[sage-devel] Re: vtk

2011-02-19 Thread Jaap Spies
Mag Gam wrote: Has anyone compiled VTK, http://www.vtk.org/, into sage? I would like to compile this but would need some assistance and/or tips. This is very old, but it used to work: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/jsp/SPKGS/ETS/ Somehow I lost interest, so you are mostly on your own.

[sage-devel] Re: vtk

2011-02-18 Thread Volker Braun
There is an experimental spkg for vtk. But I think it needs some serious updating; last time I tired it, it did not compile on my machine. Though you might want to give it a try. sage: experimental_packages() ([], ['4ti2.p0', 'PyQt4-4.6.2', 'PyVTK-0.4.74', 'QScintilla2-2.4', 'asymptote-1.29', '

[sage-devel] Re: vtk on Mac

2009-08-28 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
Hi, Ondrej Certik wrote: > we spent about 6 hours with Prabhu trying to install VTK in Sage on > Mac on the scipy09. We failed and Prabhu suggested to just use the > framework build of python. I have some good news on this front. This morning I got mayavi working offscreen on bsd.math.w.e. I

[sage-devel] Re: vtk on Mac

2009-08-26 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Brian Granger wrote: > >> Wait, so is a key point that if one builds Python for Sage as a >> framework, then Python is no longer contained in SAGE_ROOT/local/? >> Is that what you're saying?   I can see numerous problems and >> confusion arising as a result.   Hope

[sage-devel] Re: vtk on Mac

2009-08-26 Thread Brian Granger
> Wait, so is a key point that if one builds Python for Sage as a > framework, then Python is no longer contained in SAGE_ROOT/local/? > Is that what you're saying? I can see numerous problems and > confusion arising as a result. Hopefully it can still be in > SAGE_ROOT/local, and maybe there i

[sage-devel] Re: vtk on Mac

2009-08-26 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Tim Lahey wrote: > > > On Aug 26, 2009, at 2:54 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > >> >> Any thoughts on how this would impact having multiple versions of >> Sage on the same machine? What about being able to move them around/ >> delete them? >> >> - Robert > > > New fra

[sage-devel] Re: vtk on Mac

2009-08-26 Thread Tim Lahey
On Aug 26, 2009, at 2:54 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > Any thoughts on how this would impact having multiple versions of > Sage on the same machine? What about being able to move them around/ > delete them? > > - Robert New frameworks generally live in /Library/Frameworks, although I expect t

[sage-devel] Re: vtk on Mac

2009-08-25 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Aug 25, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Tim Lahey wrote: > > > On Aug 25, 2009, at 2:00 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Tim Lahey >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> One of the nice things about Framework builds is that they're nice >>> and >>> contained. Everything is in one directory

[sage-devel] Re: vtk on Mac

2009-08-25 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:21 AM, William Stein wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Tim Lahey wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Aug 25, 2009, at 2:00 PM, William Stein wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Tim Lahey wr

[sage-devel] Re: vtk on Mac

2009-08-25 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Tim Lahey wrote: >> >> >> On Aug 25, 2009, at 2:00 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Tim Lahey >>> wrote: One of the nice things about Framework builds is

[sage-devel] Re: vtk on Mac

2009-08-25 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Tim Lahey wrote: > > > On Aug 25, 2009, at 2:00 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Tim Lahey >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> One of the nice things about Framework builds is that they're nice >>> and >>> contained. Everything is in one direct

[sage-devel] Re: vtk on Mac

2009-08-25 Thread Tim Lahey
On Aug 25, 2009, at 2:00 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Tim Lahey > wrote: >> >> >> One of the nice things about Framework builds is that they're nice >> and >> contained. Everything is in one directory, much like Sage. So, all >> the >> python details would

[sage-devel] Re: vtk on Mac

2009-08-25 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Tim Lahey wrote: > > > On Aug 25, 2009, at 1:46 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> I'm fine with switching to the framework build for Sage if it "just >> works".  What are the drawbacks?  When I think about the drawbacks now >> the only thing I can think of is "Michae

[sage-devel] Re: vtk on Mac

2009-08-25 Thread Tim Lahey
On Aug 25, 2009, at 1:46 PM, William Stein wrote: > > I'm fine with switching to the framework build for Sage if it "just > works". What are the drawbacks? When I think about the drawbacks now > the only thing I can think of is "Michael Abshoff didn't want to > switch to it". But I can't think

[sage-devel] Re: vtk on Mac

2009-08-25 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > Hi, > > we spent about 6 hours with Prabhu trying to install VTK in Sage on > Mac on the scipy09. We failed and Prabhu suggested to just use the > framework build of python. > > I will try in the second half of September (I am busy till th

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-07-08 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > > On 07/08/09 10:56, Ondrej Certik wrote: >>> I'll rebuild VTK on my mac tonight and check how that works. >> >> Many thanks for the update and for working on it. If it cannot be used >> offscreen, then I think it's a showstopper, that

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-07-08 Thread Tim Lahey
On Jul 7, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > > > The one problem I noticed with 1 above is that off screen support on > OS > X still needs to create an actual window. I will have to recheck on > this with a recent VTK build though. > This doesn't surprise me. Mesa is a software r

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-07-07 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 07/08/09 10:56, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> I'll rebuild VTK on my mac tonight and check how that works. > > Many thanks for the update and for working on it. If it cannot be used > offscreen, then I think it's a showstopper, that will create Mac a > second class platform, that is incapable of hos

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-07-07 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > > On 07/01/09 03:22, Ondrej Certik wrote: >>> If you have questions about this, I would simply join the visit users list: >>> >>> https://email.ornl.gov/mailman/listinfo/visit-users >> >> Thanks for this, I'll have a look at how to fix/

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-07-07 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 07/01/09 03:22, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> If you have questions about this, I would simply join the visit users list: >> >> https://email.ornl.gov/mailman/listinfo/visit-users > > Thanks for this, I'll have a look at how to fix/patch VTK to build on > Mac. I think Prabhu has a commit access, so

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-07-01 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: >>> >>> >>> Do Mac systems have /usr/include/X11? the bsd.math has it. If generaly >>> not, then I still need to tweak the configur

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> >> >> Do Mac systems have /usr/include/X11? the bsd.math has it. If generaly >> not, then I still need to tweak the configure to build without X11 at >> all, if that is possible (maybe no

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread Tim Lahey
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > > Do Mac systems have /usr/include/X11? the bsd.math has it. If generaly > not, then I still need to tweak the configure to build without X11 at > all, if that is possible (maybe not). Not always. The user has to explicitly install the X11

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Brian Granger wrote: > > Ondrej, > >> Many thanks for this! Some comments below: >> >>> >>> 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 b

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread Brian Granger
Ondrej, > Many thanks for this! Some comments below: > >> >> 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 1 lines long and

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > Hi Brian! > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Brian Granger wrote: >> >> 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

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi Brian! On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Brian Granger wrote: > > 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 > hel

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread Brian Granger
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

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Brian Granger > wrote: >> >>> One important >>> thing to note is where the Framework goes.  It will be installed in >>> $SAGE_LOCAL/Frameworks.  The bin and lib directories (where >>> executables and site-

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Brian Granger wrote: > >> One important >> thing to note is where the Framework goes.  It will be installed in >> $SAGE_LOCAL/Frameworks.  The bin and lib directories (where >> executables and site-packages) end up will be subdirectories of this. >> You will proba

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread Brian Granger
> One important > thing to note is where the Framework goes. It will be installed in > $SAGE_LOCAL/Frameworks. The bin and lib directories (where > executables and site-packages) end up will be subdirectories of this. > You will probably need to point PATH to something like > $SAGE_LOCAL/Framewo

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread Brian Granger
I am attaching my spkg-install script that I have used to generate a Framework build of Python 2.5.1. You might have to tweak it for later versions of Python, but this should get you started. One important thing to note is where the Framework goes. It will be installed in $SAGE_LOCAL/Frameworks.

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread Tim Lahey
On Jun 30, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > Is Sage using nonframework Python build? I don't know. Yes, it's using a regular build. I think some people are looking at a framework build .spkg because it's necessary for any GUI work on OS X. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate,

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Brian Granger wrote: > > 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 a

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread Brian Granger
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, gett

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 06/30/09 00:42, William Stein wrote: >> Oops, sage-4.0.2 doesn't build on bsd.math. Here is what I get after a >> long compile: > > For what it is worth, sage-4.0.2 does build fine on bsd.math. That's > where I build all the OS X 10.5 intel binaries.Since you didn't > actually post anythi

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-29 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > > On 06/29/09 14:58, William Stein wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Ondrej Certik 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 joi

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-29 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:37 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:12 PM, William Stein wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Prabhu >>> Ramachandran wrote: On 06/29/09 22:07, Prabhu Ramachandran wrot

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-29 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:12 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Prabhu >> Ramachandran wrote: >>> >>> On 06/29/09 22:07, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: On 06/29/09 14:58, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Jun

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-29 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:12 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Prabhu > Ramachandran wrote: >> >> On 06/29/09 22:07, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: >>> On 06/29/09 14:58, William Stein wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > Hi, > >

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-29 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > > On 06/29/09 22:07, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: >> On 06/29/09 14:58, William Stein wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: Hi, the optional vtk package fails to buid on Mac, it fails to configur

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-29 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 06/29/09 22:07, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > On 06/29/09 14:58, William Stein wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Ondrej Certik 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 l

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-29 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 06/29/09 14:58, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Ondrej Certik 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 comp

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-29 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > > On 06/29/09 14:37, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> 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 compil

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-29 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
On 06/29/09 14:37, Ondrej Certik wrote: > 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/

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-29 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Ondrej Certik 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://cod

[sage-devel] Re: vtk, tvtk and VPython lookalikes

2007-12-02 Thread Jaap Spies
Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007 6:34 PM, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/~prabhu/Software >> https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/TVTK >> >> This looks very interesting. > > It's currently pain to install, but with the help of Prabhu and Gael I > cr

[sage-devel] Re: vtk, tvtk and VPython lookalikes

2007-11-29 Thread Jaap Spies
Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007 6:34 PM, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Today I installed vtk_meta-1.spkg. >> >> I'm searching for a replacement in SAGE for VPython (an amazing (teaching) >> tool). >> http://www.vpython.org/ >> >> Remembering a note on the VPython mailing list br

[sage-devel] Re: vtk, tvtk and VPython lookalikes

2007-11-29 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Nov 29, 2007 6:34 PM, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Today I installed vtk_meta-1.spkg. > > I'm searching for a replacement in SAGE for VPython (an amazing (teaching) > tool). > http://www.vpython.org/ > > Remembering a note on the VPython mailing list brought me here: > > http://ww

[sage-devel] Re: vtk optional package

2007-11-07 Thread Joshua Kantor
I have a patch in my spkgs directory (vtk_plot.hg) If you apply it, there will be 3 functions vtk_plot_surface, vtk_plot_array, and vtk_plot_3d_iso For example sage: f=lambda x,y:sin(sqrt(x^2+y^2)) sage: vtk_plot_surface(f,-2,2,-2,2,num_points=100) On Nov 7, 8:02 am, "William Stein" <[EMA

[sage-devel] Re: vtk optional package

2007-11-07 Thread William Stein
On Nov 7, 2007 1:00 AM, Joshua Kantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem is that on Linux, if you don't have the opengl libraries > (typically libgl1-mesa-dev) then vtk won't build but the package exits > successfully. I guess I need to add my own tests for open gl libraries > on linux lik

[sage-devel] Re: vtk optional package

2007-11-07 Thread Joshua Kantor
The problem is that on Linux, if you don't have the opengl libraries (typically libgl1-mesa-dev) then vtk won't build but the package exits successfully. I guess I need to add my own tests for open gl libraries on linux like I do for tcl/tk. Josh On Nov 5, 10:09 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PR