so
I doubt this will be an issue. I'll pass it in to the developers.

Jim

On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 10:48 -0600, David Gobbi wrote:
> Here's a little hint:
> 
> 
> In Rendering/OpenGL/CMakeLists.txt find the section labeled "#
> Configuration for vtkOpenGLExtensionManager" change this:
> 
> 
> elseif(APPLE)
>   set(VTK_USE_APPLE_LOADER 1)
>   set(VTK_USE_CORE_GRAPHICS 1)
> 
> 
> to this:
> 
> 
> elseif(APPLE AND NOT VTK_USE_X)
>   set(VTK_USE_APPLE_LOADER 1)
>   set(VTK_USE_CORE_GRAPHICS 1)
> 
> 
> I don't know if that will work, because I haven't tested it, but it
> should move you in the right direction.
> 
> 
>  - David
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 9:39 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 9:23 AM, James Overly
>         <joverly at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
>                 It looks a little better but now I'm seeing:
>         
>         
>         These CGL calls are invalid for X11 OpenGL.  You'll have to
>         modify your copy of VTK so that it checks OpenGL capabilities
>         on Mac the same was as it usually does for Linux.
>         
>         
>                 Let me know if you need any more information.
>         
>         
>         You're going to be pretty much on your own, about all I can
>         say now is "good luck".  
>          
>          - David
>         
>         
>         
>         
>                 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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