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

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

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 07:36:11AM -0600, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> Lukas Diduch wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Glad to hear!  It is nice to know that the info works on someone else's 
> computer, and Leopard too.  I will add 10.5 to the Distribution and change 
> the fink dependency to >0.28.
>
> Did you need to use the DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH environmental variable 
> to make it work?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan

Works with both: DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and the fallback path. I guess you
only can get rid of this by linking the library statically.

Regards,
Lukas