[Paraview] Secrets of the ParaView install process

[Berk Geveci]

Hi John,

Which version of Qt/ParaView are you using? It is very possible that
it has been broken since 3.4. I think some changes were made to
accommodate for Qt 4.4 assistant change but I am not sure if it was
tested yet.

-berk

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 6:05 AM, John Biddiscombe <biddisco at cscs.ch> wrote:
> After some experimentation, python now works (astonished surprise) - the
> main trick appear to be to cpoy the python lib dir structure into the
> correct relative place in the install tree.
>
> qt-assistant still does not work. The assisstant help issue appears to be
> caused by paraview invoking the wrong command line, but I don't understand
> why.
>
> Also...I forgot to ask first time around.
> why are the iceT DLLs installed into lib when all other dlls are installed
> into the bin directory. (Is this a simple mistake, or is ther a real
> reason?)
>
> JB
>>
>> I tried to create an install package of (tweaked) paraview + plugins on
>> windows.
>>
>> All runs fine except that
>> 1) Python dlls (etc) are not included in the distribution
>> 2) QtAssistant won't run - so help is unavailable.
>>
>> Are there special tricks required to make paraview include the necessary
>> python dll's (and init scripts?) - I'm using python 2.6. I notice that the
>> paraview 3.4 release on the kitware website uses python 2.5. Should I revert
>> to 2.5 to solve the problem. Are things 'hard coded' for 2.5 that don't work
>> for 2.6.
>> If I use the zip installer, I can manually add python libs to the
>> distribution, if I uses the NSIS installer I cannot. The ParaView3.4 release
>> uses NSIS - so was some secret process involved in adding these files?
>>
>> For QtAssistant, I don't know why it won't run. any clues welcome (path?)
>>
>> NB. I have not set any
>> PATH,
>> PV_PLUGIN_PATH,
>> PYTHON_XXX_???
>>
>> Variables. should I setup a batch file which initializes these and then
>> calls paraview (plugins load fine if they are in the plugins directory)
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> JB
>>
>
>
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