[Paraview-developers] Eclipse on Windows

[Robert Kerr]

Hi Jeff,
Here's what I've tried:

1) I tried using cmake to generate mingw makefiles pointing at the g++ 
that mingw provides--that was fraught with errors, specifically xdmf and 
hdf5 linking errors (not finding the right symbols in the .lib files) so, 
on the advice of Brian, I decided to try a different tack.

2) I then switched to using cmake to generate nmake makefiles, pointing to 
visual studio 2005 as the compiler.  This got me farther, as I was finally 
able to build paraview.exe.  But I can't do a make all, the CxxTests 
target failed due to linking errors.

Some more data.  Bill Hoffman mentioned that he used a specially-hacked 
version of gmake to run his build, although he is doing it without 
eclipse.  I have no problem using unix makefiles rather than nmake 
makefiles, if that'll work better.

More data--I'm losing my laptop for a day or two while they install an 
encrypted hard drive, so I'm going to be starting from scratch after that. 
Maybe that will help, as the new hard drive won't have as much cruft on 
it.

Thanks

-bob




On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Jeff Baumes wrote:

> I have done this a few years back, and remember some of the details.
> What are the problems with CxxTests, Python? Do they not compile or
> not run? Are you generating NMake makefiles, Visual Studio projects,
> or an eclipse project? The eclipse project generator did not exist
> when I tried it out. I just generated nmake makefiles and made my own
> eclipse project and changed the eclipse build command to nmake.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Robert Kerr <rakerr at sandia.gov> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> You're probably tired of hearing me moan and complain about this type of
>> stuff, but, depending on the response, this should be my last email on this
>> issue.
>>
>> Is anyone out there successfully using eclipse to compile all of the
>> paraview build on Windows?  paraview seems to compile, but some of the
>> ancillary stuff (CxxTests, Python integration) doesn't seem to be working.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> -bob
>>
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>> discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."- Isaac Asimov
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