[Paraview] ParaView 3.8.0 Not Installing Client Plugins correctly.

[Dave Partyka]

How are you building your plugin? I believe that the ADD_PARAVIEW_PLUGIN
macro constructs the list of Plugins that get written into the .plugins
file.

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Mike Jackson
<mike.jackson at bluequartz.net>wrote:

> So then what is the point of having ParaView look in the plugins
> directory if it is not going to be used. Why not just have ParaView
> look in the "bin" folder (at least on windows)?
>
> I see there is a file called ".plugins" inside the bin directory. Mine
> has the following content:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <Plugins>
>  <Plugin name="SierraPlotTools" auto_load="0"/>
>  <Plugin name="SurfaceLIC" auto_load="0"/>
>  <Plugin name="AnalyzeReader" auto_load="0"/>
>  <Plugin name="AnalyzeWriter" auto_load="0"/>
>  <Plugin name="NIfTIReader" auto_load="0"/>
>  <Plugin name="NIfTIWriter" auto_load="0"/>
> </Plugins>
>
> This is missing my plugins although the plugins are "installed" in the
> bin directory during the "INSTALL" project build. There is another
> file in the build directory called "PluginList.txt" that _does_ list
> my plugins though.
> _________________________________________________________
> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
> BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
> Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> > Mike,
> >
> > That was a conscious decision. We deliberately install all plugin dlls
> > in the same directory as the paraview.exe on windows, just to avoid
> > missing dlls issues at runtime. Originally, we had the separate
> > "plugins" directory to make it easier for users to locate the plugins
> > and load them manually. But now, that's a non-issue, since paraview
> > explicitly lists all the plugins it's distributed with in the plugin
> > manager dialog.
> >
> > Are you saying that the plugins added using
> > PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULES are not being installed at all? If
> > that's the case, then it's definitely a bug.
> >
> > As far as the package generation goes, you need to use CPack. Refer to
> > this wiki page for details:
> > http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Build_And_Install#Install_ParaView
> >
> > Utkarsh
> >
> > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Mike Jackson
> > <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
> >> Pulled ParaView 3.8.0 from Git. Configured with CMake for VS2008 x64
> >> with PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULES listing 4 of my custom plugins.
> >> Compiled. Installed. And all the "client" plugins are installed lose
> >> into the ParaView-3.8.0/bin directory instead of
> >> ParaView-3.8.0/bin/plugins. Also, I have NSIS installed, where is the
> >> "PACKAGE" target in the VS Solution or is there another mechanism to
> >> use to create the installer?
> >>  The other (probably more likely) possibility is that I didn't really
> >> pull the 3.8.0 tag from git and instead have some other tag.
> >>
> >> # On branch v3.8.0
> >> # Changed but not updated:
> >> #   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
> >> #   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working
> directory)
> >> #
> >> #       modified:   CMake/FindHDF5.cmake
> >> #
> >> # Untracked files:
> >> #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
> >> #
> >> #       .cproject
> >> #       .project
> >> #       Applications/ParaView/Testing/XML/Fractal3D.xml
> >> #       CMake/AdjustLibVars.cmake
> >> #       CMake/_FindHDF5.cmake
> >> #       i386/
> >> #       x64/
> >> no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
> >>
> >>  I just tried this with the ParaView 3.8.0 source code .zip file from
> >> the paraview.org web site and had the same results. I also built the
> >> NSIS installer, and then actually ran the installer and the same issue
> >> happens. Bug?
> >> _________________________________________________________
> >> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
> >> BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
> >> Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio
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