[Paraview] Building a ParaView plugin

[John Haiducek]

That did the trick, thanks!

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Peter Schmitt <pschmittml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> You might be able to get past the "error while loading shared libraries:
> libvtkCommon.so.pv3.8" problem by prepending to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  In
> bash:
>
> export
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=..../path/containing/libvtkCommon.so.pv3.8:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
>
> Cheers,
> Pete
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:13 PM, John Haiducek <jhaiduce at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the tip, Utkarsh.
>>
>> Now I'm having some difficulty with CMake (I've not used CMake enough to
>> get comfortable with it yet).
>>
>> My CMakeLists.txt is:
>>
>> cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
>>  FIND_PACKAGE(ParaView REQUIRED)
>>  INCLUDE(${PARAVIEW_USE_FILE})
>>
>> ADD_PARAVIEW_PLUGIN(AddTetraLayer "1.0"
>>   SERVER_MANAGER_XML vtkAddTetraLayer_SM.xml
>>   SERVER_MANAGER_SOURCES vtkAddTetraLayer.cxx
>>   GUI_RESOURCE_FILES vtkAddTetraLayer_GUI.xml)
>>
>>
>> When I do a "generate" in ccmake, I get this:
>>
>>  CMake Warning at
>> /usr/local/lib/paraview-3.8/CMake/ParaViewPlugins.cmake:986 (ADD_LIBRARY):
>>    Cannot generate a safe runtime search path for target AddTetraLayer
>> because
>>    files in some directories may conflict with libraries in implicit
>>    directories:
>>
>>      runtime library [libQtCore.so.4] in /usr/lib64 may be hidden by files
>> in:
>>        /usr/local/lib/paraview-3.8
>>
>>    Some of these libraries may not be found correctly.
>>  Call Stack (most recent call first):
>>    CMakeLists.txt:9 (ADD_PARAVIEW_PLUGIN)
>>
>>
>> I am then able to build in spite of the error, but the output looks like:
>>
>> [  9%] Generating qrc_AddTetraLayer.cxx
>> [ 18%] Generating vtkSMXML_AddTetraLayer.h
>> /usr/local/bin/kwProcessXML: error while loading shared libraries:
>> libvtkCommon.so.pv3.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>> directory
>> make[2]: *** [vtkSMXML_AddTetraLayer.h] Error 127
>> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/AddTetraLayer.dir/all] Error 2
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> Can anyone tell me how to fix these errors?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <
>> utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> You need to compile a plugin and load that, simply loading the XML
>>> wouldn't do. Look at the example in
>>> ${ParaViewSource}/Examples/Plugins/Filter to see how to write the
>>> CMakeLists.txt to build such a plugin.
>>>
>>> Refer to the Wiki for additional details:
>>> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo#Adding_a_new_VTK_filter
>>>
>>> Utkarsh
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 2:47 PM, John Haiducek <jhaiduce at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I downloaded a new vtk class (vtkAddTetraLayer) from
>>> > http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~blloyd/Extrusion/<http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/%7Eblloyd/Extrusion/>.
>>> I compiled the
>>> > vtkAddTetraLayer.cxx to a shared library. I can then load the plugin
>>> using
>>> > the Server Manager XML file, but when I try to use it I get:
>>> >
>>> > ERROR: In
>>> >
>>> /home/haiduced/Downloads/ParaView-3.8.1/Servers/Common/vtkProcessModule.cxx,
>>> > line 1065
>>> > vtkProcessModule (0x861b60): Cannot create object of type
>>> > "vtkAddTetraLayer".
>>> > while processing
>>> > Message 0 = New
>>> >   Argument 0 = string_value {vtkAddTetraLayer}
>>> >   Argument 1 = id_value {1068}
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ERROR: In
>>> >
>>> /home/haiduced/Downloads/ParaView-3.8.1/Servers/Common/vtkProcessModule.cxx,
>>> > line 1066
>>> > vtkProcessModule (0x861b60): Aborting execution for debugging purposes.
>>> >
>>> > So ParaView doesn't know about this vtk class. Is there a way to tell
>>> > ParaView that the class is defined in the shared library
>>> > vtkAddTetraLayer.so? Is there a way to access this new class from
>>> ParaView
>>> > without recompiling VTK and ParaView from scratch?
>>> >
>>> > John Haiducek
>>> >
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