[Paraview] Superbuild: Passing VTK parameter?

[Angelini, Richard C (Rick) CIV USARMY ARL (US)]

OK - so that brings up the point that I was working towards.   I'm relatively new to building ParaView, but in the past, I'm told that we did not use the OSmesa build, we used to build Mesa with VTK_USE_OFFSCREEN=on which apparently achieved the same thing.     I have done the OSmesa build and it does exactly what I want, but it's also forcing me to do two builds - an OSMesa build for the compute node that doesn't have an Xwindow server, and a Mesa build for remote X display from the login node.   I was really looking to see if I could get by with just one build as we've apparently done in the past.

Or am I totally wrong and just need to do two builds?  8-)


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Rick Angelini

USArmy Research Laboratory
CISD/HPC Architectures Team
Building 120 Cube 315
Phone:  410-278-6266

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From: Utkarsh Ayachit [utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com]
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 10:03 AM
To: Angelini, Richard C (Rick) CIV USARMY ARL (US)
Cc: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Superbuild: Passing VTK parameter?

Rick,

The instrastructure doesnt' support passing flags to ParaView yet.
However to build ParaView with OSMesa (which is needed for OffScreen),
you can simply enable "osmesa". Note when osmesa is enabled, Qt and
Mesa cannot be enabled (you'll get cmake errors if they are).

Utkarsh

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Angelini, Richard C (Rick) CIV USARMY
ARL (US) <richard.c.angelini.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
> I want to pass a VTK build parameter from the Superbuild down into the
> depths of the ParaView build.   In my top level cmake command, I'm passing
> the flag:
>
> -DVTK_USE_OFFSCREEN:BOOL=ON \
>
> but if I look in the paraview/src/*build/CMakeCache.txt file I'm getting
> this:
>
> VTK_USE_OFFSCREEN:BOOL=OFF
>
> Should I be able to pass this parameter from the top-level cmake command in
> the Superbuild?
>
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