[vtkusers] Python and VTK

[Dan Lipsa]

Indeed, that's what you probably need to do. Look at the symbols not found
and search on the web to see what packages they are part of.

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Nick Torenvliet <natorenvliet at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ooops!
>
> Hey Dan, thanks!  It is now working fine - guess I need to bone up on my
> ccmake skills.
>
> Another question then,
>
> A couple of the examples are coughing with:
>
> _tkinter.TclError: couldn't load file "libvtkRenderingPythonTkWidget
> s-8.0.so": libvtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets-8.0.so: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
>
> So to address this I am attempting to rebuild with GROUP_TK set on.
>
> Now I get the following compile error:
> [ 87%] Linking CXX executable ../../../../bin/
> vtkInteractionWidgetsCxxTests
> [ 87%] Built target vtkInteractionWidgetsCxxTests
> Makefile:138: recipe for target 'all' failed
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> I'm going to hunt around and probably install twenty or so random packages
> that look anything like what I find @ 138 but if anyone knows what I need
> to do, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Dan Lipsa <dan.lipsa at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Nick,
>>
>> You should have VTK_PYTHON_VERSION=3 and VTK_WRAP_PYTHON=ON
>> You should use vtkpython. This has all the right paths to see the VTK
>> library.
>>
>> Take a look in your CMakeCache.txt and search for python to see your
>> python related variables. If some point to python2 paths delete them and
>> reconfigure and rebuild your VTK.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Nick Torenvliet <natorenvliet at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm running ubuntu 16.04 with python3.
>>>
>>> After compiling and installing vtk8 the following occurs.
>>>
>>> 1- I have an issue with doxygen / docs during vtk make install
>>>
>>> After make install
>>>
>>> 1- I fire up a python 3 window and can import vtk, but cannot call any
>>> of the vtk functions except for those beginning with __
>>> 2- I fire up my python2 window and cannot import vtk at all
>>> 3- I fire up vtkpython, which looks to be p3.5 and cannot import vtk at
>>> all
>>>
>>> I feel like I'm missing a major step hooking the wrappers up into the
>>> python environment.
>>>
>>> My desired functionality is to have vtk in python 3.5, optimally in a
>>> venv if possible.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
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