[Paraview] [ParaView] Unofficial ParaView 4.1.0 SDK for Windows 32 and 64-bit

[Bruno Santos]

Greetings to all!

We at blueCAPE have made available an unofficial SDK of ParaView 4.1.0 
for Windows 32 and 64-bit, based on the official SuperBuild and 
respective build options. It's available here: 
https://code.google.com/p/unofficial-paraview-dev-install/wiki/Downloads#ParaView_4.1.0
Instructions on how these packages were built is provided here: 
https://code.google.com/p/unofficial-paraview-dev-install/wiki/Notes410

According to our tests, it's possible to use this SDK to build plug-ins 
and any other associated applications, which will work with the 
respective official ParaView 4.1.0 builds for Windows. A proof of 
concept we've used is the vtkPOFFReader plug-in which was successfully 
built with these SDK packages: 
https://code.google.com/p/unofficial-paraview-dev-install/wiki/vtkPOFFReaderBuilds

Note: We roughly used the same development environment as the original 
ParaView 4.1.0 binaries for Windows: 
http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_Binaries - although we've used 
MSVC 2008 C++ Express and did not have a respective FORTRAN compiler 
(which requires the Professional version either way), which is why we 
needed to do some adjustments to build Open-MPI with success.

Furthermore, here's a bit of a back story and the current status of this 
endeavour:

  * Back in January 2012 we at blueCAPE began to try to bring back the
    development installers of ParaView for Windows, which was last
    officially available for ParaView 3.8.1.
  * The overall features available in the development installers we
    created were still missing important files, because we were still
    basing ourselves on the infrastructure that was still remnant from
    ParaView 3.8.1.
  * Nonetheless, we made available our findings and builds for ParaView
    3.12.0, 3.14.0, 3.14.1 and 3.98.0, where the last release we managed
    to build was back in January 2013.
  * ParaView fortunately kept evolving since then. We missed the
    versions 3.98.1 and 4.0.1, due to time constraints on our side and a
    few failed builds.
  * As far as we can see, ParaView 4.1.0 already has a pretty good SDK
    structure which evolved overtime. The official SuperBuild repository
    also already provides many of the necessary features for making the
    SDK releases, at least for the Unix-like environments.
  * This Summer 2014 we at blueCAPE finally managed to get around back
    to trying and adjust the SuperBuild settings to build and deliver a
    ParaView 4.1.0 SDK for Windows and believe we have successfully
    achieved it. The changes have been shared and referenced in the
    following wiki page at our project:
    https://code.google.com/p/unofficial-paraview-dev-install/wiki/Notes410
  * In addition to this, after some reviewing and building tests with
    the latest commits on the master branch from the SuperBuild
    repository, we have adapted most of the changes we've developed for
    the SDK build above and have submitted two commits to Kitware
    Gerrit, namely:
      o http://review.source.kitware.com/#/t/4487/
      o http://review.source.kitware.com/#/t/4488/
  * We haven't managed to create the NSIS and ZIP packages through
    CMake/CPack, but our main concern has mostly been on having a
    working SDK.

Hopefully this can help bring sooner the ParaView SDK in future versions 
in a more official way... so that we won't have to look into generating 
the NSIS/ZIP packages ourselves, nor build Qt 4.8.6 ;)

If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask!

Best regards,
Bruno Santos

PS: I haven't sent this email to the ParaView Developers mailing list 
simply because previous emails I've sent on this topic have been to this 
main mailing list.

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