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

Fri Aug 8 12:22:31 EDT 2014

Greetings Simon,

The reason is simple: because the official builds of ParaView are 
usually done with MSVC 2008: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_Binaries
If we didn't use that version, it would lead to conflicts with the 
runtime libraries used by the official ParaView binaries versus the 
plug-ins built using the SDK we've provided.

Best regards,
Bruno

On 08-08-2014 16:25, Su, Simon M CTR USARMY ARL (US) wrote:
> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
>
> Hi Bruno,
>
> Can I ask why you picked MSVC 2008 C++ Express version over MSVC 2013 C++
> Express version to do the compilation?
>
> Thanks
> -simon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ParaView [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Bruno
> Santos
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 8:59 AM
> To: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: [Paraview] [ParaView] Unofficial ParaView 4.1.0 SDK for Windows 32
> and 64-bit
>
> 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#Par
> aView_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/vtkPOFFReader
> Builds
>
> 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:
> 	
>
> 	*	http://review.source.kitware.com/#/t/4487/
> 	*	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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>

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