[Paraview] [Non-DoD Source] Re: 5.0.1/Exodus Reader

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Ah okay. Give me a few days to sort it out. The end goal is indeed to
have superbuild build the right versions of Mesa. Do you only  care
about OSMesa or also Mesa with X support?

Utkarsh




On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Angelini, Richard C (Rick) CIV USARMY
RDECOM ARL (US) <richard.c.angelini.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
> Our current issues seem to be related to our osmesa build for the HPC_side
> servers.       The Superbuild is building 7.11.2 - you are suggesting that
> we need to *manually* build a different version of Mesa and somehow link
> in that new version of Mesa in to the Superbuild?     We rely exclusively
> on the Superbuild for compiling ParaView across 20 different HPC systems -
> so stepping outside of the super build paradigm isn’t necessarily obvious
> to me!    8-)
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> From: Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
> Date: Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 8:37 AM
> To: Rick Angelini <Richard.C.Angelini.CIV at mail.mil>
> Cc: Chuck Atkins <chuck.atkins at kitware.com>, ParaView
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>> So there is much more to be done than adding
>> -DPARAVIEW_RENDERING_BACKEND:STRING=OpenGL2
>> -DVTK_RENDERING_BACKEND:STRING="OpenGL2"
>> to the cmake flags?
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> As far as ParaView is concerned, no there's not much more to it.
> However if your OpenGL implementation doesn't support OpenGL 3.2
> (released in 2009), then alas there's more work to get ParaView
> working which could include building a newer version of Mesa. Not sure
> if you have seen this blog [1], but that talks about how I got Mesa to
> build with appropriate OpenGL renderer enabled. Things have gotten a
> little better since then and the Docker script encapsulates that. The
> moral of the story is get latest Mesa version and build it with
> LLVM/Gallum support.
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> Utkarsh
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> [1]
> Caution-https://blog.kitware.com/messing-with-mesa-for-paraview-5-0vtk-7-0/
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