[Paraview] 64-bit version for MacOS?

[Eric Nodwell]

Eric,

I have a couple of questions about building paraview with x86_64 architecture on OS-X:

1.  You recommend building Qt 4.6.2 from source, but there is a binary version build with x86_64 and Cocoa available from http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/mac-os-cpp (the file is qt-mac-cocoa-opensource-4.6.2.dmg) .  Is there any reason not to use this binary version of Qt instead of building Qt from source?

2. When configuring paraview 3.6.2, if I try to set VTK_USE_CARBON to OFF and VTK_USE_COCOA to ON, CMake just flips them back again when I hit Configure.  Is there any way to force this so that it can be built with Cocoa?

Thanks,
Eric


> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:55:47 -0400
> From: "Eric E. Monson" <emonson at cs.duke.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] 64-bit version for MacOS?
> To: Karen Lee <kylkaren at gmail.com>
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Message-ID: <063ACBEC-89BE-44B0-8DED-9273D3263A4F at cs.duke.edu>
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> 
> Hey Karen,
> 
> No, the 3.6.1 binary for Intel is i386 architecture. Like Mike said yesterday, you'll have to build your own version of Qt 4.6.2 with x86_64 architecture and Cocoa, and then build ParaView from source against that Qt build, itself with x86_64 arch, too.
> 
> I'm not sure if there are any issues with 64-bit ParaView Python support in Leopard since for OS X 10.5 you can't get (as far as I know) a 64-bit python executable...?
> 
> Talk to you later,
> -Eric