[Paraview] failed to launch paraview.exe

Fri Feb 18 11:01:30 EST 2011

It isn't required but is used to do some hardware support queries. Are you
getting compile/configure errors complaining about not finding some part of
DirectX?

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Xunlei Wu <xunlei at renci.org> wrote:

> Thanks a lot, David and Utkarsh. I was obnoxious about Qt aspect totally.
> By using this thread, can you comment on using DirectX with Paraview on
> Windows?
>
> Best,
>
> x
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* David Partyka [mailto:david.partyka at kitware.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, February 18, 2011 10:54 AM
> *To:* Xunlei Wu
>
> *Cc:* Utkarsh Ayachit; paraview at paraview.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] failed to launch paraview.exe
>
>
>
> You should using matching compilers for both ParaView and Qt especially if
> one is built debug and the other release. Unfortunately ParaView does not
> build Qt for you.
>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Xunlei Wu <xunlei at renci.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Utkarsh,
>
> It is the same setup with my MSVC2008 ParaView, where Qt is a prebuild
> release with MSVC2008 from
> http://code.google.com/p/qt-msvc-installer/downloads/list
> Very good catch!!! Does that mean I should either rebuild Qt with MSVC2010
> or let ParaView build Qt along the way?
>
>
> Best,
> x
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com]
>
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 10:25 AM
> To: Xunlei Wu
> Cc: David Partyka; paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] failed to launch paraview.exe
>
> Xulei,
>
> Just to be sure you are using Qt that was built with the same compilter
> right?
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Xunlei Wu <xunlei at renci.org> wrote:
> > Hi David and Utkarsh,
> >
> > With your new patch on Python _DEBUG from git source, I was able to
> > build on
> > MSVC2010 without any PYTHON related hitches. I still have issues with
> > VTK_WRAP_PYTHON_SIP as I reported earlier though.
> >
> > When I launched the newly built paraview.exe I got the exact same
> > error in pqApplicationCore.cxx, line 725:
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> > vtkSMApplication::GetApplication()->GetPluginManager()->LoadPluginConf
> > igurationXML(
> >
> >          config_file.toStdString().c_str());
> >
> >
> >
>
> > QString config_file has value
> "C:/ParaViewGit_VS2010/bin/Debug/../.plugins".
> > However, config_file.toStdString() has corrupted content.
> >
> >
> >
> > BTW, shall I care about DirectX_LIBRARY? It appears ParaView's
> > vtkRendering only uses DirectX9. Does including DirectX help ParaView
> > performance on Windows machine?
> >
> >
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > x
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: David Partyka [mailto:david.partyka at kitware.com]
> > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 1:36 PM
> > To: Xunlei Wu
> > Cc: Utkarsh Ayachit; paraview at paraview.org
> >
> > Subject: Re: [Paraview] failed to launch paraview.exe
> >
> >
> >
> > Just to confirm. The VS10 x64 build on our nightly dashboard launches
> > without issue.
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Xunlei Wu <xunlei at renci.org> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, David. Please give me a day or two. I just flooded the VS10
> > build directory with my previous successful VS08 build in order to get
> > some work done. I will build through VS10 tomorrow night.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > x
> >
> >
> >
> > From: David Partyka [mailto:david.partyka at kitware.com]
> > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 1:23 PM
> > To: Utkarsh Ayachit
> > Cc: Xunlei Wu; paraview at paraview.org
> >
> > Subject: Re: [Paraview] failed to launch paraview.exe
> >
> >
> >
> > We do test nightly with VS10 and one of our developers actively uses
> > it as well so it "should" work. Have you tried running paraview with -dr
> command?
> > In the mean time I will try and run the vs10 build on the dashboard
> machine.
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
> > <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> >
> > Honestly, I am not the best guy to comment about windows, I use linux
> > for most of my development. Dave, any insights?
> >
> > What is the value of config_file variable in pqApplicationCore.cxx:725?
> >
> > Utkarsh
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Xunlei Wu <xunlei at renci.org> wrote:
> >> Hi Utkarsh,
> >> This is the only copy of ParaView I am building from git source. I
> >> have no ther VTK installation.
> >> BTW, do you see many issues with MSVC2010? I am frustrated with
> >> ParaView building process and not sure whether it is compiler/IDE
> >> related. Thanks a lot.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> x
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com]
> >> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 1:13 PM
> >> To: Xunlei Wu
> >> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Paraview] failed to launch paraview.exe
> >>
> >> Are you sure there isn't some dll conflict issue? Do you have other
> >> installations of ParaView?
> >>
> >> Utkarsh
> >>
> >> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Xunlei Wu <xunlei at renci.org> wrote:
> >>> Hi All,
> >>>
> >>> I am trying to run paraview.exe after built it (Debug version) on a
> >>> Windows7 64bit + MSVC2010 machine. However the application failed to
> >>> run the following call stack:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>        vtksys.dll!vtksys::SystemTools::FileExists(const char *
> >>> filename=0xcccccccccccccccc)  Line 928 + 0xd bytes  C++
> >>>
> >>>>      vtksys.dll!vtksys::SystemTools::FileExists(const char *
> >>>>filename=0xcccccccccccccccc, bool isFile=true)  Line 950 + 0xa bytes
> >>>>C++
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> vtkPVServerManager.dll!vtkSMPluginManager::LoadPluginConfigurationXM
>
> >>> L( const char * filename=0xcccccccccccccccc)  Line 97 + 0x10 bytes
>
> >>> C++
> >>>
> >>>       pqCore.dll!pqApplicationCore::loadDistributedPlugins(const
> >>> char
> >>> *
> >>> filename=0x0000000000000000)  Line 726 + 0x5d bytes     C++
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The related lines of code might be:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> pqApplicationCore.cxx:line 725
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> vtkSMApplication::GetApplication()->GetPluginManager()->LoadPluginCo
> >>> nf
> >>> igurationXML(
> >>>
> >>>     config_file.toStdString().c_str());
> >>>
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Where config_file is "C:/ParaViewGit/bin/Debug/../.plugins". Such
> >>> file is attached. After the process runs into vtkSMPluginManager
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> void vtkSMPluginManager::LoadPluginConfigurationXML(const char*
> >>> filename)
> >>>
> >>> {
> >>>
> >>>   bool debug_plugin = vtksys::SystemTools::GetEnv("PV_PLUGIN_DEBUG")
> >>> != NULL;
> >>>
> >>>   vtkPVPluginLoaderDebugMacro("Loading plugin configuration xml: "
> >>> << filename);
> >>>
> >>>   if (!vtksys::SystemTools::FileExists(filename, true))
> >>>
> >>>     {
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Where filename becomes "0xcccccccccccccccc <Bad Ptr>". Any idea?
> >>> Thanks a lot.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>>
> >>> x
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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