Ondrej, The traditional way of building VTK on a Mac is to build it as a Cocoa or Carbon library. This means a couple of things:
* Python must be built as a framework. * The Mac native GUI is used, not X11. * You are using all of Apples OpenGL libraries. If you stick to these assumptions, getting VTK to build on a Mac is not that difficult and I can look around to find the options I pass to cmake. But, if I understand this correctly, you are: * Using the non-Framework Python spkg * Trying to use X11 instead of Cocoa/Carbon? (you can't use Cocoa/Carbon if you are using a non-Framework Python build) * Trying to use a custom built mesa package for offscreen rendering. Is this correct? I don't know if this is possible. The folks who have the most experience with this are the VisIt developers - I think they build VisIt with offscreen rendering and use the native OS GUI (through Qt). I will contact them to see if they have this setup working. I will report back. Cheers, Brian On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Ondrej Certik<ond...@certik.cz> wrote: > > Hi, > > the optional vtk package fails to buid on Mac, it fails to configure. > I didn't like the spkg install much, so I joined the Mac and linux > version and it now configures and starts compiling, but then it fails > with: > > http://code.google.com/p/femhub/issues/detail?id=34#c3 > > I think I need to somehow use a framework for Python on Mac but I > really have no clue so far how this works. The updated package is > here: > > http://code.google.com/p/femhub/downloads/list > > e.g.: http://femhub.googlecode.com/files/vtk-cvs-20090316-minimal.p1.spkg > > Also I fixed the mesa package, here is the updated one: > http://femhub.googlecode.com/files/mesa-7.4.4.p2.spkg > Changes I did: > * updated to mesa 7.4.4 > * uses mesa's configure script (thus the same easy command works out > of the box on mac and both 32bit and 64bit linuxes) > > I checked that on linux, this updated mesa package still works just > fine with vtk, mayavi and offscreen rendering. > > If you want all in one package, just follow the instructions here: > > http://femhub.org/ > > e.g. this works nice on linux, but fails on Mac in the middle of the > VTK build, see above. > > So I think the mesa package is fine now, only the VTK package still > needs more work. Any help is appreciated. > > Ondrej > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
