Re: [Octaviz-help] Help: octaviz makes octave segfault

[Lukas D. <luk...@ni...>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 09:02:40AM -0600, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> Lukas Diduch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This might also be interesting in regard to thread: [Octaviz-help] Re:
>> Octaviz installation on Mac but first need VTK, and possibly also Cmake.
>>
>> Was able to build octaviz 0.4.7 on OSX/Leopard with octave 3.0.0 and VTK
>> 5.0.4. Octaviz apparently needs some of the VTK X11 functions, so it
>> won't compile with Carbon/Cocoa support enabled in VTK. 
>> X11 support for VTK involves hacking around the building problems due to
>> the opengl/ld bug in leopard and some missing files in VTKs cmake. Same
>> for octaviz: cmake defs do not generate proper makefiles, esp. LDFLAGS
>> and CXXFLAGS. Those have to be set with the correct paths to X11, GL
>> by hand before running ccmake for octaviz the first time.
>>
>> VTK test works fine, octave works fine. Just the same segfault problem
>> when i launch vtk_* scripts from within octave. 
>> cheers
>> Lukas
>>
>
> Octaviz on Mac OS X has been a challenge, but I have had it working for 
> some time now on Tiger (10.4).  If you are using Fink, I recommend that you 
> install vtk by the available info file in unstable.  Then you can use the 
> info file for octaviz that I put on Fink's sourceforge tracker:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1922228&group_id=17203&atid=414256
>
> If you are not using Fink, you can look at the info files to see what cmake 
> options are used.  Perhaps this will be helpful.  If the problems are 
> specific to Leopard, I cannot be of much help.
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan

Thanks a lot, it now works fine on Leopard (10.5.2) ! Built with octave
3.0.0-4, vtk-py25 5.0.4-2 and octaviz 0.4.7-1. FYI: had just to tweak
the Distribution: 10.4 line as well as the fink dep > 0.28 in the
octaviz.info file for fink to like it.

Cheers,
Lukas