[Paraview-developers] [paraview-developers] Do I have to build ParaView Development from the source code if I want to add my new plug-in?

[David E DeMarle]

Please keep discussion on the mailing list so everyone can contribute
and benefit.

I think you have to install qt 4.6.3. If the libraries used by the pv
libs and your program don't match, it can not link and run.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909



On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Mingcheng Chen <linyufly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> When I was compiling my plugin with 32 bit ParaView Development 3.12.0
> downloaded from the link you provided, I encountered the follow error
> report.
>
> LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file
> 'Q:\4.6.3\lib\QtWebKit4.lib'.
>
> However the available Qt is in C:\Qt\4.8.0 on my machine.
>
> How can I change that path?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best regards,
> Mingcheng Chen
> January 30th, 2012
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:42 AM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Mingcheng Chen <linyufly at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> The latest release version of ParaView Development is 3.8. Compiling my
>>> plug-in with it always returns: error MSB6006: "cmd.exe" exited with code 1.
>>>
>>> However, I can successfully compile my plug-in with ParaView Development
>>> 3.12 which was built by myself from the source code. (I once asked about an
>>> MPI related problem when building ParaView from source code. I did not solve
>>> the problem, so I just disabled USE_MPI.)
>>>
>>
>> If you need your plugins to work with the official ParaView binaries,
>> first try the development libs from
>> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Plugin_Deployment_with_Development_Installs
>> (Thanks blueCAPE Lda for making the 3.12 versions!).
>>
>> If those don't work for you then yes you need to build your own and you
>> must make sure your build environment matches the build environment we used
>> to make the binaries
>> See: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_Binaries
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Now I had a more challenging task: install a parallel ParaView on a
>>> remote multi-core machine which has no GPU and which should be able to be
>>> added my new plug-ins to.
>>>
>>> The remote multi-core machine has Visual Studio 2010 and a 64-bit Windows
>>> operating system.
>>>
>>> As far as I know, for the absence of GPU, I need to install Mesa3D,
>>> right? For MPI, is MPICH2 enough? For Qt library, is any version for VS2010
>>> acceptable?
>>>
>>
>> On windows you don't typically need Mesa, the Windows GL drivers should
>> handle it.
>>
>> Either MPICH2 and OpenMPI should work. I've been using MPICH myself
>> lately.
>>
>> Check the Qt download site. If they don't have a VS2010 version you will
>> have to build it from source yourself.
>>
>>
>>> Is there any cutoff for me?
>>>
>>> I am looking forward to helping hand badly...
>>>
>>> Thanks for finishing reading!
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Mingcheng Chen
>>> January 25th, 2012
>>>
>>
>> David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
>> R&D Engineer
>> 21 Corporate Drive
>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>
>
>