[Paraview-developers] [paraview-developers] A kind of building errors of paraview development version under Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7 64bits

Robert Maynard robert.maynard at kitware.com
Thu Jan 5 15:43:10 EST 2012


You can also use Microsoft's MPICH2 version which can be found at:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=14737


On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:30 PM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>wrote:

> Turn off PARAVIEW_USE_MPI in CMake and recompile. If that doesn't work
> (because of stale dependent build option settings) you will have to clear
> out the build directory and recompile.
>
> Alternatively you could install MPICH2 or OpenMPI for Windows and then
> rebuild. When you turn on PARAVIEW_USE_MPI the first time, CMake should
> find MPI in your path and and determine what the correct settings for
> MPI_INLCUDE, MPI_LIBRARY and MPI_EXTRA_LIBRARY accordingly. The VTK and
> ParaView dashboards have a few examples, but it appears the Kitware hosted
> machines (see http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewNotes.php?buildid=1886001for example) all use Microsoft's MPI.
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
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>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Mingcheng Chen <linyufly at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> These days I was puzzled by different kinds of errors when I tried to
>> build paraview from open source code.
>>
>> My machine is AMD64 and my OS is Windows 7 64bits.
>>
>> My IDE is Visual Studio 2010.
>>
>> My CMake  is 2.8.
>>
>> I choose to build a 32bit version.
>>
>> A kind of errors is as follows.
>>
>> "Error 31 error LNK1120: 12 unresolved externals
>> D:\LCSWorkSpace\ParaViewTest\ParaViewDev\bin\Release\Cosmo.dll Cosmo"
>>
>> "Cosmo" is a project in ParaView.sln generated by CMake.
>> "D:\LCSWorkSpace\ParaViewTest\ParaViewDev" is my output directory of
>> CMake (where ParaView.sln is).
>>
>> I do not know what the 12 unresolved externals are. Moreover, there is
>> another kind of errors such as follows.
>>
>> "Error 29 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _MPI_Recv referenced
>> in function "public: void __thiscall Message::receive(int,int)"
>> (?receive at Message@@QAEXHH at Z)
>> D:\LCSWorkSpace\ParaViewTest\ParaViewDev\VTK\Utilities\Cosmo\Message.obj
>> Cosmo"
>>
>> Is it one of the 12 unresolved externals? What is the meaning of this
>> error and how can I get rid of it?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> I am very interested in whether there are people who have successfully
>> built 32bit paraview using Visual Studio 2010 on 64bit machine.
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Mingcheng Chen
>> January 5th, 2012
>>
>>
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