[Paraview-developers] Paraview build in VS

[thomasblome at startmail.com]

I´m trying to build paraview from source, therefore using:

*   Windows 7
*   Visual Studio 2010
*   Qt 4.8.7
*   Python 2.7.8
*   msmpi 7
*   paraview source, version 5.1.0

In CMake I can choose different options to specify what functionality 
to include into the build process. I tried different combinations, like 
setting BUILD_EXAMPLES or PARAVIEW_USE_MPI, respectively. Now I have 
got following questions:

1.  
    
    When I set BUILD_SHARED_LIBS and PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON as well 
    (besides others, but I know those two cause the problem), 
    configuring and generating the project with CMake is successful, 
    but compiling in VS fails; it keeps freezing right after starting 
    the compilation. Did anybody experience the same problem and how 
    did you solve it? (By the way, if I switch off BUILD_SHARED_LIBS it 
    works, but I don´t want a static build of paraview).

2.  
    
    By using the combination BUILD_EXAMPLES, BUILD_TESTING, 
    PARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI, PARAVIEW_ENABLE_CATALYST, 
    PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON and PARAVIEW_USE_MPI the same problem as 
    described in 1.) occurs, but that is more or less what I need to 
    use catalyst to perform in-situ analysis of my FEM simulation. 
    (Incidentally, if I switch off BUILD_TESTING in the above 
    combination it works, but I need CTest to test the catalyst 
    examples as described here 
    <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26416630/how-to-run-catalyst-paraview-code-examples>. 
    Does anybody now how to fix that problem?

3.  
    
    As shown at GitHub 
    <https://github.com/Kitware/ParaViewCatalystExampleCode-MOVED->, 
    some examples have been updated to work properly in paraview 4.4. 
    Is my version of paraview (5.1.0) unsuitable for the catalyst 
    examples? Is that the reason why VS is always hanging up for 
    particular variable settings in CMake and which version of paraview 
    is most suitable to get the catalyst examples going?

I'd appreciate any help!
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