[Paraview] Building on VS 2005

[Mike Jackson]

I chose to reinstall VS 2003. None of the other options are, well,  
options given my customers environment. I pretty much need a drag and  
drop install. Compiling with VS2003 and using the "INSTALL" project  
in "Release" mode gives me what I need.

Thanks everyone for the help
-- 
Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services


On May 16, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Berk Geveci wrote:

> OK. I am extremely confused. I think you are going down the wrong
> path. You cannot use cpack with ParaView 2. Only ParaView 3 supports
> it. The possible solution to this problem are:
> * Compile with visual studio 2003
> * Install vcredist_x86.exe on the target computer
> (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32bc1bee- 
> a3f9-4c13-9c99-220b62a191ee&displaylang=en)
> * Manually copy the manifest files (I have no ideas how)
> * Follow Bill Hoffman's instructions from the cmake mailing list:
>   Add INCLUDE(InstallRequiredSystemLibraries) to the top
> CMakeLists.txt file in ParaView. I did not test this so I am not sure
> it will work.
>
> ParaView 3 does not have this problem (although it has other problems
> with distributing Qt and Python).
>
> -berk
>
> On 5/16/07, Mike Jackson <imikejackson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sure I can run CPack. I tried running CPack -G ZIP on a windows XP
>> machine and I get the error that ZIP cannot be found, which is what I
>> thought would happen. I did get the Compressed Tar option to work
>> though. My problem now is I am not sure if my customers system will
>> have anything that understands the tar.z file. The computer systems
>> are locked down extremely tight so I can only count on what comes
>> Native with Windows XP SP2. Is there a Zip package that you recommend
>> I put on my own system so that I can generate a .zip package?
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>> --
>> Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
>> Innovative Management & Technology Services
>>
>>
>> On May 16, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Amy Squillacote wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Mike,
>> >
>> > I don't a whole lot about the install issues with VS2005 either,
>> > but I had a conversation with one of my colleagues where I found
>> > out that the CMake folks have figured out how to redistribute
>> > things built with VS 2005 if it's a release build (and have
>> > incorporated this functionality into CPack). For some reason it's
>> > different with a debug build, and he's wasn't even sure it was
>> > possible. Is it possible for you to use CPack to create an
>> > installer executable, and then run the installer on that server?
>> >
>> > - Amy
>> >
>> > Berk Geveci wrote:
>> >> Hi Mike,
>> >>
>> >> I am not a Windows person but I heard from someone that it is no
>> >> longer possible to simply distributed the MS runtime libs. It has
>> >> something to do with manifest files or something.  You have to do
>> >> something more or install some runtime stuff from Microsoft. I
>> >> know my
>> >> answer is vague :-) I didn't use VS 2005 yet. I am still building
>> >> with
>> >> 2003. You may want to ask it to the cmake mailing list.
>> >>
>> >> -berk
>> >>
>> >> On 5/14/07, Mike Jackson <imikejackson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> I recently started using VS 2005 Professional (up from VS  
>> 2003 .Net)
>> >>> and when I compile ParaView (2.4.4) using the "INSTALL"  
>> project from
>> >>> within the VS 2005 solution file everything seems to build and  
>> does
>> >>> get copied to the install location but I noticed that the MS C
>> >>> and C++
>> >>> runtime libs are no longer copied into the intsall location. Is
>> >>> this a
>> >>> bug somewhere? Has anyone else noticed this? I used to be able to
>> >>> right click on the "INSTALL" project, let it run to  
>> completion, then
>> >>> simply copy the Paraview 2.4.4 folder onto a  server for other
>> >>> people
>> >>> to use. Now I am not sure what else needs to be copied.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks
>> >>> --
>> >>> Mike Jackson
>> >>> imikejackson _at_ gee-mail dot com
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> -- 
> Berk Geveci
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