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

[Albina, Frank]

Hi Ben!

Thank you very much for the information. I will try to work my way into getting PV 5.0 compiled with OpenSWR-Mesa & MPI. 

Best regards,
 
Frank Albina 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Boeckel [mailto:ben.boeckel at kitware.com] 
Sent: Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2015 17:45
To: Albina, Frank
Cc: Ken Martin; 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 17:20:35 +0100, Albina, Frank wrote:
> 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.

Here's the relevant subset of the Dockerfile Utkarsh used:

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WORKDIR /opt/tools/src/openswr-mesa
RUN git clone https://github.com/OpenSWR/openswr-mesa.git src-avx2 --depth 1 -b 11.0-openswr WORKDIR /opt/tools/src/openswr-mesa/src-avx2
RUN scons build=release texture_float=yes swr_arch=core-avx2 libgl-xlib

WORKDIR /opt/tools/mesa-swr-avx2
RUN cp /opt/tools/src/openswr-mesa/src-avx2/build/linux-x86_64/gallium/targets/libgl-xlib/libGL.so.1.5 . && \
    ln -s libGL.so.1 libGL.so && \
    ln -s libGL.so.1.5 libGL.so.1

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WORKDIR /opt/tools/src/openswr-mesa
RUN git clone https://github.com/OpenSWR/openswr-mesa.git src-avx --depth 1 -b 11.0-openswr

WORKDIR /opt/tools/src/openswr-mesa/src-avx
RUN scons build=release texture_float=yes swr_arch=avx libgl-xlib

WORKDIR /opt/tools/mesa-swr-avx
RUN cp /opt/tools/src/openswr-mesa/src-avx/build/linux-x86_64/gallium/targets/libgl-xlib/libGL.so.1.5 . && \
    ln -s libGL.so.1 libGL.so && \
    ln -s libGL.so.1.5 libGL.so.1

--Ben