[Paraview] Compiling Paraview with osMesa using Superbuild

Mon Dec 19 21:04:26 EST 2016

Setting ENABLE_foo to ON turn on a sub-project, defaulting to building our
own version.  Setting USE_SYSTEM_foo to ON will override that default and
use a system version instead.  In your case, you'll want to also set
USE_SYSTEM_hdf5 to ON.  Given your particular configuration and which
packages you have installed, set ENABLE_foo and USE_SYSTEM_foo
accordingly.  Using the cache file is functionally equivalent to:

cmake -DENABLE_foo=ON -DUSE_SYSTEM_foo=ON [more cmake options]...

The cache file works by pre-loading the settings.  You can also pass
additional options on the command line as cmake -D flags to override or
supplement the cache script settings.  When trying to work out the settings
you want to use, it may be easiest to iterate with -D flags on the command
line until you get it just how you want it and then translate those into a
site-specific cache script that you can keep around.

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

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Christopher Neal <chrisneal at snumerics.com>
wrote:

> Thank you for the suggestions Chuck,
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> I tried the configuration: EL7-OSMesa.cmake  with the edit that you
> suggested.
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> It first failed when I ran: cmake -C ../paraview-superbuild/cmake/sites/EL7-OSMesa.cmake
>  ../paraview-superbuild/
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> The error was:
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> *CMake Error at superbuild/cmake/SuperbuildRevisionMacros.cmake:339
> (message):  The 5.2.0-RC4 source selection for paraview does not exist.Call
> Stack (most recent call first):  versions.cmake:60
> (superbuild_set_selectable_source)  superbuild/CMakeLists.txt:96
> (include)-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!*
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> I took at a look at the EL7-OSMesa.cmake file and it looks like there is a
> hardcoded paraview version in there. The option:
> set(paraview_SOURCE_SELECTION 5.2.0-RC4 CACHE BOOL "") . I changed it from
> 5.2.0-RC4 to 5.2.0 and the configuration continued on until it hit another
> failure. I changed set(ENABLE_paraviewsdk ON CACHE "")  to
>  set(ENABLE_paraviewsdk ON CACHE BOOL "") [note the BOOL], and that seemed
> to fix the issue.
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> Upon doing 'make' the compilation failed in the HDF5 stage with the
> following error.
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> *CMakeFiles/Makefile2:127: recipe for target 'src/CMakeFiles/hdf5.dir/all'
> failedgmake[4]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/hdf5.dir/all] Error 2Makefile:149:
> recipe for target 'all' failedgmake[3]: *** [all] Error 2CMake Error at
> /home/neal/software/ParaView_osMesa_Superbuild/build/superbuild/sb-hdf5-build.cmake:43
> (message):  Failed with exit code
> 2superbuild/CMakeFiles/hdf5.dir/build.make:115: recipe for target
> 'superbuild/hdf5/stamp/hdf5-build' failedmake[2]: ***
> [superbuild/hdf5/stamp/hdf5-build] Error 1CMakeFiles/Makefile2:2399: recipe
> for target 'superbuild/CMakeFiles/hdf5.dir/all' failedmake[1]: ***
> [superbuild/CMakeFiles/hdf5.dir/all] Error 2Makefile:127: recipe for target
> 'all' failedmake: *** [all] Error 2*
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> I'm unsure about how to resolve the failure. I am using cmake-3.6. There
> is a version of hdf5 already installed on the system( which h5dump gives:
> /usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/bin/h5dump ).
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> Have you ever had issues with the hdf5 compilation of the superbuild?
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> Thank you,
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> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Chuck Atkins <chuck.atkins at kitware.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi Christopher,
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>> 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:
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>> # 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
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>> # Setup the build location
>> cd ..
>> mkdir build
>> cd build
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>> # Configure
>> cmake -C /path/to/sb-source/cmake/sites/EL7-OSMesa.cmake
>> /path/to/sb-source
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>> # Build
>> make
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>> # Install
>> make install
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>> In your case specifically, you'll want to add the following to the config
>> file:
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>> set(ENABLE_paraviewsdk ON CACHE "")
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
>>
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>> 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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> --
> Christopher Neal
> Research Engineer
> Streamline Numerics, Inc.
>
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