>>>>> "Trevor" == Trevor Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Trevor> Hello, I spent all day today trying to get vtk and mayavi
Trevor> to build on cygwin because of a cannot find
Trevor> "libvtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets.dll" error. I finally got
I've never tried VTK on win32 with cygwin which is why there is little
information about this.
Trevor> it to work somewhat on accident, and since the maillist
Trevor> postings regarding similar-sounding errors served to
Trevor> confuse me all day (they were mostly the results of
Trevor> different problems, but did point me to the right files),
Right, they are usually all for normal win32 binaries and not for
cygwin ones.
Trevor> I thought I should post my solution in case anyone else
Trevor> has the same problem.
Many thanks! This will definitely be worth a FAQ entry.
Trevor> Second (What got things to work after a day): On line 21
Trevor> of
Trevor> blahblah/VTK/Wrapping/Python/vtk/tk/vtkLoadPythonTkWidgets.py,
Trevor> change prefix from "lib" to "cyg". I think the cygwin
Trevor> version of whatever makes dynamic libraries just always
Trevor> uses cyg instead of lib.
What is sys.platform? i.e. how can we differentiate between python on
native win32 and python on cygwin? This is so a more lasting fix can
be made to VTK.
cheers,
prabhu
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