[Paraview] Building Catalyst

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

These are more of warning than errors. Catalyst can be thought of as a
stripped down ParaView. Several modules/components are removed to keep
the package small. There will be several "editions" of catalyst based
on which components they contain. The idea is one decides which
filters/components they are interested in using in-situ. Then we can
create a custom edition containing only those filters and the
components needed to get those filters working. This is to keep the
library size small for production runs. For testing, ParaView itself
includes the library against which the simulation adaptors can link.
Thus one can create/test adaptors using a regular ParaView itself.
That will have all the modules ParaView includes and hence one can
experiment with the which filters to use and pick to come up with the
short list of filters that can then be used to create a custom
edition. Within the next week or so, we are will have a couple more
editions available that will include some of the commonly used
filters.

Hope that clarifies things  a bit. FYI, there's a user's guide
available too that may help clarify this:
http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2013-July/028795.html

Utkarsh

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Vanmoer, Mark W <mvanmoer at illinois.edu> wrote:
> Okay, I was able to compile and run a Fortran code using the FortranAdaptorAPI and I'm getting some errors. (I had this code working with coprocessing and ParaView 3.14.1, so in theory it should still work).
>
> Error: Could not import vtkCommonComputationalGeometryPython
> Error: Could not import vtkCommonMiscPython
> Error: Could not import vtkCommonSystemPython
> Error: Could not import vtkRenderingCorePython
> Error: Could not import vtkFiltersCore
> Error: Cannot import vtkPVServerManagerDefaultPython
> Error: Cannot import vtkPVServerManagerRenderingPython
> Error: Cannot import vtkPVServerManagerApplicationPython
> Error: Could not create TimeKeeper
> Error: Could not create AnimationScene
>
> How do I get Catalyst to import these? Is it just a matter of setting $PYTHONPATH?
>
> Mark
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:05 PM
>> To: Vanmoer, Mark W
>> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Building Catalyst
>>
>> Great! Feel free to ping the list if you run into issues or need assistance.
>>
>> Utkarsh
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Vanmoer, Mark W
>> <mvanmoer at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> > Utkarsh,
>> > It did build this time, thank you.
>> > Mark
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Vanmoer, Mark W
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:57 AM
>> >> To: 'Utkarsh Ayachit'
>> >> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
>> >> Subject: RE: [Paraview] Building Catalyst
>> >>
>> >> Utkarsh,
>> >> I was just running ccmake, I read the wiki as cmake.sh was for
>> >> building Catalyst from the ParaView source tree. I'll try the
>> >> cmake.sh with the new tarball and report back.
>> >>
>> >> Mark
>> >>
>> >> > -----Original Message-----
>> >> > From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com]
>> >> > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:52 AM
>> >> > To: Vanmoer, Mark W
>> >> > Cc: paraview at paraview.org
>> >> > Subject: Re: [Paraview] Building Catalyst
>> >> >
>> >> > Mark,
>> >> >
>> >> > No, you wouldn't need to use any external VTK. I've posted an
>> >> > updated tarball. Feel free to give that a try. Also, how are you
>> >> > starting the build? Using cmake.sh script included in the package?
>> >> >
>> >> > Utkarsh
>> >> >
>> >> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Vanmoer, Mark W
>> >> > <mvanmoer at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> >> > > Hi, I'm trying to build Catalyst using the tarball from the
>> >> > > Catalyst download page. I'm getting the following error during
>> >> > > the CMake configure
>> >> > > step:
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > > CMake Error at VTK/CMake/vtkModuleTop.cmake:29 (message):
>> >> > >
>> >> > >    No such module "vtkChartsCore" needed by
>> >> > "vtkPVServerManagerApplication"
>> >> > >
>> >> > >    Call Stack (most recent call first):
>> >> > >
>> >> > >    VTK/CMake/vtkModuleTop.cmake:45 (vtk_module_check)
>> >> > >
>> >> > >    VTK/CMake/vtkModuleTop.cmake:52 (vtk_module_check)
>> >> > >
>> >> > >    VTK/CMakeLists.txt:348 (include)
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Is all of the necessary VTK with the Catalyst tarball, or do I
>> >> > > need to have a separate VTK build?
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Thanks,
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Mark
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
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