[Paraview] vtkIdType of int for 64bit Linux binary of PV 3.6.1?

[Takuya OSHIMA]

Thanks.

Takuya

Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN


From: Dave Partyka <dave.partyka at kitware.com>
Subject: Re: [Paraview] vtkIdType of int for 64bit Linux binary of PV 3.6.1?
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:41:59 -0400

> * I don't know why the 3.4.0 release is compiled with 64 bit ids on. The 3.6.1
> release requires it off to build the VisItReaderPlugin. There might also be
> other reasons.
> 
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Takuya OSHIMA <oshima at eng.niigata-u.ac.jp>
> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
>    
>     Trying to create a plugin that can be loaded into the precompiled
>     official ParaView 3.6.1 binaries from Kitware, I noticed that the
>     Linux 64bit package (paraview-3.6.1-Linux64-x86.tar.gz) was compiled
>     with the actual type of vtkIdType set to int. For example,
>    
>     $ nm libvtkCommon.so.pv3.6 | c++filt | grep vtkDataArray::GetComponent
>     00000000000f5400 T vtkDataArray::GetComponent(int, int)
>    
>     where the first int argument is of type vtkIdType at the source code
>     level. Indeed, my plugin won't load unless it was compiled and linked
>     with a ParaView build with VTK_USE_64BIT_IDS=OFF.
>    
>     On the other hand, when I do the same for the official Linux 64bit
>     ParaView 3.4.0, I get the following.
>    
>     $ nm libvtkCommon.so.pv3.4 | c++filt | grep vtkDataArray::GetComponent
>     00000000000f8d50 T vtkDataArray::GetComponent(long long, int)
>    
>     Just out of curiosity, is this intended?
>    
>     Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
>     Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
>     8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN
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