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

[Robert Maynard]

You are correct, you will need to build your own version of Qt.

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Mingcheng Chen <linyufly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oops I am sorry. I just click reply....
>
> So the path "Q:\4.6.3\lib" actually could represent "C:\Qt\4.6.3\lib",
> right?
>
> Unfortunately I found there is only Qt4.6.3VS2008 in
> ftp://ftp.trolltech.no/qt/source/, which means I need to build my own Qt,
> right?
>
> Thanks again!
>
>
> Best regards,
> Mingcheng Chen
> January 30th, 2012
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:29 PM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
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Robert Maynard