[Pythonmac-SIG] Has anyone running vtk+python on OSX?

[Robb Brown]

What's the recommended way of doing this?  If I understand correctly, 
we need to get rid of the -flat_namespace.  Doing this requires that we 
link some of the VTK Python modules with each other (eg. 
libvtkRenderingPython.so needs to be linked with 
libvtkCommonPython.so).  This happens on other platforms but VTK avoids 
this for the Mac.  Must have been a workaround in the early days when 
nobody could get ANYTHING to compile without flat namespaces in Apple's 
gcc.

So how do you link  against a .so?  -l doesn't find them.  If we can 
figure this out I think it's relatively easy to modify VTK's cmake 
files to reflect the change.

Thanks for any help,

Robb


On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 11:27 AM, bob at redivi.com wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:04:48PM +0200, Torsten Sadowski wrote:
>> Great news,
>>
>> I would also be interested in the things you did to make it work, 
>> because
>> - the carbon version did not build because of a problem between the 
>> tk and
>> 	the carbon framework
>> - the python test failed because the wrapper libraries were not linked
>> 	together.
>
> That's what it look like to me.  It looks like their Python wrappers 
> are currently expecting -flat_namespace -undefined suppress and a 
> specific import order.. but Python is not linking the .so's that way.
>
> The best way to do this would be to fix the VTK build process so that 
> it links hte dependent libraries together and doesn't mess up.  That's 
> really NOT the way to do extension->extension dependencies in Python, 
> though.
>
> -bob
>
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