[Paraview-developers] Cannot compile PV plugin by adding non-vtk classes in server manager sources

[Burlen Loring]

yep, sorry about that. Glad you got it going!

On 03/14/2014 02:31 PM, Sunrise wrote:
> Thank you for the response, Burlen! It worked!
>
> I guess you meant SOURCES tag instead. Because CXX_SOURCE is not 
> recognized.
>
> ADD_PARAVIEW_PLUGIN(
> myVTKfilterPlugin
>     "1.0"
>     DOCUMENTATION_DIR       SomePath/doc
>     SERVER_MANAGER_XML      SomePath/myVTKfilter.xml
>     GUI_RESOURCE_FILES      SomePath/myVTKfilterGUI.xml
>     SERVER_MANAGER_SOURCES  SomePath/myVTKfilter.cxx
>     SOURCES                 SomePath/Class1.cxx SomePath/Class2.cxx
>     )
>
>
>
> On 03/14/2014 09:24 AM, Burlen Loring wrote:
>> I think you should be able to use the CXX_SOURCES argument. for eg
>>
>> ADD_PARAVIEW_PLUGIN(
>> myVTKfilterPlugin
>>     "1.0"
>>     DOCUMENTATION_DIR       SomePath/doc
>>     SERVER_MANAGER_XML      SomePath/myVTKfilter.xml
>>     GUI_RESOURCE_FILES      SomePath/myVTKfilterGUI.xml
>>     SERVER_MANAGER_SOURCES  SomePath/myVTKfilter.cxx
>>     CXX_SOURCES             SomePath/Class1.cxx SomePath/Class2.cxx
>>     )
>>
>>
>>
>> On 03/14/2014 08:52 AM, Sunrise wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am creating a ParaView plugin for my code. The main class is a vtk 
>>> class, which is inherited from vtkDataSetAlgorithm, called 
>>> myVTKfilter. However, in it's implementation I used few other 
>>> classes of mine that are not derived from VTK classes (lets call 
>>> them Class1, Class2 and Class3 for simplicity), and they have a 
>>> simple public constructor and destructor, etc, and I do not want to 
>>> derive them from vtk algorithms and add many vtk methods to them.
>>>
>>> In CMakeLists,txt, the part that deals with the plugin is:
>>> ADD_PARAVIEW_PLUGIN(                                                                                                                                                          &a 
>>> mp;nbs p; ;
>>>     myVTKfilterPlugin
>>>     "1.0"
>>>     DOCUMENTATION_DIR       SomePath/doc
>>>     SERVER_MANAGER_XML      SomePath/myVTKfilter.xml
>>>     GUI_RESOURCE_FILES      SomePath/myVTKfilterGUI.xml
>>>     SERVER_MANAGER_SOURCES  SomePath/myVTKfilter.cxx 
>>> SomePath/Class1.cxx SomePath/Class2.cxx SomePath/Class3.cxx)
>>>
>>> While I compile the code, I am getting the following error:
>>>
>>> MainPathToCode/build/Class1ClientServer.cxx:13: error: 
>>> 'SafeDownCast' is not a member of 'Class1'
>>> make[2]: *** 
>>> [CMakeFiles/myVTKfilterPlugin.dir/Class1ClientServer.cxx.o] Error 1
>>> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/myVTKfilterPluginPlugin.dir/all] Error 2
>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>
>>> It seems that in order to compile all sources for plugin, it is 
>>> assumed that all classes should be derived from a vtk algorithm. But 
>>> what if not all of them are vtk classes?
>>>
>>> I appreciate your comments on how to fix it.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Sia
>>>
>>>
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