[Paraview] Compiling Paraview with osMesa using Superbuild

[Chuck Atkins]

Hi Christopher,

While I haven't tested with OpenSuSE, I have been testing extensively with
SLES12.2 and EL7.   I usually recommend to build a CMake cache file to
encode the appropriate options used that you can save off as your build's
configuration file.  You can see many current examples in the cmake/sites
directory.  Specifically, the EL7-OSMesa.cmake configuration will likely be
a good place to start for you.  To use it:

# Clone the repo and it's submodules
# The current superbuild master/ branch is pointing to the ParaView 5.2.0
release
git clone https;//gitlab./kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild.git
source
cd source
git submodule init
git submodule update

# Setup the build location
cd ..
mkdir build
cd build

# Configure
cmake -C /path/to/sb-source/cmake/sites/EL7-OSMesa.cmake /path/to/sb-source

# Build
make

# Install
make install

In your case specifically, you'll want to add the following to the config
file:

set(ENABLE_paraviewsdk ON CACHE "")

This will make sure the necessary headers and CMake files get packaged for
using Catalyst.  This will build with OSMesa enabling both the llvmpipe and
OpenSWR drivers.  Also, instead of a "make install", you can run "ctest -R
cpack-paraviewsdk-TGZ" which will generate a tarball that you can "install"
by extracting wherever you want it to end up.

We're still working on getting good HowTo docs for the Superbuild, which
has been challenging because many different users tend to use it in many
different ways.  I hope this helps give you a good place to start though.



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Chuck Atkins
Staff R&D Engineer, Scientific Computing
Kitware, Inc.


On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Christopher Neal <chrisneal at snumerics.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just saw that the paraview superbuild has be greatly refactored. I
> wanted to try and give another shot to something that I have been
> trying to do for a while now. My goal is to compile a version of
> paraview with osmesa enabled such that an HPC code that is
> instrumented with Catalyst calls can run on a computer without having
> to open up a window to render images.
>
> Has anyone had luck building the superbuild with osmesa on OpenSuse
> 13.2? I'm trying to put together an appropriate configuration script
> that conforms to the new superbuild's style.
>
> Thank you,
>
> --
> Christopher Neal
> Research Engineer
> Streamline Numerics, Inc.
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