[Paraview-developers] Troubles compiling Paraview on Windows

[David E DeMarle]

We still have a VTK dashboard running a very old mingw so likely not too
hard to get ParaView going. Would need a volunteer to contribute and
monitor nightly ParaView dashboard though to make it happen.

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

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 09:59:46 +0000, PULVERAIL, Sebastien wrote:
> > Indeed, when I look to the command line, it is very very long: between
> 20000
> > and 29000 characters depending on where I put the paraview build
> directory.
>
> While we don't support MinGW, I have fixed this specific issue since
> 4.3.1. See the following ParaView commits:
>
>     commit ce04c1ff17c4327310e4cb3033529aa4cdc087e2
>     Author: Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com>
>     Date:   Tue Mar 10 17:47:45 2015 -0400
>
>         branding: only use the rc target hack for non-VS
>
>         Change-Id: I67aaad70fd8c61d4bad4538946c9ef19101e1ef6
>
>     commit b64ca409fbe616a3a83e1c02d3e84f8ded814771
>     Author: Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com>
>     Date:   Fri Mar 6 18:03:23 2015 -0500
>
>         windows: reduce the size of the command line for the RC compiler
>
>         Change-Id: Ic9d643bb63b02feb7ac5ef099f85ef78ebec7c96
>
> and these from VTK:
>
>     commit b144b68838a0590c8ea7dbf773c89aa90df2ad30
>     Author: Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com>
>     Date:   Tue Mar 10 15:04:48 2015 -0400
>
>         vtkpython: avoid vtkpythonrc hack in Visual Studio
>
>         It handles response files itself.
>
>         Change-Id: Icf50178289028a0c56dcb89bbb0db7044b571d9a
>
>     commit a701e9c04282ca184ac7c7641f57751331ff5536
>     Author: Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com>
>     Date:   Thu Mar 5 15:37:25 2015 -0500
>
>         windows: compile the vtkpython.rc file separately
>
>         On Windows, if a build tree has a long path, the command line
> length
>         limit can be exceeded. This is normally handled by using response
> files
>         to store the command line arguments rather than passing them
> directly.
>         Unfortunately, CMake does not support this for RC files. To address
>         this, compile the rc file separately.
>
>         Change-Id: Ie91e9578c6cf41f7386b914e408c6369c733117f
>
> I'm not sure if something else would be required for Eclipse or QtCreator,
> but
> it works for Ninja at least.
>
> --Ben
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