Programming:Compiling Paraview 3.8.1 for OS X 10.6.4

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

Installed cmake binary, and actually used ccmake

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

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

configure, setup path to PARAVIEW build directory when asked. configure/generate until no errors appear then from /path/to/different/build/vtkArrowGlyph

make

should take a minute to build, there is only one source file, plus plugin stuff

any errors you can’t fix, send me full output. I have everything setup here so I assume everyone knows how to build plugins.

Once compiled, run paraview, tool/manage plugins, load new, select “auto load” once loaded.

JB