[Paraview] Undefined symbols when building an example reader plugin

[Cory Quammen]

Thanks, Utkarsh.

I filed a bug report: http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=13652

Cory

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> I think need to fix this. Plugins should not need to link against anything extra unless they explicitly add dependencies on other modules.
>
> Cory, temporarily fix the issue as david suggested but we'll have that fixed before the release so you won't have to.
>
> Utkarsh
>
>
> On Nov 13, 2012, at 9:26 AM, David Lonie <david.lonie at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:05 AM, David Lonie <david.lonie at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Cory Quammen <cquammen at cs.unc.edu> wrote:
>>>> Just a followup:
>>>>
>>>> My plugins build and link against ParaView 3.98-RC1 without error, so
>>>> a regression has been introduced since then.
>>>>
>>>> Cory
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Cory Quammen <cquammen at cs.unc.edu> wrote:
>>>>> Takuya,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a similar problem with a simple VTK filter plugin and a
>>>>> representation plugin. Unfortunately, I don't have a better solution
>>>>> than what you propose, but I just wanted to confirm that this is a new
>>>>> problem, at least on Mac OS X.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cory
>>>
>>> The quick work-around is to link your plugin against
>>> vtkRenderingMatplotlib when python is enabled. We do this for part of
>>> the CoProcessing plugin that comes with ParaView. This is not a good
>>> long term solution IMO, but hopefully someone with a better knowledge
>>> of the modular build system can propose a better solution...
>>
>> A better solution was pointed out to me off-list -- try adding
>>
>> include(${PARAVIEW_USE_FILE})
>>
>> and then linking against ${VTK_LIBRARIES}. This should be better in
>> the long-term.
>>
>> Dave
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Cory Quammen
Research Associate
Department of Computer Science
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill