Comments on: Python 2.5 enabled VTK 5.2 Windows binaries

By: cpbotha

cpbotha — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:40:56 +0000

@Brennan:

I’m glad that you managed to solve the DLL problem. You could try starting up MayaVi from a cmd window, hopefully you’ll see some more error output helping you to diagnose the problem.

By: Brennan

Brennan — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:34:11 +0000

msvcr80.dll from my XP installation didn’t work but I downloaded msvcr80.dll and msvcp80.dll from the http://www.dll-files.com website and that has got me a bit further along – still haven’t got a Mayavi/mlab app
running properly yet but I did get a window flash up and then close so
the missing dll errors have gone away.

By: Brennan

Brennan — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:00:52 +0000

I’m trying this under Windows 2000 installed under Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. I tried “import vtk” from the python prompt but get an unable to find dll error as msvcr80.dll is missing. Unfortunately vcredist_x86.exe fails to install the dll’s as it comes up with a Windows Installer error due to another missing dll.

Do you think I can simply copy over msvcr80.dll from XP?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:12:13 +0000

Hi,

another comment: even though I cannot run the examples under http://www.imaging.robarts.ca/~dgobbi/vtk/vtkpython.html
mayavi works fine, this was my main goal.
again, thank you very much for providing the library!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:56:07 +0000

Hello,

I followed your instructions and installed vcredist. the folder is included in the path:
C:\Documents and Settings\gdc229>echo %PATH%
…C:\gfortran\bin;C:\VTK-5
.2-Py25-VS8sp1-cpbotha.net\VTK\bin

C:\Documents and Settings\gdc229>echo %PYTHONPATH%
C:\VTK-5.2-Py25-VS8sp1-cpbotha.net\VTK\bin;C:\VTK-5.2-Py25-VS8sp1-cpbotha.net\VTK
\lib\site-packages

import vtk works
from vtkCommonPython import * -> No module named vtkCommonPython

do you have any ideas? I’ve never come across any package as difficult to install as vtk.
thank you very much for providing this prebuild package, I already tried many times to build it, never worked for me.

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:43:26 +0000

To Lukas:
Have you tried to compile ITK in VS2005 using CMake? I have compiled ITK for general python environment. But when I setted ITK_USE_REVIEW and USE_WRAP_ITK to ON , there are several errors…

By: Lukas

Lukas — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:47:11 +0000

@Rafael:

I’ve compiled several versions of VTK without any problems in VS8 (2005). Are you using CMake?

By: Rafael Goncalves

Rafael Goncalves — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:02:06 +0000

Yes, thats the case.

Lukas:
How did you manage to compile it? I’ve tryed with mingcw and VS9 but it went wrong all the times.

By: Cookie

Cookie — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:58:05 +0000

Hi cpbotha,
It’s very good that these packages run well under python25! You are great! But when I cake sth. with itk3.8 package and then build in vs2005, there is an error like this:

2>Cannot find SWIG Lib directory. Checked:
2> C:/build/jwd/archive/Insight/Utilities/CableSwig/SWIG/Lib

I checked the itk package, and found in the fiel “gdcmConfigure.h” there is a line

#define PUB_DICT_PATH “C:/build/jwd/inst/Insight/share/gdcm/”

and in the file “vcl_where_root_dir.h”
#define VCL_SOURCE_ROOT_DIR “C:/build/jwd/archive/Insight/Utilities/vxl”

I wish to know are there any other files influencing the later cmaking vcproj file. And do you have any other better ideas than change by hand?

By: cpbotha

cpbotha — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:04:15 +0000

@Rafael Goncalves:

Your PATH should contain C:\vtk\bin and your PYTHONPATH should contain *both* c:\vtk\bin;c:\vtk\lib\site-packages

Is this the case?

Are you also sure that you have the vcredist package installed?