Ondrej, So I heard back from the VisIt devs and thankfully, they keep really good records of how they build everything. What they go through to build VisIt is insane. But here are the references that I think could help you...
Here is their main page for information about building VisIt: https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/source.html Here is the "build_visit" shell script that will build visit from source (check it out, it is 10000 lines long and crazy!) https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.2/build_visit Most relevant to your situation are the build note for different platforms: https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.2/BUILD_NOTES https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.2/BUILD_NOTES_MacOSX The Mac build notes have a good description of how to build Mesa + VTK on OS X. It is non-trivial and requires patching VTK and its build system. If you have questions about this, I would simply join the visit users list: https://email.ornl.gov/mailman/listinfo/visit-users 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
