[Paraview-developers] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Issues building paraview with MPI : unresolved externals

[Ben Boeckel]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 15:40:53 +0000, Su, Simon M CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) wrote:
> We have been using openmpi 1.4.5 as that is the only version of
> OpenMPI that I am able to compile with VS2013 Express via cmake.
> 
> I was told, on windows, the dependency library needs to be compiled
> with the same compiler (like VS2013 express) that is used to compile
> ParaView. Is that not the case anymore? Or Jayesh Krishna's MPICH
> binray is compiled with VS2010 Pro?

That is true if C++ is used in both the dependency and the depender
code. Pure C libraries can (usually) be mix-and-matched (e.g., Python).

--Ben