[Paraview] SuperBuild errors with VS2008 win32 (On Win7 Ult x64)

[Michael Jackson]

That didn't work. I think because in H5public.h ssize_t is a typedef and NetCDF is using a #define instead? My c fu isn't that strong to figure it out. I'll just comment it out and move on.
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Mike Jackson <www.bluequartz.net>

On May 2, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:

> I took a look at that page a it struck me that at least one of the errors (ncconfig.h.in) is clearly a bug. From the wiki page are your hints:
> 
> • Problems with vtkNetCDF when building win32 with MSVC2008:
> • The error message was paraview-3.14.1-superbuild\include\H5public.h(133) : error C2632: 'int' followed by 'int' is illegal.
> • To fix this, go to the folder ParaView-xxx-SuperBuild\ParaView-build\VTK\Utilities\vtknetcdf and edit the file ncconfig.h.
> 
> The relevant lines are:
> 
> /* Define to `int' if system doesn't define.  */
> #cmakedefine ssize_t @ssize_t@
> 
> Those lines should probably be:
> 
> #ifndef ssize_t
> #cmakedefine ssize_t @ssize_t@
> #endif
> 
> Because the issue is that NetCDF pulls in HDF5 and ssize_t is already defined in H5public.h.
> 
> My other question to the Kitware folks is that why are the NOT getting this error on their builds? I'll assume they are NOT getting the error because nothing in the SuperBuild would indicate this type of patch is needed for their builds?
> ___________________________________________________________
> Mike Jackson                    Principal Software Engineer
> BlueQuartz Software                            Dayton, Ohio
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> On May 2, 2012, at 6:29 AM, Bruno Santos wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I had problems with this as well and documented the process here: http://code.google.com/p/unofficial-paraview-dev-install/wiki/Notes3141
>> There you might also find answers for your other question.
>> 
>> On 02-05-2012 01:49, paraview-request at paraview.org wrote:
>>> From: Michael Jackson<mike.jackson at bluequartz.net>
>>> Subject: [Paraview] SuperBuild errors with VS2008 win32 (On Win7 Ult
>>> 	x64)
>>> To: ParaView<paraview at paraview.org>
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>>> 
>>> I am attempting to run the SuperBuild for ParaView Version 3.14.1
>>> (Source downloaded from link on downloads page). At least when
>>> building a 32 bit windows executable using VS 2008 SP1 the png gives a
>>> few installation errors. It can not find and therefor install the
>>> following files:
>>> 
>>> libpng-config
>>> libpng15-config
>>> libpng.pc
>>> libpng15.pc
>>> 
>>> Not sure if this is causing my other build issues later on but just
>>> wanted to mention this.
>>> 
>>> I somehow got SuperBuild to compile in win64 mode to get 64 bit
>>> binaries. Not sure where the failure between the 2 lies.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for any help or clarifications.
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