[Paraview] Building a plugin that works with Mac binary distribution

[Michael Jackson]

Funny, I was betting how long it would take before someone asked just  
these same questions.

The short answer is, Yes, it _could_ be done.

The long answer is, well, long..

In order to compile/link against the binary distribution you need to  
first have the exact same Xcode version that Kitware's Qt and ParaView  
were compiled with.

Next you need all the headers from ParaView (which I am not sure if  
those are included in the binary distribution or not).

Next you will need to have a project where when you compile your  
plugin against all the libraries that are within the binary  
distribution.

If you compile your plugin as a MODULE and NOT SHARED then you should  
be good to go at this point. You will need to copy your plugin to the  
ParaView 3.4.0.app/Contents/Plugins directory and see if it loads.


What would be nice is if there were some cmake files included with the  
binary distribution that allowed all this. As of yet, there isn't  
anything like this so you are into brand new territory.
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Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio




On Nov 3, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Moreland, Kenneth wrote:

> Does anyone have experience building a plugin on Mac that will work  
> with the
> binary distribution of ParaView?  I tried getting the 3.4.0 source,
> compiling with the same dependent libraries as listed on the Wiki,  
> and then
> compiling my plugin against that, but it did not work.
>
> I think the issue is with getting the libraries to link.  If I compile
> ParaView with rpath off, the plugin fails to load with an unhelpful  
> error
> saying that it is not a valid Qt plugin.  If I compile ParaView with  
> rpath
> on, then the libraries get hard coded against my build.  If I try to  
> load
> the plugin on my machine, I get an error about Qt objects being in  
> different
> threads, which I think is because the plugin is using a different  
> set of
> Qt/VTK/ParaView libraries then the application.  I suspect it would  
> not load
> at all on another machine.
>
> How do you get the libraries to resolve correctly?
>
> -Ken
>
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