[Paraview] request general advice for building paraview on x86-64 Opteron

[Lee A Ankeny]

You shouldn't have to hack the makefiles, but I did find it necessary to add these to my cmake configuration:

CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING=-L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib64
OPENGL_gl_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/lib64/libGL.so
OPENGL_glu_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/usr/lib64/libGLU.so
X11_X11_LIB:FILEPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib64/libX11.so

That fixes most of my 64-bit Linux build problems. However, tk/.../wish doesn't get the message, and won't build properly unless you hack it's Makefile. Fortunately wish doesn't really matter, as it's not used for anything. See bug# 1823.

Lee

At 10:25 AM +0200 5/18/05, John Biddiscombe wrote:
>>I recently build paraview on Intel EMT. I encountered one compile
>>error (linker actually) while linking to MPICH I compiled myself. I
>>was linking against a static mpich library and the linker complained I
>>had to recompile mpich with fpic. When I linked against a shared
>>mpich, everything worked fine. I should note that I was building
>>paraview shared too. I did not try static.
>> 
>>>Would anyone be willing to share their experience or advice for building ParaView and / or VTK on the x86-64 platform? I greatly appreciate any comments or suggestions you may have.
>>>  
>>>
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>I'll Second this. Anything you build yourself will be fine, because you can control the flags, but watch out for any third party libs you link against. I had a lot of trouble on a red hat box because it would link by default to everything in /usr/lib and I had to manually edit makefiles to link against /usr/lib64 in particular when running cmake, make sure you don't pick up the wrong libs in some of the X11R6/... directories and modify all the paths if necessary. I'm not sure how many distributions use lib and lib64 as distinct and different - but I found fedora core 3 was a lot of trouble in this respect. However if you know what you're doing (and I didn't because I'm new to linux), then you should be fine.
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>JB
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