[Paraview] How to compile with MPI support?

Amy Squillacote amy.squillacote at kitware.com
Fri Mar 10 13:32:31 EST 2006


At 01:28 PM 3/10/2006, Amy Squillacote wrote:
>At 01:17 PM 3/10/2006, Kevin H. Hobbs wrote:
>>On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 10:55 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> > Is there any documentation on how to compile with MPI support?  Haven't
>> > found it yet....
>> >
>>
>>I've never found it either, but I've been slowly learning, and it's come
>>up on the list a few times it amounts to :
>>
>>mkdir paraview_build_dir
>>cd paraview_build_dir
>>export CC=mpicc
>>export CXX=mpiCC
>>ccmake paraview_SOURCE_dir
>
>Alternatively, turn on VTK_USE_MPI in CMake.  (It's an advanced 
>variable.)  Reconfigure.  If CMake can't find MPI on your system, 
>you'll need to specify where the MPI library and the include path 
>for MPI are on your system.  Once CMake knows where those are, run 
>Generate again from within CMake.  Then rebuild.

This is described in "The ParaView Guide" on pages 221-222.

- Amy 



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