VTK
The VTK upstream is preparing for a version 4.2 release, and once
again I am looking at the possibility of a Java VTK library going into
Debian main using gcj. The jni stuff has matured nicely on first look,
so perhaps something interesting along the lines of a libvtk-java
package could come to pass.
I'd like the help of Java Gurus with suitable amount of bandwidth and
CPU cycles to take a look at VTK.
The bad news is that building with gcj, libgcj3-dev, etc. fails
because VTK wants jawt_md.h. But the good news is that VTK probably
doesn't need all of AWT to work. Perhaps some gentle hacking could get
things to a state where the java examples (in the vtk-examples
package) would work with gcj.
Quick start hint:
grab vtk package source, vtkdata package, and satisfy build-depends
and add your java environment to that. Then grep for JAVA in
debian/rules and uncomment those lines, then see what the build
target of debian/rules will do. Be patient.
Comments? Suggestions?
Have fun,
-Maitland
Reference for further reading...
http://packages.qa.debian.org/v/vtk.html
http://www.vtk.org/example-code.php
http://www.vtk.org/
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