<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Sean,<div> Thanks for the advice, it really does reflect what I've just discovered. Trying to get things to move to 64-bits on a new Mac OS X 10.5.x installation is quite involved. </div><div><br></div><div>I had more problems trying to compile the snapshot version of Qt-4.5.x for 64-bits, so I'm going to wait till they release the official version and then try the Cocoa bindings. </div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Sep 29, 2008, at 7:06 PM, Sean McBride wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>However, perhaps you are doing too many things at once. Although both<br>VTK and Cocoa support 64 bit, they are both much better tested in 32<br>bit. I would suggest working only in 32 bit. Are you using 64 bit<br>because it was the only way to get Cocoa support with the new Qt? I<br>suspect Qt is also much better tested in 32 bit. Considering you are<br>using a new Qt with experimental Cocoa support, adding 64 bit into the<br>mix will only complicate things.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, as I'm discovering right now. For the moment, I'm going to make do with Carbon support and try to get things to work in 32-bits.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>Also, are you building libjpeg and libpng for VTK's sake? It would be<br>simpler to just use the versions that come with VTK itself, instead of<br>trying to use separate versions. Just building VTK with default<br>settings will use the built-in versions of those libs.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Actually, I needed this for grass-6.4.x, which requires that I install the following libraries</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 0, 128); ">proj-4.6.0</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 0, 128); ">gdal-1.5.2</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 0, 128); ">libjpeg-6b</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 0, 128); ">libtiff-3.8.2</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 0, 128); ">libpng-1.2.31</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(128, 0, 128); ">fftw-2.1.5</div></div><div><br></div><div>So, I got stuck with libjpeg-6b, which I understand is problematic to compile for 64-bits for some reason.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>