[vtkusers] Re: [some thoughts] Newbie: Installing vtk 4.0 on Darwin(Quartz)

[Jan Hendrik Kruger]

Hi Yves and Mike

Thank you for the quick replies and the VTK40_Tcl guide from Mike!
I followed the instructions (but using my previously built libs) and got the mace example to work. (some instant gratification...)

Now I have a few more questions relating to the howto guide:

- I used cmake in interactive mode, without editing CMakeCache.txt; in retrospect the OpenGl path was set correctly, but I did not build it as shared libraries. Will this come back to haunt me? What is the practical implication of not building as shared libraries?

- My implementation is C++ based (no Tcl/Tk); if the VTK interactor is Cocoa based - does that mean that all VTK libs can only be used in Cocoa projects?
OR
Is it only applicable to the VTK render/interactor libs? That is, can the datastructures still be used in Carbon apps if I do not need rendering at this stage?

Thanks again, I'm glad to have VTK at least working!

Jan-Hendrik Kruger