[vtkusers] Mac OS X and VTK

Tom Bartol bartol at salk.edu
Mon Mar 26 12:07:45 EST 2001


Great work!  Can't wait to get a machine so I can try this out.

Tom


On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Yves Starreveld wrote:

> Hi, Scott,
> 
> We corresponded about this a while back.
> 
> I have a version of vtk running under OSX public beta.
> 
> A little more than a recompile was necessary, namely new vtkRenderWindow
> and vtkRenderWindowInteractor subclasses to deal with the Quartz window
> manager. An ObjC - C++ bridge file is also necessary, since the current
> version of the compiler does not compile files which mix ObjC and C++.
> 
> As soon as I get the release version of OSX installed, I will move this
> stuff over there, and fix the build process so that installation is less
> painful than it is now.
> 
> I will post when this stuff is done.
> 
> Yves Starreveld
> 
> Harris Scott R CIV AFRL/SNJM wrote:
> > 
> > There was some discussion a while back about trying to port VTK to
> > Mac OS X. I, for one, would be very excited about running VTK on
> > my Mac (right now I do it using LinuxPPC).
> > 
> > Since Mac OS X has OpenGL I'm hoping that it won't be too much
> > work. I'm going to try and compile on my iBook tonight to see
> > what happens.
> > 
> > Is anyone working on this? Is anyone else interested?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -Scott Harris
> > 
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