Wrappers for the Visualization Toolkit (VTK).
VTK must be installed first.
VTK Installation Instructions
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Warning to GCC users:
GCC version 3 cannot be used to compile VTK; you may check the version
of gcc with "gcc -version". GCC version 3 is the default compiler on
recent cygwin systems, and is used on some other newer systems as
well. Be sure that you have another compiler or GCC version 2 on your
system (for example, the package "gcc2" on cygwin). You will specify
your other compiler on *ALL* commands that start with "make". For
example, if you have the "gcc2" package on cygwin, when you get to the
following VTK build instruction:
make VTKVER=40 vtkcygwin
use instead:
make VTKVER=40 CC="gcc-2" CXX="c++-2" LDSHARED="gcc-2 -shared" CXXSHARED="c++-2 -shared" vtkcygwin
On non-cygwin system, the VTK build instruction:
make VTKVER=40 vtkunix
would be replaced by:
make VTKVER=40 CC="<path to non-gcc3 C compiler>" CXX="<path to non-gcc3 C++ compiler>" LDSHARED="<path to non-gcc3 C shared linker>" CXXSHARED="<path to non-gcc3 C++ shared linker>" vtkunix
and so on ...
GENERAL NOTE: At this moment, Common/vtkViewport.o is not included in
libCommon.a for VTK 4.0. This causes problems and is an obvious
mistake. So the Makefile looks for vtkViewport.o in the
vtk40/VTK/Common directory when building this SWIG example. So only
Method 3 is an option right now (or Method 2 if you copy vtkViewport.o
to .../chicken/vtk/vtk40/VTK/Common/).
-- Method 1 (Win32 with mingw) --
Download vtk40Core.exe and vtkCpp.exe from
http://public.kitware.com/VTK/get-software.php.
Run vtk40Core.exe and install to wherever (I will assume you
installed to the default "C:\Program Files\vtk4.0").
Run vtkCpp.exe and install to the same directory you install
vtk40Core.
Before building this SWIG example, set
VTKHOME=C:\Program Files\vtk4.0
and then run "make" in this chicken/vtk directory using Mingw32 (that
is, run Cygwin shell, and set the PATH to .../mingw/bin).
-- Method 2 --
Download a source archive (either vtk40Src.zip or vtk40Src.tar.gz)
from http://public.kitware.com/VTK/get-software.php and follow the
instructions using "README.html" (which is inside vtk40Src).
-- Method 3 (Unix or Cygwin) --
If you do not have "cmake" installed on your system, do the following
and it will be installed in chicken/vtk/cmakelocal:
Download
cmake-1.6.2.tar.gz from
http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Download.html
and place it in this chicken/vtk directory.
Type:
make CMAKEVER=cmake-1.6.2 cmake
PATH=${PWD}/cmakelocal/bin:$PATH
export PATH
If you do not have "vtk" installed on your system, do the following
and it will be installed in chicken/vtk/vtklocal:
Download
vtk40Src.tar.gz from
http://public.kitware.com/VTK/get-software.php
and place it in this chicken/vtk directory.
Type (for cygwin):
make VTKVER=40 vtkcygwin
(for everyone else):
make VTKVER=40 vtkunix
VTK SWIG Example
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Make sure that VTK is installed. If you followed the previous
instructions, then VTK will be installed in .../chicken/vtk/vtklocal.
The following instructions will assume ${PWD}/vtklocal; if you
installed VTK elsewhere, use the correct installation path
(ie. /usr/local instead of ${PWD}/vtklocal).
First, test to make sure VTK is working ...
cygwin:
make EXTRALIBS="-lgdi32 -lopengl32" VTKHOME=${PWD}/vtklocal c
./c-sphere.exe
./c-quadric.exe
other Unixes:
make EXTRALIBS="-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGL -lGLU -lGLw" VTKHOME=${PWD}/vtklocal c
./c-sphere
./c-quadric
You should see a blue sphere that you can manipulate with the mouse
buttons.
Second, test to make sure the SWIG wrappers can be generated and work
for VTK ...
cygwin:
make EXTRALIBS="-lgdi32 -lopengl32" VTKHOME=${PWD}/vtklocal
./vtk test-vtk-sphere.scm
./vtk test-vtk-quadric.scm
other Unixes:
make EXTRALIBS="-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGL -lGLU -lGLw" VTKHOME=${PWD}/vtklocal
./vtk test-vtk-sphere.scm
./vtk test-vtk-quadric.scm
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