[vtk-developers] Is anyone actually building VTK with Tk 8.6 Cocoa on OS X 10.6???

[David Gobbi]

Hi Kent,


The Tk-8.5.7 that comes with OS X 10.6 is, in fact, a patched version
of Tk-8.5.7 that uses Cocoa.  So you don't have to download Tk-8.6
just to get Cocoa-Tk.

To use Tk, Cocoa, and VTK together all you should need is the following:
1) OS X 10.6
2) VTK 5.6 or later (this includes VTK-git)

Then set the following in CMake:
VTK_USE_COCOA=ON
VTK_WRAP_TCL=ON
CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=x86_64

Even you need Tk-8.6b1 for some reason other than Cocoa, please try
building VTK against Tk in /System/Library first, because it is the Tk
that is being tested on the VTK OS X dashboards.

   David


On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:35 PM, kent williams <nkwmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Subject line says it all. The basic problem is that I can't figure out
> how to build Tk 64-bit on OSX, without X11 and with Cocoa.
>
> This is not a VTK problem per se, but it's impossible to build VTK
> 64-bit with Tk support without X11, except by using Cocoa. Tk 8.6b1 is
> supposed to support a Cocoa build, but I can't for the life of me
> figure out how to configure it to make it happen.
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