VTK/Wrappers/Command Line Arguments

As of VTK 6, the wrapper command-line tools are used as follows:

vtkWrapPython [options] class.h

Many of the options are similar to those of the unix "cc" compiler. The available options are as follows:

option	description
-o <file>	the output file (new for VTK 6.0)
-I <dir>	add an include directory (new for VTK 5.8)
-D <macro[=definition]>	define a macro (the definition is optional) (new for VTK 5.8)
-U <macro>	undefine a macro (new for VTK 5.8)
@<file>	read command-line arguments from the specified file (new for VTK 6.0)
--hints <file>	hints file, usually called "hints" (new for VTK 5.8)
--types <file>	type hierarchy file, usually ends in "Hierarchy.txt" (new for VTK 5.8)
--version	print the VTK version number of the tool (new for VTK 5.10)
--help	print a short help message (new for VTK 5.10)
--concrete	force the wrappers to wrap the input as a concrete class (new for VTK 5.8)
--abstract	force the wrappers to wrap the input as an abstract class (new for VTK 5.8)
--vtkobject	inform the wrappers that the class is derived from vtkObjectBase (new for VTK 5.8)
--special	inform the wrappers that the class is not derived from vtkObjectBase (new for VTK 5.8)

The "@file" option allows one or more of the command-line arguments to be stored in a "response file". If the file that appears after the "@" does not exist, then "@file" will, itself, be treated as a command-line argument. This behavior was chosen for consistency with gcc, which also supports response files.