[Paraview] Is USE_EXTERNAL_VTK supported with ParaView 5.1.2?

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

> For this purpose I configure ParaView with the
> -DUSE_EXTERNAL_VTK=ON option, but I get a bunch of errors.
> Before I attach lengthy error logs, I'd like to ask whether this can work at
> all?

No, it's not supported and there are no indications that it will any
time soon unless someone from the community takes it up.

> The background of my request is that I need to develop a ParaView plugin
> which links a software tool that depends on VTK by itself. I couldn't find a
> possibility to link this tool against the VTK which is included in ParaView.

You should be able to set your VTK_DIR to ParaViewBuildDir/VTK.