[Paraview] ParaView not building "pvserver"

[Burlen Loring]

Hi Bill,

It sounds like you've not configured your build correctly.

> do I need to have PARAVIEW_USE_MPI 
yes. it's Cray what's the point of running a serial build there?

> I'm using is MPICH 3.0.4, and I've compiled
> it myself
don't do that, :-). Better use highly optimized Cray MPT on Cray systems.

You need to set MPI_C_INCLUDE_PATH/MPI_CXX_INCLUDE_PATH and 
MPI_C_LIBRARIES/MPI_CXX_LIBRARIES.

Make sure your using PrgEnv-gnu then you can dump the libraries and 
paths that are used with "CC --verbose". Also CRAY_LD_LIBRARY_PATH can 
be helpful for getting the right system paths.

> the
> Plugin's don't compile. 
If you're trying to static link, that's a known issue and was just 
recently fixed. IMO It's better to have them off when static linking 
anyway, cause they'll *all* be automatically loaded on the server side 
and you'll need to do the same in the client(or it will crash) which is 
a bit of a pain, and confusing for new users.

On 09/29/2013 08:30 PM, William Sherman wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> So I've been working on getting ParaView compiled on a new
> Cray XE/XK7 system, and I seem to have made some progress,
> but not enough to have ParaView running.
>
> So my main problem is that when I do get the make process
> to complete, it doesn't produce the "pvserver" executable.
> Here's what it does produce:
>     % ls bin
>     H5detect               vtkmkg3states-pv4.0 vtkWrapHierarchy-pv4.0
>     H5make_libsettings     vtkParseJava-pv4.0 vtkWrapJava-pv4.0
>     protoc                 vtkParseOGLExt-pv4.0 vtkWrapPythonInit-pv4.0
>     smTestDriver           vtkProcessShader-pv4.0 vtkWrapPython-pv4.0
>     vtkEncodeString-pv4.0  vtkpython vtkWrapTclInit-pv4.0
>     vtkHashSource-pv4.0    vtkWrapClientServer-pv4.0 vtkWrapTcl-pv4.0
>
> So there's no "paraview" itself because I turned off the
> QT-GUI flag.  As this is an HPC machine, I expect to use
> it in server mode.
>
>
> There is another problem, which I'm not sure whether it's
> related or not, and that is that I can't get it to compile
> when the PARAVIEW_USE_MPI flag is on.
>
> So I guess my first question is: do I need to have PARAVIEW_USE_MPI
> on in order to get "pvserver" built?  In theory, I can choose
> to run with only one "pvserver" process, in which case it doesn't
> need MPI, but in general of course one would run more than one.
> But I think in other circumstances I've compiled "pvserver" without
> MPI, so I'm not sure whether this is the problem.  (But I'm not
> sure what's going on with MPI.)
>
>
> I'll attach the "CMakeCache.txt" file since that may provide a
> clue to someone who knows what they're looking for -- I didn't
> notice anything that would indicate why no "pvserver".
>
>
> As for the MPI issue, I continue to get a message of this type:
>
> ---------
> [ 19%] Building CXX object 
> VTK/Parallel/MPI/CMakeFiles/vtkParallelMPI.dir/vtkMPIController.cxx.o
> Linking CXX shared library 
> ../../../lib/libvtkParallelMPI-pv4.0.so/usr/bin/ld: 
> /N/soft/cle4/paraview/MPI/install-3.0.4/lib/libmpich.a(setbotf.o): 
> relocation R_X86_64_32 against `mpifcmb2_' can not be used when making 
> a shared object; recompile with 
> -fPIC/N/soft/cle4/paraview/MPI/install-3.0.4/lib/libmpich.a: could not 
> read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [lib/libvtkParallelMPI-pv4.0.so.1] Error 1make[1]: *** 
> [VTK/Parallel/MPI/CMakeFiles/vtkParallelMPI.dir/all] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> ----------
>
> So the MPI version that I'm using is MPICH 3.0.4, and I've compiled
> it myself, and I set environment variables to cause the -fPIC compile
> flag to be used, but that doesn't seem to help.  Not sure what's
> going on there, or what command to run to verify that the -fPIC
> flag took.
>
>
> I'm using this version of gcc/g++ for both paraview and MPICH:
>     g++ (GCC) 4.8.1 20130531 (Cray Inc.)
>
>
> There is one other thing I'm mention in case it's related -- the
> Plugin's don't compile.  I have to disable all the plugins in order
> to get through the compilation process.
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
>     Thank you in advance,
>     Bill
>
> -- 
> Bill Sherman
> Sr. Technology Advisor
> Advanced Visualization Lab
> Pervasive Technology Inst
> Indiana University
> shermanw at indiana.edu
>
>
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