[Paraview] libOSMesa.so is missing during Mesa installation for ParaView off-screen Rendering

[Francois Bissey]

On 06/10/13 07:11, Oz Wizard wrote:
> I am trying to setup a Virtual Box for doing off-screen rendering with
> ParaView. I have Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit Server installed in the box. For
> setting up ParaView and Mesa I have followed the instructions the links
> below:
> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/Parallel_Rendering#Offscreen_Software_Rendering_via_OSMesa
> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/ParaView_And_Mesa_3D
> Installation of Mesa completes fine without and errors or warnings but
> when I try to build ParaView and try to configure it for off-screen
> rendering, it gives an error in the middle of the "make" complaining
> about missing "libOSMesa.so". I searched the whole machine but that file
> is not there. It seems like it didn't get installed.
> Am I supposed to install a library before building Mesa? How can I get
> that "libOSMesa.so" installed. Thanks for the help in advance.
> 
> 

Did you configure Mesa with "--enable-osmesa"? It is turned off by default.

Francois