[vtkusers] Building VTK on LINUX

[Matthew Gillen]

> I tried to build VTK with the following options:
> 
> configure --with-x --with-shared --with-contrib --with-patented
--with-tcl --with-tkwidget --with-mesa --with-opengl  
> 
> 
> Can anybody give me some hints how to solve this problem ??
> 
> Thanks
> DAVE

use only mesa or opengl.  If you're having problems compiling  with the
--with-mesa flag (stuff about OSMesa), it's because some binary packages
of Mesa don't come with the Off-screen rendering that Mesa is supposed to
offer.  The simplest solution is to just use the --with-opengl flag
instead (your Mesa installation should have set some symlinks so that
libMesa.so and libGL.so are the same thing) and it should work fine. 

Matt Gillen