[Paraview] Error cross-compiling Catalyst on BG/Q

Thu Feb 12 18:32:52 EST 2015

OK, thanks, that gets me a bit farther.  I pointed it at a successful build of Catalyst.  But now when I run cmake.sh, I get this error (and more later)

-- Performing Test Support for 64 bit file systems
CMake Error: TRY_RUN() invoked in cross-compiling mode, please set the following cache variables appropriately:
   CMAKE_REQUIRE_LARGE_FILE_SUPPORT (advanced)
   CMAKE_REQUIRE_LARGE_FILE_SUPPORT__TRYRUN_OUTPUT (advanced)
…
CMake Error: TRY_RUN() invoked in cross-compiling mode, please set the following cache variables appropriately:
   VTK_TYPE_CHAR_IS_SIGNED (advanced)
For details see /collab/usr/global/tools/Kitware/Catalyst/bgqos_0/catalyst_backend_crossbuild/TryRunResults.cmake

What am I to make of these cryptic errors?
Thanks
— Rich

On Feb 12, 2015, at 2:57 PM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com<mailto:dave.demarle at kitware.com>> wrote:

ParaView/Catalyst/VTK build and run some helper executables during the build process of themselves. An example is vtkWrapPython, who's job during the compile process is to parse the C++ header files and spit out additional header and cxx files that make the originals callable from python. All of those c++ files are later compiled for the target environment.

In cross compilation the helper executables have to be compiled to run in the host environment.
The source code that the helpers produce has to be compiled to run in the compute environment.

So build paraview (or better yet just the CompileTools target to save time) once for the host.
Then in a different directory build paraview again, using the toolchain you are now using to tell it what compilers and libraries to use for the compute nodes, and in this build tell cmake where the host tools can be found.

See the ParaViewSuperbuild project's CMake/crosscompile/bgq_gnu directory for how I set this up on mira.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
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Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Cook, Rich <cook47 at llnl.gov<mailto:cook47 at llnl.gov>> wrote:
Hello,
I have made a CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE which contains the following:

rcook at rzuseqlac2 (catalyst_backend_crossbuild ): cat ../backend_toolchain.cmake
#=====================================
set(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME BlueGeneQ-dynamic)

set(TOOLCHAIN_LOCATION /bgsys/drivers/ppcfloor/gnu-linux/bin)
set(TOOLCHAIN_PREFIX powerpc64-bgq-linux-)

set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER       ${TOOLCHAIN_LOCATION}/${TOOLCHAIN_PREFIX}gcc)
set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER     ${TOOLCHAIN_LOCATION}/${TOOLCHAIN_PREFIX}g++)
set(CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER ${TOOLCHAIN_LOCATION}/${TOOLCHAIN_PREFIX}gfortran)
#=====================================

When I try to use it to compile catalyst, I get an error which arises from a file in the Catalyst distribution and which I don’t understand.  Can someone ’splain it?  Thanks!

rcook at rzuseqlac2 (catalyst_backend_crossbuild ): /collab/usr/global/tools/Kitware/Catalyst/bgqos_0/base/cmake.sh  -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/collab/usr/global/tools/Kitware/Catalyst/bgqos_0/backend_toolchain.cmake  /collab/usr/global/tools/Kitware/Catalyst/bgqos_0/base
Not searching for unused variables given on the command line.
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 4.4.7
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 4.4.7
-- Check for working C compiler: /bgsys/drivers/ppcfloor/gnu-linux/bin/powerpc64-bgq-linux-gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /bgsys/drivers/ppcfloor/gnu-linux/bin/powerpc64-bgq-linux-gcc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /bgsys/drivers/ppcfloor/gnu-linux/bin/powerpc64-bgq-linux-g++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /bgsys/drivers/ppcfloor/gnu-linux/bin/powerpc64-bgq-linux-g++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Found Git: /usr/bin/git (found version "1.7.1")
-- Determined Source Version : 4.3.1
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:94 (find_package):
  By not providing "FindParaViewCompileTools.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this
  project has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by
  "ParaViewCompileTools", but CMake did not find one.

  Could not find a package configuration file provided by
  "ParaViewCompileTools" with any of the following names:

    ParaViewCompileToolsConfig.cmake
    paraviewcompiletools-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "ParaViewCompileTools" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
  or set "ParaViewCompileTools_DIR" to a directory containing one of the
  above files.  If "ParaViewCompileTools" provides a separate development
  package or SDK, be sure it has been installed.

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/collab/usr/global/tools/Kitware/Catalyst/bgqos_0/catalyst_backend_crossbuild/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log”.

This is odd because if I do not use the toolchain file, Catalyst compiles fine
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I’m attaching the log referenced, I don’t see anything in it that tips me off.

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