[Paraview] Guide to installing paraview for offscreen rendering

[David E DeMarle]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Amit Goel <Amit.Goel at ucf.edu> wrote:

> 1. I used CCMAKE to build paraview. CCMAKE, which is graphical/ncurses
> based, and in advanced mode - has hundreds of options (spread over 14
> pages) that I dont remember myself which options I chose last time I built
> paraview myself. Hence instead of ccmake, is there another command based
> way to build Paraview ? Or can I run CCMAKE first time and save the config
> file so that I remember what option I chose while building last time ? If
> yes then which file is generated as a result of ccmake that I can copy and
> preserve and then use it again and again to rebuild with same parameters or
> change one or two paramteres (such as path to HDF5).
>

$BLDDIR/CMakeCache.txt

You can cut all almost everything out of that, put it into a build
directory, and ccmake or (just cmake if it is a consistent set) and it will
do the right thing.

You can also use command line arguments:
(c)cmake -DSOME_CMAKE_VARIABLE:TYPE=VALUE .

To do the same thing.
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