[Paraview] Not a valid QT plugin on windows

[Berk Geveci]

Hi Jacques,

I can't be of much help but I wanted to mention that, once you get
this working, we should create a wiki describing issues with plugins
on various platforms, specially Windows.

-berk

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Jacques Papper
<jacques.papper at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok,
>
> I removed the EXPORTS macro in my header, and it produces the same as
> setting the flag vtkIO_EXPORTS. The library is still not loaded though. So
> now I'm looking at the dependencies and the Initialize function.
>
> Kenneth, how do I go about "making sure that the server manager
> initialization function is properly exported" ? I'm not sure I really
> understand what you mean ?
>
> Thanks
> Jacques
>
>
> 2008/12/16 David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
>>
>> That sounds similar to a bug that Pat Marion fixed for the Streaming
>> ParaView plugin under windows. His change that fixed it was this:
>>
>> Index: Client/pqGlobalStreamingViewOptions.h
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file:
>> /cvsroot/ParaView3/ParaView3/Plugins/Streaming/Client/pqGlobalStreamingViewOptions.h,v
>> retrieving revision 1.1
>> retrieving revision 1.2
>> diff -r1.1 -r1.2
>> 36d35
>> < #include "pqComponentsExport.h"
>> 40c39
>> < class PQCOMPONENTS_EXPORT pqGlobalStreamingViewOptions : public
>> pqOptionsContainer
>> ---
>> > class pqGlobalStreamingViewOptions : public pqOptionsContainer
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Jacques Papper <jpapper at ara.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I have two plugins for Paraview that used to work fine with ParaView 3.2
>> > under linux (I used to build them at the same time as ParaView.)
>> > Now I am using Visual Studio and have compiled the plugins outside of
>> > paraview. I am able to generate dll for both the server and client
>> > plugins.
>> > (I had to switch the vtkIO_EXPORTS flag on to build the dlls)
>> > When I launch paraview, only the client side is loaded and when I try to
>> > load the server side it fails with the message : " * is not a valid Qt
>> > plugin" ...
>> > I have found some threads dealing with this but nothing that I can try.
>> > I have built ParaView and my plugins against the same version of Qt
>> > (4.4.3)
>> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > Jacques
>> >
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