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

[Cory Quammen]

Chris,

I was using 2.8.6. I'll give 2.8.7 a shot.

Thanks,
Cory

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Chris Harris <chris.harris at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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>



-- 
Cory Quammen
Research Associate
Department of Computer Science
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill