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diff --git a/libraries/VTK/README b/libraries/VTK/README index d24b76957c..b352886970 100644 --- a/libraries/VTK/README +++ b/libraries/VTK/README @@ -1,32 +1,31 @@ -The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open source, freely available software -system for 3D computer graphics, modeling, image processing, volume rendering, -scientific visualization and information visualization. VTK also includes -ancillary support for 3D interaction widgets, two and three-dimensional -annotation, and parallel computing. At its core VTK is implemented as a C++ -toolkit, requiring users to build applications by combining various objects into -an application. The system also supports automated wrapping of the C++ core into -Python, Java and Tcl, so that VTK applications may also be written using these -interpreted programming languages. +The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open source, freely +available software system for 3D computer graphics, modeling, +image processing, volume rendering, scientific visualization and +information visualization. VTK also includes ancillary support for +3D interaction widgets, two and three-dimensional annotation, and +parallel computing. At its core VTK is implemented as a C++ toolkit, +requiring users to build applications by combining various objects +into an application. The system also supports automated wrapping of +the C++ core into Python, Java and Tcl, so that VTK applications may +also be written using these interpreted programming languages. -Since version 8.1.0, VTK requires the qt5 package. - -Some optional additional packages, if detected during configuration, are used -in preference to versions provided in the source code. These packages, available -from SlackBuilds.org, are: +Some optional additional packages, if detected during configuration, +are used in preference to versions provided in the source code. These +packages, available from SlackBuilds.org, are: jsoncpp proj -You can enable a number of optional features by passing variables to the script -(VAR=yes|no ./VTK.SlackBuild): +You can enable a number of optional features by passing variables to +the script (VAR=yes|no ./VTK.SlackBuild): -IMAGING=yes|no (default: no) +IMAGING=yes|no (default: yes) MPI=yes|no (default: no), requires openmpi TK=yes|no (default: yes) -VIEWS=yes|no (default: no) -WEB=yes|no (default: no), requires python-twisted +VIEWS=yes|no (default: yes) +WEB=yes|no (default: no), requires python3-twisted JAVA=yes|no (default: no), requires jdk PYTHON=yes|no (default: yes) QT=yes|no (default: yes) -VTK is an optional dependency for the opencv SlackBuild. However since VTK-8.2.0, -it is not suitable as an optional dependency for opencv-legacy. The last suitable -version of VTK for building opencv-legacy is VTK-8.1.2. +NB. Some combinations of options are known to result in compilation +errors if the build machine already has VTK installed. Please remove +any VTK installation before running the SlackBuild. |