Programming:Compiling Paraview 3.8.1 for OS X 10.6.4

in the beginning

Had to install xtools again, even though I thought I had already installed it. This gave me the correct C and C++ compilers.

Download and install cmake and ccmake binary (version 2.8.2).

Did *not* install separate version of VTK. VTK is bundled with Paraview source.

Installed Qt 4.6.2, as the latest version (4.7) was rejected by the compiler. Not sure how to override that.

Downloaded Paraview source code 3.8.1

created a new directory (ParaView-bin) beside the source

 $ ls
 drwxr-xr-x@ 22 thunderrabbit  staff        748 Oct 19 12:42 ParaView-3.8.1
 -rw-r--r--@  1 thunderrabbit  staff   33123181 Oct 15 12:22 ParaView-3.8.1.tar.gz
 drwxr-xr-x  28 thunderrabbit  staff        952 Oct 19 16:37 ParaView-bin

cd into the directory and run ccmake

 $ cd ParaView-bin
 $ ccmake ../ParaView-3.8.1

CMake Variables

Press t when in ccmake to make all these variables visible.

Taken from http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Build_And_Install#CMake_Variables, I used these values:

Variable	Value	Description
BUILD_SHARED_LIBS	ON	Enables shared libraries (unless you are sure you want to do static builds)
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE	Release	Unless you want to end up with debug install, set this to Release
PARAVIEW_USE_MPI	OFF	Unless you are taking extra steps to ensure that the clients have the required MPI libraries, set this to OFF, since ParaView does not include rules to package MPI.
PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON	OFF	Unless you are taking extra steps to ensure that clients have the rquired python libraries/modules.
PARAVIEW_GENERATE_PROXY_DOCUMENTATION	ON	To ensure that the html documentation for the sources/filters/readers/writes is generated and packed into the application, turn the following flag ON.
PARAVIEW_INSTALL_DEVELOPMENT	ON	To package development files so that people can build plugins/custom-apps using the installation.
PARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI	ON	To enable building the Qt client

building

c to configure g to generate and exit

 $ make

and wait 3 hours.

extra plugin

 $ ls
 -rw-r--r--@  1 thunderrabbit  staff       6148 Oct 15 20:18 .DS_Store
 drwxrwxr-x   3 thunderrabbit  staff        102 Oct 19 09:11 CMakeFiles
 drwxr-xr-x@ 22 thunderrabbit  staff        748 Oct 19 12:42 ParaView-3.8.1
 -rw-r--r--@  1 thunderrabbit  staff   33123181 Oct 15 12:22 ParaView-3.8.1.tar.gz
 drwxr-xr-x  28 thunderrabbit  staff        952 Oct 19 16:37 ParaView-bin

 $ git clone git://git.cscs.ch/ArrowGlyph.git vtkArrowGlyph
 $ mkdir vtkArrowGlyph-bin

 $ ls
 -rw-r--r--@  1 thunderrabbit  staff       6148 Oct 15 20:18 .DS_Store
 drwxrwxr-x   3 thunderrabbit  staff        102 Oct 19 09:11 CMakeFiles
 drwxr-xr-x@ 22 thunderrabbit  staff        748 Oct 19 12:42 ParaView-3.8.1
 -rw-r--r--@  1 thunderrabbit  staff   33123181 Oct 15 12:22 ParaView-3.8.1.tar.gz
 drwxr-xr-x  28 thunderrabbit  staff        952 Oct 19 16:37 ParaView-bin
 drwxr-xr-x   9 thunderrabbit  staff        306 Oct 19 17:14 vtkArrowGlyph
 drwxrwxr-x   2 thunderrabbit  staff         68 Oct 19 17:14 vtkArrowGlyph-bin

 $ cd vtkArrowGlyph-bin
 $ ccmake ../vtkArrowGlyph

You should see a mostly white screen with Empty Cache at the top.

Empty Cache

Type c to configure, and you should get some error messages saying it couldn't find CMAKE_MODULE_PATH.

missing CMAKE_MODULE_PATH

press e to exit help

arrow down then press return to edit the last item

and fill in ../ParaView-bin

c to configure again, and then g to generate

make

 $ pwd
 ~/yadda/yadda/yadda/paraview/vtkArrowGlyph-bin
 $ ls
 total 176
 -rw-rw-r--   1 thunderrabbit  staff    176 Oct 19 17:45 ArrowGlyph_plugin.qrc
 -rw-r--r--   1 thunderrabbit  staff    480 Oct 19 17:36 ArrowGlyph_pluginInit.cxx
 -rw-r--r--   1 thunderrabbit  staff   4342 Oct 19 17:36 ArrowGlyph_plugin_Plugin.cxx
 -rw-r--r--   1 thunderrabbit  staff   3813 Oct 19 17:36 ArrowGlyph_plugin_Plugin.h
 -rw-rw-r--   1 thunderrabbit  staff  35238 Oct 19 17:46 CMakeCache.txt
 drwxrwxr-x  20 thunderrabbit  staff    680 Oct 19 17:45 CMakeFiles
 -rw-rw-r--   1 thunderrabbit  staff  14196 Oct 19 17:45 Makefile
 -rw-rw-r--   1 thunderrabbit  staff   2435 Oct 19 17:45 cmake_install.cmake
 -rw-rw-r--   1 thunderrabbit  staff    406 Oct 19 17:36 vtkArrowGlyphConfigure.h
 -rw-r--r--   1 thunderrabbit  staff   1074 Oct 19 17:36 vtkSMArrowGlyph_pluginInstantiator.cxx
 -rw-r--r--   1 thunderrabbit  staff    478 Oct 19 17:36 vtkSMArrowGlyph_pluginInstantiator.h

 $ make
 -- Loading ParaView CMake commands
 -- Loading ParaView CMake commands - done
 -- Configuring done
 -- Generating done
 -- Build files have been written to: /Users/thunderrabbit/Documents/work/fred/paraview/vtkArrowGlyph-bin
 [  9%] Generating moc_ArrowGlyph_plugin_Plugin.cxx
 [ 18%] Generating qrc_ArrowGlyph_plugin.cxx
 [ 27%] Generating vtkArrowGlyphFilterClientServer.cxx
 [ 36%] Generating vtkSMXML_ArrowGlyph_plugin.h
 -- Generate module: vtkArrowGlyphFilter
 Scanning dependencies of target ArrowGlyph_plugin
 [ 45%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ArrowGlyph_plugin.dir/qrc_ArrowGlyph_plugin.cxx.o
 [ 54%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ArrowGlyph_plugin.dir/vtkArrowGlyphFilter.cxx.o
 [ 63%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ArrowGlyph_plugin.dir/vtkArrowGlyphFilterClientServer.cxx.o
 [ 72%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ArrowGlyph_plugin.dir/ArrowGlyph_pluginInit.cxx.o
 [ 81%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ArrowGlyph_plugin.dir/vtkSMArrowGlyph_pluginInstantiator.cxx.o
 [ 90%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ArrowGlyph_plugin.dir/ArrowGlyph_plugin_Plugin.cxx.o
 [100%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/ArrowGlyph_plugin.dir/moc_ArrowGlyph_plugin_Plugin.cxx.o
 Linking CXX shared library libArrowGlyph_plugin.dylib
 [100%] Built target ArrowGlyph_plugin

It should take less than a minute to build; there is only one source file, plus plugin stuff.

load

Once compiled, run paraview,

select Tools -> Manage Plugins

Load New

select “Auto Load” once loaded.

recreate JB's screenshot

You have to be careful to

1. choose a time step with meaningful values
2. choose variables with sensible ranges.
3. If you see nothing, increase the scale factor for the array you selected.

JBs screenshot