Re: new release of Octaviz

[Jonathan Stickel]

Søren 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 share:
>
> 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=detail&aid=1565595&group_id=100501&atid=627604


> 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