[Paraview] Fw: RE: Building a filter fails on CVS Paraview

[Samuel Crow]

--- On Tue, 8/19/08, Samuel Crow <samuel_crow_work at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> From: Samuel Crow <samuel_crow_work at rocketmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [Paraview] Building a filter fails on CVS Paraview
> To: "Moreland, Kenneth" <kmorel at sandia.gov>
> Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 6:55 PM
> vtkDistanceFilter is one that my boss wrote for a
> proprietary application years ago.  What I've done is
> translate it into an external ParaView plugin.
> 
> Thanks for the tip about TrollTech's website.  I see
> now that they do have QT 4.3 for Windows.  (I had looked at
> that list before and just must have looked right past it.)
> 
> --- On Tue, 8/19/08, Moreland, Kenneth
> <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
> 
> > From: Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov>
> > Subject: RE: [Paraview] Building a filter fails on CVS
> Paraview
> > To: "samuel_crow_work at rocketmail.com"
> <samuel_crow_work at rocketmail.com>,
> "paraview at paraview.org"
> <paraview at paraview.org>
> > Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 6:42 PM
> > > I've built Paraview from last Wednesday's
> CVS
> > and the CVS from the
> > > Thursday before that.  On the Mac I get a linker
> > error:  Undefined
> > > Symbols: 
> > "vtkIntantiatorvtkDistanceFilterNew()",
> > refrerenced from:
> > >
> >
> __Z35vtkInstantiaqtorvtkDistanceFilterNewv$non_lazy_ptr in
> > > vtkSMDistanceFilterInstantiator.cxx.o
> > 
> > vtkDistanceFilter?  I don't see that in my source
> list.
> >  Do you have a modified source build?
> > 
> > At any rate, I would try doing a clean build.  Run
> CMake
> > from scratch to an empty binary directory and build
> > everything over again.  I find that often solves
> problems of
> > this nature.
> > 
> > > I can't build the CVS of ParaView on Windows
> > because I don't have 4.3.x of
> > > QT and IIRC TrollTech's downloads for Windows
> go
> > back as far as 4.4.0 of
> > > QT.
> > 
> > You can get previous version of Qt from this Trolltech
> ftp
> > site:
> > 
> >   ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/
> > 
> > There is a link on the Qt download page, but it is
> easy to
> > miss.
> > 
> > Also, you could try to compile ParaView with Qt 4.4.0
> by
> > removing the check in the CMake files
> > (ParaView3/CMakeLists.txt lines 91-95).  We discourage
> users
> > from using the new early version so that we don't
> have
> > to worry about issues with different version of Qt,
> but to
> > my knowledge no one has found any problems.
> > 
> > -Ken