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

Fri Aug 8 12:36:19 EDT 2014

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Greetings Bruno,

Thanks. And per Robert, ParaView binaries are done with vs2008 due to Python
build system. I tried to build python 2.7.8 (the very last dependency
library) with vs2013 express but failed miserably (even with what Gerson
Kurz how to list to build python 3.3.4 with Visual Studio 2013). Thankfully
I was able to find the link to download vs2008 express iso.

Thanks
-simon

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruno Santos [mailto:bruno.santos at bluecape.com.pt] 
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 12:23 PM
To: Su, Simon M CTR USARMY ARL (US); paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] [ParaView] Unofficial ParaView 4.1.0 SDK for Windows
32 and 64-bit (UNCLASSIFIED)

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:

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	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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