[Paraview-developers] Problem with VTK modularization and branded ParaView applications

[Chris Harris]

Hi Cory,

What version of CMake are you using? This issue was fixed in 2.8.7
 I believe.

Regards,

Chris

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Cory Quammen <cquammen at cs.unc.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've encountered what may be a problem in VTK that impacts ParaView,
> so I'm sending to the developers list for both. It seems to be related
> to the recent modularization effort in VTK.
>
> I have a branded ParaView application (source code available here:
> https://github.com/MADAI/MADAIWorkbench) and I'm trying to compile it
> against HEAD in ParaView master on Mac OS X using the makefile
> generator in CMake.
>
> The compilation of this application fails when building custom plugins
> included with it. In the case I'll use to illustrate the error, the
> plugin is called BinningFilter.
>
> Compilation fails with a bash error:
>
> mac-quammen:MADAIWorkbench-1.2.2 quammen$ make
> [  1%] Generating Documentation HTMLs from xmls
> Processing wiki sources
> Processing wiki filters
> Processing wiki writers
> Processing wiki readers
> [  2%] Generating qrc_BinningFilter.cxx
> [  3%] Compiling Qt help project BinningFilter.qhp
> Building up file structure...
> Insert custom filters...
> Insert help data for filter section (1 of 1)...
> Insert files...
> Warning: The file
>
> /Users/quammen/dev/build/MADAIWorkbench-1.2.2/Plugins/BinningFilter/doc/*.css
> does not exist! Skipping it.
> Warning: The file
>
> /Users/quammen/dev/build/MADAIWorkbench-1.2.2/Plugins/BinningFilter/doc/*.png
> does not exist! Skipping it.
> Warning: The file
>
> /Users/quammen/dev/build/MADAIWorkbench-1.2.2/Plugins/BinningFilter/doc/*.jpg
> does not exist! Skipping it.
> Insert contents...
> Insert indices...
> Documentation successfully generated.
> [  5%] Generating BinningFilter_doc.h
> -- Generate module: BinningFilter
> [  6%] Generating vtkBinningFilterClientServer.cxx
> [  7%] Generating vtkSMXML_BinningFilter.h
> -- Generate module: BinningFilter
> [  9%] Generating moc_BinningFilter_Plugin.cxx
> /bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> [snipped for brevity]
>
> The problem seems to be that bash is choking on the compiler definitions
>
> -DvtkIOExodus_AUTOINIT=1(vtkIOParallelExodus)
>
> -DvtkRenderingCore_AUTOINIT=3(vtkInteractionStyle,vtkRenderingFreeTypeOpenGL,vtkRenderingOpenGL)
> -DvtkRenderingVolume_AUTOINIT=1(vtkRenderingVolumeOpenGL)
>
> The open (and close) parens seem to be the source of the error.
>
> If I modify the "Plugins/BinningFilter/moc_BinningFilter_Plugin.cxx"
> rule in Plugins/BinningFilter/CMakeFiles/BinningFilter.dir/build.make
> to add quotation marks around the value of the compiler definitions,
> it compiles fine.
>
> So somewhere, quotation marks are not being added around the
> definition values for the AUTOINIT definitions. I'm working on
> figuring out how this happens, but if someone more intimately familiar
> with the modularization might be able to shed light on it, I would
> appreciate it very much.
>
> Thanks,
> Cory
>
> --
> Cory Quammen
> Research Associate
> Department of Computer Science
> The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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