Re: new release of Octaviz

S=F8ren Hauberg wrote:
> Hi,
>   Thanks for making this release! I'm using it on ubuntu edgy with =

> octave 2.9.9+.
> It required some work to get it going on my machine so I thought I'd shar=
e:
> =

> 1) First of all I had to compile my own version of vtk-5 since
>    the one in ubuntu is broken.
> 2) Then I had to edit (in $VTK_PREFIX/lib/vtk-5.0) vtkCommonKit.cmake
>    and vtkRenderingKit.cmake and remove all references to the vtk
>    build directory.

This might be addressed by the two paths-related patches here:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1565595&group_=
id=3D100501&atid=3D627604


> 3) Then I had to edit Common/octaviz.cc in the octaviz source directory.
>    I had to change line 188 from
>      return reinterpret_cast<octave_uint64_t>(vtk_pointer);
>    to
>      return reinterpret_cast<uint64_t>(vtk_pointer);

I don't know about this one.  If someone else confirms that this is a =

necessary change, then I can make the edit in CVS.

> Things still don't work on 2.9.9+ because octaviz is using all_va_args. =

> I'll send a patch for this...
> =


Please do!

Regards,
Jonathan