[Paraview] Build ParaViewWeb on windows

Fri May 22 12:30:00 EDT 2015

Glad it works and thanks for sharing your success on having ParaViewWeb on
Windows.

Seb

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Yu Yu <jtxqhao at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Sebastien for the suggestion ! Yes, it works now. The final setting
> that make it works is this:
>
> set PYTHONPATH=C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\win32;
> C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib;
>
> Thanks for your help
>
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Sebastien Jourdain <
> sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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