[Paraview] Paraview on Mac OS X

[Joseph Gorse]

I may have missed earlier posts about getting Paraview to run on Mac  
OS X.  The last time I tried was 2.0.0 and, after some minor  
tweaking, successfully built/installed it.  It doesn't really do what  
I want (XYZ atom structure and motion visualization) so I haven't  
played with it much after that.  Has this been a problem and are  
people trying to do this?  If so, I wouldn't mind helping out.

Cheers,
Joe


On May 23, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Paul Wells wrote:

> Thanks to all the various hints and suggestions from the kind and  
> knowledgeable members of this list I am very pleased to announce  
> that I have finally got Paraview-2.0.2 running on my Mac!!
>
> For reference:
>
> Machine: Apple Mac (12" AlPB - PPC G4)
>
> OS: Ubuntu linux 5.0.4 (Hoary Hedgehog - I have OS X Panther and  
> ubuntu as dual boot so I have the best of both worlds.) - Ubuntu is  
> a fantastic distro for those who haven't seen it.  
> www.ubuntulinux.org You have to apt-get (or use synaptic) to  
> install the build-essential files (gcc etc) and the various -dev  
> packages with the development headers for X11 and the like (I can  
> provide a complete list if needed). You have to activate the  
> universe and multiverse repositories, but Synaptic makes this a  
> simple tick in a check-box.
>
> You can apt-get cmake from the debian repositories, but it builds  
> easily from source, which is what I did.
>
> Then I just followed the installation instructions for Paraview,  
> with the one exception of running cmake interactively (cmake -i ~/ 
> paraview-2.0.2), saying 'yes' to advanced options and changing the  
> 'build shared vtk libraries' option from 'OFF' to 'ON' then, make,  
> (sudo) make install. Finally, (sudo) nano /etc/ld.so.conf to add  
> the path /usr/local/paraview-2.0.2 to the list and (sudo) ldconfig  
> to update the library search path.
>
> If you don't want to (or can't) do the sudo install step then you  
> don't need to worry about ld.so.conf or ldconfig, the executable  
> finds the shared libraries in the build directory straight after  
> the 'make' step (I tried)
>
> I can now double-click the paraview executable in /usr/local/bin  
> and it runs perfectly.
>
> So, not exactly 'Paraview on OSX', but on PPC Mac at least, which  
> is quite alright for me because the next step is to compile  
> OpenFOAM, also on ubuntu...
>
> Many thanks once again, especially to Kitware. I hope my small  
> contribution here might be of use to others.
>
>
> -- 
> Regards
> Paul J Wells MA.(Cantab.) CEng. MRAeS.
>
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