[Paraview] Help with ParaView External Modules

[Kent Eschenberg]

Patrícia Sato wrote:
>  I´m trying to add a reader into ParaView - version 2.6, using the 
> External Modules, but when I run CMake it shows an error message saying 
> that it cannot find the source directory of the reader. The fact is that 
> its source IS on the directory I pointed, as well as its 
> ParaViewImport.cmake file.

The method I've used for 2.4 through 2.6.2 is to put all the files for a new 
module into one directory (in the attached examples it is /whatever/Cloud). I 
call this a "kit" and there can be many. Then, when I first run cmake, have it 
read an initialization file

    cmake -CcompositeInit_partial.cmake <srctree>

which points to all the kits (see attachment). I added "_partial" because I've 
removed references to other kits. Note that this file includes the path to the 
kit, e.g., /whatever/Cloud. You could instead set these parameters using ccmake 
but if its in a file you can more easily reuse the settings.

If you are adding more than one kit (I currently add 4) just edit the 
initialization file to point to them all.

Next, look at a few things in the kit, i.e., your module's directory. You'll 
need a file like cloudParaViewImport.cmake (attached) which include some 
important file names.

Finally, the file that describes your module's GUI must include the path to the 
file describing the server manager connection (see cloudGUI_partial.xml). It 
seems like cmake already has this information but it apparently needs some help.

Hopefully something in all this will suggest some little change in your setup 
that will get you going again.

Kent
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

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SET (cloud_SRCS
  ${cloud_SOURCE_DIR}/vtkCloud.cxx
  )

INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${cloud_SOURCE_DIR})
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${cloud_SOURCE_DIR}/..)

PARAVIEW_INCLUDE_WRAPPED_SOURCES("${cloud_SRCS}")

PARAVIEW_INCLUDE_SERVERMANAGER_RESOURCES("${cloud_SOURCE_DIR}/cloudSM.xml")

PARAVIEW_INCLUDE_GUI_RESOURCES("${cloud_SOURCE_DIR}/cloudGUI.xml")
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SET( PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULES "cloud" CACHE STRING "composite" FORCE )
SET( cloud_SOURCE_DIR "/whatever/Cloud" CACHE STRING "cloud" FORCE )
SET( PARAVIEW_USE_cloud ON CACHE BOOL "cloud" FORCE )
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