Jakub Marecek
My personal homepage proper is at http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~jxm. This is just SAGE Days related stuff:
Compiling VTK: -- Even the latest stable version of VTK (5.0.4) makes some weird assumptions about namespaces. In order to make it compile with GCC 4.3, replace #include <string> with #include <string.h> and similarly for other C library headers.
Using Java VTK Wrappers: -- Add vtk.jar to your classpath. Notice the jar file can end up in a fresh /VTK-build/, even though you have specified other build output directory. -- Add the directory where libvtkRenderingJava.so resides to your path (export to PATH seems to work just as well as -Djava.library.path=~/VTK-build/bin/ at java's command line) -- Add libmawt.so to you LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your environment (export seems to work, although -DLD_LIBRARY_PATH at java's command line does not)