[Paraview-developers] general error loading plugins on Cray

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

I suspect those changes are lingering from the days of yore when Cray
didn't support shared libraries.

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi Jean,
>
> Thanks for the investigation and fix. Do you mind sharing your changes to
> DynamicLoader.cxx? A VTK gitlab merge request or even just the file itself
> would be great. I'd like to make sure that this fix gets into VTK and PV.
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 7:36 AM, Favre Jean <jfavre at cscs.ch> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'll respond to my own post. Thanks to a great tip from fellow John
>> Biddiscombe, we figured out that the DynamicLoader::OpenLibrary() was
>> wrongly compiled to be
>> {
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> because of an #if defined() statement checking for
>> CRAYXT_COMPUTE_LINUX_TARGET
>>
>> Depending on whether your compile with the Cray wrapper, or with g++,
>> you'll get a different behavior; the Cray wrapper automatically sets a
>> -DCRAYXT_COMPUTE_LINUX_TARGET
>>
>> Well, compiling with shared libs, I really should be able to open the
>> shared libs objects. I have modified the source code of
>> VTK/Utilities/KWSys/vtksys/DynamicLoader.cxx to default to the last case
>> called " // 6. Implementation for default UNIX machines."
>>
>> I am now up and running with PV5.2 on the Cray XC, running EGL.
>>
>> -----------------
>> Jean/CSCS
>>
>>
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