[Paraview] Paraview v5.0.0-RC1 with OpenGL2 backend not running using OSMESA v10.5.5

[Albina, Frank]

Dear Ben!

Thank you for the reply. My idea was to run PV-5.0.0-RC1 in parallel on our cluster, 
therefore the need to recompile as the binaries do not usually ship with this feature
 and I guess that you do not necessarily know either which parallel communication 
library is going to be used  on the end user's compute platform.

If the binaries ship with SWR using prebuilt mesa  binaries, is there any documentation
on how to build the mesa binaries with SWR support? I might eventually figure it out by
myself (or not) but I would be grateful for any hints.

Cheers,

Frank.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Boeckel [mailto:ben.boeckel at kitware.com] 
Sent: Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2015 17:07
To: Ken Martin
Cc: Albina, Frank; paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Paraview v5.0.0-RC1 with OpenGL2 backend not running using OSMESA v10.5.5

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 09:18:44 -0500, Ken Martin wrote:
> people on this list are more familiar with the specifics of setting up 
> SWR and Mesa on a cluster but I wanted to at least give you a quick 
> response to let you know we are working on it :-)

The binaries built by our buildbots (and uploaded to the website) have SWR available using prebuilt mesa binaries. If you have AVX CPU extensions available, passing:

    --mesa-swr-avx

should enable it. There's also --mesa-swr-avx2 if you have AVX2 extensions available.

--Ben