[Paraview-developers] Missing mili and CGNS support in ParaView Superbuild

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Adding to what Ben said,

1. Mili: I believe we were never allowed to distributed mili support
to general public (I can't remember the issues there, but maybe Berk
remembers) and hence it's disabled in the ParaView superbuild. You
should be manually able to enable it your build build if you have the
prequiste mili libraries.
2. CGNS: The CGNS reader in ParaView itself is a better version of the
CGNS reader, vastly improved by contributions from community member
Mickael Philit and then enhanced further for Sandia use-cases. That's
why the VisitBridge CGNS reader is disabled. VTK/ParaView CGNS reader
is automatically enabled in a default build of ParaView.

Utkarsh


On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 5:08 PM, Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 20:38:20 +0000, Hennessey, Joseph G CTR USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) wrote:
>> Could this be added back into ParaView (along with the ability to build
>> mili)?
>
> Mili was removed in the superbuild back in 2015 and it had been
> completely commented out (it seems it had been a plugin then).
>
> However, I can't find a mili upstream. All I see is mentions of
> VisItBridge, VisIt, and lots of noise. Do you have a link to a mili
> tarball?
>
>> I also looked into CGNS support
>>
>> In ParaView 5.3.0 cgns was directly supported by ParaView
>>
>>     -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_CGNS:BOOL=${cgns_enabled}
>>     -DVISIT_BUILD_READER_CGNS:BOOL=OFF # force to off
>>
>> for some reason the ParaView version was pulled in 5.4.0,
>> but the visit version from VTK was not turned on.
>
> It still exists in `master`. The superbuild's copy of cgns was removed
> since ParaView imported it into its ThirdParty directory.
>
> The superbuild does have a CGNS reader test which is passing:
>
>     https://open.cdash.org/testDetails.php?test=628752872&build=5265531
>
> --Ben
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