[Paraview] Compiling ParaView: OSMesa, Gallium, llvmpipe

Burlen Loring burlen.loring at gmail.com
Tue Nov 26 17:12:54 EST 2013


You're using VirtualBox, what is the host os? I wonder if this has 
something to do with the fact that it's a symlink? I'd try rm'ing the 
symlink and making a copy of the library named libOSMesa.so. If that 
doesn't help you could always restore the symlink.

On 11/26/2013 1:27 PM, Scott Wittenburg wrote:
> Hi paraviewers,
>
>    I'm trying to build ParaView with OSMesa (and gallium/llvmpipe) as 
> described here:
>
> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/ParaView_And_Mesa_3D
>
> I am working on a virtual box machine with Ubuntu 13.04 installed.  I 
> have followed the instructions for building osmesa and then ParaView, 
> but I have run into the following error during the ParaView compile phase:
>
> Linking CXX shared library ../../../lib/libvtkftgl-pv4.1.so 
> <http://libvtkftgl-pv4.1.so>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l/opt/mesa/9.2.2/llvmpipe/lib/libOSMesa.so
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [lib/libvtkftgl-pv4.1.so.1] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [VTK/ThirdParty/ftgl/CMakeFiles/vtkftgl.dir/all] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> scott at scott-VirtualBox:~/projects/ParaView-bin-make$ ls -al 
> /opt/mesa/9.2.2/llvmpipe/lib/libOSMesa.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Nov 26 10:45 
> /opt/mesa/9.2.2/llvmpipe/lib/libOSMesa.so -> libOSMesa.so.8.0.0
> scott at scott-VirtualBox:~/projects/ParaView-bin-make$ ls -al 
> /opt/mesa/9.2.2/llvmpipe/lib
> total 34252
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root     4096 Nov 26 10:45 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root     4096 Nov 26 10:45 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     1015 Nov 26 10:45 libOSMesa.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       18 Nov 26 10:45 libOSMesa.so -> 
> libOSMesa.so.8.0.0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       18 Nov 26 10:45 libOSMesa.so.8 -> 
> libOSMesa.so.8.0.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35056257 Nov 26 10:45 libOSMesa.so.8.0.0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Nov 26 10:45 pkgconfig
>
> As demonstrated above, the library is right where make says it can't 
> find it.  However, I'm not familiar with this form of specifying a 
> library with the '-l' flag.  Usually, I would say something like '-l 
> OSMesa', if I wanted to link against 'libOSMesa.so', then I would say 
> where it is located with the 'L' flag.  Anyway, does anyone have any 
> idea what I could have done wrong to achieve this error?  I have 
> included my CMakeCache.txt, but I can provide other information if it 
> would be useful.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> Scott
>
>
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