Following http://www.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/GrabbingAndBuilding, you have to build/install VTK 5.0 and a few python extensions from sources.
All needed installation information for a given python module or VTK can be reached on its webpage.
For the impatient, these informations are resumed here.
Note about configure script: If you don't specify the destination where the packages will be installed, they will be installed by defaut in /usr/local.
We make the choice here to install them in a personnal directory, say ~/Mayavi2. So we set the environment variable DESTDIR to ~/Mayavi2, and will refer it later as DESTDIR:
Under sh shell-like, type:
export DESTDIR=~/Mayavi2
Under csh shell-like, type:
setenv DESTDIR ~/Mayavi2
Is is also supposed that you download and uncompress all tarball sources in a specific directory, named src/, for example.
Installing python2.3/python2.4
Download Python-2.3.5.tar.bz2 at http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.3.5 or Python-2.4.3.tar.bz2 at http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4.3 and untar it in src/:
cd src && tar xvfj Python-2.4.3.tar.bz2
Then run:
cd Python-2.4.3/ && ./configure --enable-shared --enable-unicode=ucs4 --prefix=$DESTDIR
Then you can make & make install:
make && make install
Installing VTK 5.0
Download vtk-5.0.0.tar.gz and vtkdata-5.0.0.tar.gz at http://public.kitware.com/VTK/get-software.php and untar them in src/:
cd src/ && tar xvfz vtk-5.0.0.tar.gz && tar xvfz vtkdata-5.0.0.tar.gz
Note: cmake package must be installed before proceed.
Run:
cd VTK && ccmake .
to create the required Makefile.
Press on "c" to configure.
Then press "enter" on the selected item to toggle flag.
You should specify some information, notably about some libraries location (tcl/tk libs + dev packages and python2.3/python2.4 you have just installed) if ccmake does not find them, and the destination (set it to DESTDIR).
Don't forget to set flag "VTK_WRAP_PYTHON" to on (and "VTK_WRAP_TCL" if you want to use Tcl/Tk):
BUILD_EXAMPLES ON BUILD_SHARED_LIBS ON CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY 2.0 CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX DESTDIR VTK_DATA_ROOT DESTDIR/VTKData VTK_USE_PARALLEL OFF VTK_USE_RENDERING ON VTK_WRAP_JAVA OFF VTK_WRAP_PYTHON ON VTK_WRAP_TCL ON
Press "c" to continue configuration:
PYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH *DESTDIR/include/python2.4 PYTHON_LIBRARY *DESTDIR/lib/libpython2.4.so TCL_INCLUDE_PATH */usr/include/tcl8.4 TCL_LIBRARY */usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so TK_INCLUDE_PATH */usr/include/tcl8.4 TK_LIBRARY */usr/lib/libtk8.4.so VTK_USE_RPATH *OFF BUILD_EXAMPLES ON BUILD_SHARED_LIBS ON CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY 2.0 CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX DESTDIR VTK_DATA_ROOT DESTDIR/VTKData VTK_USE_PARALLEL OFF VTK_USE_RENDERING ON VTK_WRAP_JAVA OFF VTK_WRAP_PYTHON ON VTK_WRAP_TCL ON
Note: you can press "t" to get more configuration options.
Press "c" and then "g" to exit configuration, then type:
make && make install
Installing wx-Python2.6
Download wxPython-src-2.6.3.2.tar.gz at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10718 and untar it in src/:
cd src/ && tar xvfz wxPython-src-2.6.3.2.tar.gz
Note: You should have GTK 2 installed i.e. you should have libgtk-2.6.* and libgtk2.6.*-dev packages installed.
Then run:
cd wxPython-src-2.6.3.2/ && ./configure --enable-unicode --with-opengl --prefix=$DESTDIR
Then you can do:
make; make -C contrib/src/animate; make -C contrib/src/gizmos; make -C contrib/src/stc
or follow instructions on wx-Python2.6 webpage, creating a little script which runs automatically the commands above.
Then install all:
make install; make -C contrib/src/animate install ; make -C contrib/src/gizmos install; make -C contrib/src/stc install
To build python modules:
cd wxPython
and run:
./setup.py build_ext --inplace --debug UNICODE=1
and install them:
./setup.py install UNICODE=1 --prefix=$DESTDIR
Installing scipy 0.5 & numpy 1.0
Download scipy-0.5.1.tar.gz at http://www.scipy.org/Download
Before installing scipy, you have to download and install:
numpy-1.0.tar.gz (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369&package_id=175103)
- Atlas libraries (you could install it with your packages manager, no need to build it in src/)
No special option are required to install these python extensions.
To install these packages in our $DESTDIR, simply change directory and type:
./setup.py install --prefix=$DESTDIR
That's all, folks !
Before installing MayaVi2, you have to set some environment variables, to tell MayaVi2 where python extensions can be found.
Under sh shell-like, type:
export PYTHONPATH=$DESTDIR:$PYTHONPATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DESTDIR:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Under csh shell-like, type:
setenv PYTHONPATH ${DESTDIR}:${PYTHONPATH}
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${DESTDIR}:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}