# Xcode cannot open renderer
**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/xcode-cannot-open-renderer/6219
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 21, 2021, 4:24pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/xcode-cannot-open-renderer/6219 "2021-07-21T16:24:32Z")
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### Author:  [@fmilicchio](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/fmilicchio)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2021, 4:24pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/xcode-cannot-open-renderer/6219/1 "2021-07-21T16:24:32Z")
Hello all,
I am using for the first time VTK (9.0.1 from anaconda) on a macOS machine (11.4), and I seem to be unable to open the renderer window, or better, something happens, I see the icon, but it closes immediately.
The requirement is to use Xcode (12.5.1), not the command line with CMake, so I have read some posts and translated the CMake commands to the Xcode configuration.
I am using the example cylinder code, adding before using any VTK includes the following:
```auto
#include
#include
VTK_MODULE_INIT(vtkInteractionStyle)
VTK_MODULE_INIT(vtkRenderingFreeType)
VTK_MODULE_INIT(vtkRenderingOpenGL2)
```
In the “Other Link Flags” I have added the VTK libraries from CMake:
```auto
-lfreetype
-lGLEW
-lvtkInteractionStyle-9.0
-lvtkRenderingContextOpenGL2-9.0
-lvtkRenderingGL2PSOpenGL2-9.0
-lvtkRenderingContextOpenGL2-9.0
-lvtkRenderingOpenGL2-9.0
-lvtkRenderingContext2D-9.0
-lvtkRenderingFreeType-9.0
-lvtkRenderingUI-9.0
-lvtkRenderingCore-9.0
-lvtkCommonColor-9.0
-lvtkFiltersSources-9.0
-lvtkFiltersCore-9.0
-lvtkCommonExecutionModel-9.0
-lvtkCommonDataModel-9.0
-lvtkCommonTransforms-9.0
-lvtkCommonMisc-9.0
-lvtkCommonMath-9.0
-lvtkCommonCore-9.0
-lvtksys-9.0
```
I have also tried to add the OpenGL framwork along with IOKit and libz, but it does not help.
What sees to me weird is that I expected at least an error in the output console, but nothing can be seen.
Any hints are really welcome.
Thanks!
Franco