[Paraview] paraview 3.98rc1 and protobuf

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

VTK_USE_SYSTEM_PROTOBUF ON is not supported currently. However if someone
in the community is interested in supporting that and would like us to
integrate patches into ParaView to enable the same, we'll be more than
happy to do it.

Utkarsh


On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:08 PM, <fbissey at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am on linux and I tried to configure paraview with
> VTK_USE_SYSTEM_PROTOBUF on.
> It failed miserably even though I have protobuf 2.4.0a installed. The
> message
> was informative once I figured out what the problem was:
> CMake Error at VTK/CMake/vtkModuleMacros.cmake:578 (find_package):
>   By not providing "Findprotobuf.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project
> has
>   asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "protobuf",
>   but CMake did not find one.
>
>   Could not find a package configuration file provided by "protobuf" with
> any
>   of the following names:
>
>     protobufConfig.cmake
>     protobuf-config.cmake
>
>   Add the installation prefix of "protobuf" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
>   "protobuf_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If
>   "protobuf" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
>   been installed.
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>   ThirdParty/protobuf/CMakeLists.txt:37 (vtk_module_third_party)
>
>
> The problem is that linux is case sensitive and cmake (2.8.9 and 2.8.10.1)
> install FindProtobuf.cmake. Notice the capital P? I am guessing I will
> have to
> change one of the "protobuf" to "Protobuf" in
> ThirdParty/protobuf/CMakeLists.txt.
> But one more thing is nagging me. This is happening in the VTK subfolder so
> presumably while configuring VTK. Yet I don't see any use of protobuf in
> VTK,
> only in Paraview. So it should really be a Paraview_use_system_protobuf
> setting
> and not be set up in VTK. I could of course be wrong.
>
> Cheers,
> Francois
>
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