[vtkusers] Problems Installing VTK-Python on OSX

[Ranveer Aggarwal]

Hi David,

I looked all over CMakeCache.txt and didn't find any instance of "python2".
Any other possible fix?

If not, I'll try Bernard's solution.

Thanks for your suggestions :)

On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 at 19:05 David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ranveer,
>
> The error "PyThreadState_Get: no current thread" almost always means that
> VTK was linked to the wrong version of Python.  I know you said that you
> checked this, but I recommend that you load CMakeCache.txt into a text
> editor and do a thorough search to make sure that "python2" does not appear
> anywhere.  My own OS X system builds VTK against Python 3.5.
>
>  - David
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:25 AM, Ranveer Aggarwal <
> ranveeraggarwal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have been struggling with this problem for quite some time now. Here's
>> what I did.
>>
>> 1. Downloaded source tar.gz and untarred it.
>> 2. Went to the downloaded folder and made a build folder and ran ccmake
>> .. in it.
>> 3. Set Python Wrapping to on and set Python version as 3.5. Went to
>> advanced options and appropriately set all the Python 3.5 libraries.
>> 4. Generated the cmake and ran it.
>> 5. Ran make and then make install
>> 6. Added
>> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/vtk/"
>> to PYTHONPATH.
>>
>> Now, when I run python3 and do an `import vtk`, I get
>>
>> Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread
>> Segmentation fault: 11
>>
>> and Python crashes. Any idea why this could be happening? Any help would
>> be highly appreciated.
>> --
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Ranveer Aggarwal
>> Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
>> http://ranveeraggarwal.com
>>
> --

Sincerely,
Ranveer Aggarwal
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
http://ranveeraggarwal.com
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