[Paraview-developers] Requiring Qt 4.6 for ParaView 3.8

Clinton Stimpson clinton at elemtech.com
Mon Feb 8 11:32:28 EST 2010


If ParaView doesn't need it, maybe skip turning webkit or phonon options on in 
VTK/GUISupport/Qt/CMakeLists.txt.

Clint

On Monday 08 February 2010 09:26:55 am Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> Yup, that sounds like the issue I'm running into.  However, I was hoping
> there would be a single fix that would work for all users.  Compiling
> ParaView can be tricky enough for users/developers/support staff.  It would
> be nice if it compiled with the suggested version of Qt without having to
> odd modifications like this.
>
> -Ken
>
>
> On 2/8/10 9:15 AM, "Clinton Stimpson" <clinton at elemtech.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> If this is the issue I'm thinking of, the Qt dmg installer creates a dummy
> QtDBus.framework that CMake thinks is real.  So it tries to link it in
> because of a phonon dependency.  (If QtDbus exists, phonon depends on it).
>
> I ran into this issue building VTK with Qt 4.6 from the dmg installer.
>
> My workaround was to rename the QtDbus.framwork directory, and start a
> clean build (or edit the cmake files).
>
> Should find_library() be returning "/some/path/foo.framework/foo" instead
> of "/some/path/foo.framework" in which case this fake QtDbus.framework
> wouldn't be an issue.
>
> Clint
>
> On Monday 08 February 2010 09:00:49 am Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> > I was planning on upgrading to Qt 4.6, but there is an issue with the
> > LGPL binaries for Mac: it is missing the QtDBus library.  I couldn't find
> > the source, so I decided it was too much of a hassle to bother.  I just
> > tried again this morning.  The QtDBus library is still missing and I
> > still can't find the LGPL sources.  Is there any way of making
> > VTK/ParaView not depend on QtDBus?
> >
> > -Ken
> >
> >
> > On 2/6/10 3:32 PM, "Utkarsh Ayachit" <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > As we are approaching 3.8 branch, what does everyone think of making
> > Qt 4.6 the officially supported version? Quite a few of us have been
> > using Qt 4.6 for quite some time now and don't think there are any
> > issues.
> >
> > Utkarsh
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