The VTK upstream is preparing for a version 4.2 release, and once again I am looking at the possibility of a Java VTK library going into Debian main using gcj. The jni stuff has matured nicely on first look, so perhaps something interesting along the lines of a libvtk-java package could come to pass.
I'd like the help of Java Gurus with suitable amount of bandwidth and CPU cycles to take a look at VTK. The bad news is that building with gcj, libgcj3-dev, etc. fails because VTK wants jawt_md.h. But the good news is that VTK probably doesn't need all of AWT to work. Perhaps some gentle hacking could get things to a state where the java examples (in the vtk-examples package) would work with gcj. Quick start hint: grab vtk package source, vtkdata package, and satisfy build-depends and add your java environment to that. Then grep for JAVA in debian/rules and uncomment those lines, then see what the build target of debian/rules will do. Be patient. Comments? Suggestions? Have fun, -Maitland Reference for further reading... http://packages.qa.debian.org/v/vtk.html http://www.vtk.org/example-code.php http://www.vtk.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
