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

Wed May 2 11:04:08 EDT 2012

I am running CMake 2.8.7 for these builds. I am also using VS2008 SP1 for the build because I need it match exactly the Kitware build environment. I didn't do anything special in the install of Visual Studio. I did put the CMake installation in C:/Applications (where I put some other items).

 I pulled the ParaView source from the ParaView download page and unpacked it.

 I do run Windows 7 x64 Ult in a Parallels Virtual Machine hosted on OS X 10.6.8. The VM has 4 CPUs and 4GB of Memory. The host system has 32GB of RAM.

The other interesting part is that I tool a look at my HDF5 1.8.7 source (Directly from the HDF5 group) and the H5public.h file is different from that included with VTK/Utilities. In the VTK/Utilities/vtkhdf5 version there is an extra
#ifdef WIN32
#undef ssize_t
#endif

Which I am not sure why it is needed. I see that the version of HDF5 that is included with VTK is HDF5 1.8.5-post2 which was still being developed. The latest is 1.8.8 with a soon to be released 1.8.9. I know there have been some bug fixes to the CMake files in these later versions. Maybe that would help to update HDF5 to a slightly newer version. 
   I build HDF5 in both 32 and 64 bit without issues on windows all the time.

 Comments Welcome.
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Mike Jackson <www.bluequartz.net>

On May 2, 2012, at 10:42 AM, Robert Maynard wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I use Visual Studio 2008 Professional to generate the ParaView binaries and have to do no modification of Silo or NetCDF. I feel the problem might be related to using a older version of CMake that isn't properly executing all the custom build steps. We have a custom step for Silo that does upgrade the solution file.
> 
> The install issue with png feels like that it is not properly building the project. The png project doesn't have any fancy custom steps, so I wonder if it is a time stamp issue and ExternalProject thinks png is built when it actually isn't. If you fully
> remove the png-build and png-prefix directories does it properly build and install than? 
> 
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Michael Jackson <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> 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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