[Paraview] Build ParaViewWeb on windows

[Sebastien Jourdain]

Try to add that path to the following environment variable:

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\win32
set PYTHONPATH=C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\win32

If that doesn't work, you will have to search on the net on how to make
Twisted works on Windows.

Good luck,

Seb

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:16 AM, Yu Yu <jtxqhao at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sebastien,
>
> Sorry, please ignore the previous error. I finally found the correct
> combination in cmake and successfully build ParaViewWeb without error.
>
> However, when I launch ParaViewWeb with the following command:
>
> pvpython.exe
> ..\lib\paraview-4.3\site-packages\paraview\web\pv_web_visualizer.py
> --content ..\share\www --port 8088 --data-dir \data
>
> The following error occur.
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "..\lib\paraview-4.3\site-packages\paraview\web\pv_web_visualizer.py", line
> 78, in <module>
>     from vtk.web import server
>   File
> "D:\ParaView-4.3.1-Windows-64bit\ParaView-4.3.1-Windows-64bit\lib\paraview-4.3\site-packages\
> vtk\web\server.py", line 27, in <module>
>     from twisted.internet.endpoints import serverFromString
>   File
> "D:\ParaView-4.3.1-Windows-64bit\ParaView-4.3.1-Windows-64bit\lib\paraview-4.3\site-packages\
> twisted\internet\endpoints.py", line 44, in <module>
>     from twisted.internet import stdio
>   File
> "D:\ParaView-4.3.1-Windows-64bit\ParaView-4.3.1-Windows-64bit\lib\paraview-4.3\site-packages\
> twisted\internet\stdio.py", line 28, in <module>
>     from twisted.internet import _win32stdio
>   File
> "D:\ParaView-4.3.1-Windows-64bit\ParaView-4.3.1-Windows-64bit\lib\paraview-4.3\site-packages\
> twisted\internet\_win32stdio.py", line 7, in <module>
>     import win32api
> ImportError: No module named win32api
>
> Can I know how to point it to win32api I installed ? The file for
> win32api.pyd is in
> C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\win32
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Yu Yu <jtxqhao at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info. I make the change (comment out that line) and
>> rebuild. This time i can see WebApplication, vtkWebApps, vtkWebCore... and
>> etc in the Solution Explorer in VS 2013. And when I build all solutions,
>> everything compile properly except 2 errors:
>>
>> Error    7064    error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>> "__declspec(dllimport) public: static class vtkAVIWriter * __cdecl
>> vtkAVIWriter::New(void)" (__imp_?New at vtkAVIWriter@@SAPEAV1 at XZ)
>> referenced in function "protected: bool __cdecl
>> vtkSMAnimationSceneImageWriter::CreateWriter(void)"
>> (?CreateWriter at vtkSMAnimationSceneImageWriter@@IEAA_NXZ)
>> D:\Files\ParaView431\build11\ParaViewCore\Animation\vtkSMAnimationSceneImageWriter.obj
>> vtkPVAnimation
>> Error    7065    error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
>> D:\Files\ParaView431\build11\bin\Release\vtkPVAnimation-pv4.3.dll
>> vtkPVAnimation
>>
>> Do I need vtkPVAnimation ? I only interested in ParaViewWeb, how can I
>> turn that off from cmake (if ParaViewWeb do not require vtkPVAnimation).
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Sebastien Jourdain <
>> sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Replace the following CMake lines
>>>
>>> # ParaViewWeb on Windows needs win32api which is not provided by default
>>> # For now the default behavior would be to disable it on Windows build
>>> if (WIN32)
>>>   set(PARAVIEW_ENABLE_WEB OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
>>> else()
>>>   cmake_dependent_option(PARAVIEW_ENABLE_WEB "Enable/Disable web
>>> support" ON
>>>     "PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON" OFF)
>>> endif()
>>>
>>> with the following =====
>>>
>>> # ParaViewWeb on Windows needs win32api which is not provided by default
>>> # For now the default behavior would be to disable it on Windows build
>>> if (WIN32)
>>>   # set(PARAVIEW_ENABLE_WEB OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
>>> else()
>>>   cmake_dependent_option(PARAVIEW_ENABLE_WEB "Enable/Disable web
>>> support" ON
>>>     "PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON" OFF)
>>> endif()
>>>
>>> Then you should be good to go.
>>>
>>> Seb
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:09 AM, Yu Yu <jtxqhao at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I want to build ParaViewWeb on windows (64-but), I have install
>>>> win32api for python in my machine. I am using cmake-gui, and every time I
>>>> click ParaView_Enable_Python" to ON, and ParaView_Enable_Web to ON, cmake
>>>> will turn ParaView_Enable_Web to off. Is there a way to make it on ?
>>>>
>>>> I found this in the cmake text:
>>>> # ParaViewWeb on Windows needs win32api which is not provided by default
>>>> # For now the default behavior would be to disable it on Windows build
>>>>
>>>> Can I know how to enable ParaViewWeb for windows build ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>>
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