[Paraview-developers] build environment for official binaries

[Florian Toth]

Hello Mathieu,

Thanks, for the reply.

Yes, we are using the superbuild where we include our plugin as an 
External plugin. This works fine, however the generated packages (via 
`ctest -R cpack`) are not transferable to different Linux distributions 
(e.g. build on Ubuntu16.04 does not work on Centos7.2 due to different 
versions of system C++ libraries).
Additionally, the generated shared libraries of our plugin cannot be 
combined with the official binaries by copying them over to the 
appropriate library directory (results in segfault when loading the plugin).

This used to work on ParaView 5.1.x when the plugin was built on Debian 
6 using the build options given on 
http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Binaries#Linux-x64. As it does not 
work with 5.2 any more, I assumed the build environment changed. 
Unfortunately, I cannot find any information about the build environment 
for 5.2. Is there any information available?

Kind regards,
Florian

On 2017-01-22 16:00, Mathieu Westphal wrote:
> Hi
>
> You will need to use the ParaView-Superbuild, but it is not an easy process.
>
> You can also contact us (Kitware) to do it for you.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Le 22 janv. 2017 2:05 PM, "Florian Toth" <florian.toth at tuwien.ac.at
> <mailto:florian.toth at tuwien.ac.at>> a écrit :
>
>     Hello,
>
>     We develop a custom plugin for ParaView which we like to distribute
>     as a shared library along with the official ParaView binaries (from
>     http://www.paraview.org/download/ <http://www.paraview.org/download/>).
>
>     This worked fine up to ParaView 5.1.x, using Debian 6 as mentioned on
>     http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Binaries#Linux-x64
>     <http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Binaries#Linux-x64>.
>     Updating to ParaView 5.2, I encounter various problems on Debian
>     Squeeze (6):
>      - python >= 2.7 required
>      - freetype needs pkg-conf only available from Debian Wheezy (7)
>
>     What is the official build system for Linux binaries of ParaView 5.2?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Florian
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