[Paraview] Building ParaView v5.1.2 on Linux from source with support for GPU and SWR.

Wed Sep 28 06:50:19 EDT 2016

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 4:06 AM, Albina, Frank <
frank.albina at sauber-motorsport.com> wrote:

> David,
>
>
>
> I could manage to get Paraview 5.1.2 compiled using the ParaView
> superbuild on my Linux desktop running OpenSuSE 12.3.
>
>
>
> In this regard, I would like to point out a few things I have found while
> performing the build process on the aforementioned Linux distribution. Note
> that my incentive is to help improve the ParaView software suite as well as
> helping others to be able to build and use the software.
>
>
Thanks, we appreciate it!

>
> 1.     I found it this page quite useful for having at least a starting
> point for building ParaView v5.1.2 on Linux: https://cmake.org/Wiki/
> ParaView/Binaries
>
> 2.     You definitely need cmake at least *cmake v3.5* (and not v3.3) to
> compile ParaView from SuperBuild.
>

 Ah yes, sorry for the misinformation on my part.

> 3.     You need a *GNU compiler v4.8.0 or above* to build. My Linux
> distribution comes with gcc v4.7.2. Fortunately, I had gcc v4.9.2 installed
> with which I could perform a successful build.
>
> 4.     Dependencies such libsz, libxml, libbzip2 are built and stored in
> the <build>/install/lib64 directory on my platform. This creates linking
> issues which I could partly resolve by pushing the missing libraries into
> the <build>/install/lib directory. This is not ideal but could be solved by
> forcing the lib directory to <build>/install/lib using the --libdir option.
>
> 5.     The vistrails plugin cannot be built. After 3 attempts, the git
> clone from https://kwgitlab.kitware.com/paraview/vistrails.git fails.
> Either the link is wrong or the server is unreachable.
>
> 6.     The mesa libraries are pre-compiled and downloaded to
> <buils>/mesa-downloads. They are unpacked and moved into the ParaView
> installation directory when performing “make install”. These libraries are
> dating from May 3rd, hence prior to the release of Mesa 12.0 which embeds
> OpenSWR as a build option. Is there a way to build new libGL.so and
> libOSMesa.so libraries based on Mesa3D v12.0 and replace the currently
> pre-compiled binaries? If so,what are the typical configuration options
> used in this case?
>
>
I believe the plan is to update to 12 before 5.2. Is that right @chuck and
@ben?

> Any feedback/comments are most welcome.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Frank.
>
>
>
> *From:* Albina, Frank
> *Sent:* Montag, 26. September 2016 15:51
> *To:* 'David E DeMarle'
> *Cc:* paraview at paraview.org; Del Citto, Francesco
> *Subject:* RE: [Paraview] Building ParaView v5.1.2 on Linux from source
> with support for GPU and SWR.
>
>
>
> Perfect!
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Frank.
>
>
>
> *From:* David E DeMarle [mailto:dave.demarle at kitware.com
> <dave.demarle at kitware.com>]
> *Sent:* Montag, 26. September 2016 15:49
>
> *To:* Albina, Frank
> *Cc:* paraview at paraview.org; Del Citto, Francesco
> *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] Building ParaView v5.1.2 on Linux from source
> with support for GPU and SWR.
>
>
>
> 3.3
>
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
> 21 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-881-4909
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Albina, Frank <frank.albina at sauber-
> motorsport.com> wrote:
>
> Hi David!
>
>
>
> Thanks for the swift feedback. As I have been compiling ParaView from
> source for at least the last 6 years, it never came to my mind trying out
> the super-build. £
>
>
>
> I’ll try it out and report if I find myself stuck.
>
>
>
> By the way, which CMake version do you recommend for building ParaView
> v5.1.2 from the git repository?
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Frank.
>
>
>
> *From:* David E DeMarle [mailto:dave.demarle at kitware.com]
> *Sent:* Montag, 26. September 2016 15:37
> *To:* Albina, Frank
> *Cc:* paraview at paraview.org; Del Citto, Francesco
> *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] Building ParaView v5.1.2 on Linux from source
> with support for GPU and SWR.
>
>
>
> I recommend the ParaView superbuild. All of the incantations that we use
> to setup and build paraview, mesa and the rest of our dependencies are
> written down and maintained there.
>
> https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild
>
> We've used it for our Desktop binaries for years, and more and more often
> we use it for our HPC installs as well.
>
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
> 21 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-881-4909
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 5:17 AM, Albina, Frank <frank.albina at sauber-
> motorsport.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> after having downloaded last week the latest ParaView release (v5.1.2) for
> Linux, I have found out that the binary version has the following folder
> structure in lib/paraview-5.1:
>
> *mesa-llvm*
>
> |-- *libGL.so* -> libGL.so.1
>
> |-- *libGL.so.1 *-> libGL.so.1.5
>
> |-- libGL.so.1.5
>
> |-- *libOSMesa.so* -> libOSMesa.so.8
>
> |-- *libOSMesa.so.8* -> libOSMesa.so.8.0.0
>
> `-- libOSMesa.so.8.0.0
>
> *mesa-swr-avx*
>
> |-- *libGL.so* -> libGL.so.1
>
> |-- *libGL.so.1* -> libGL.so.1.5
>
> |-- libGL.so.1.5
>
> |-- *libOSMesa.so* -> libOSMesa.so.8
>
> |-- *libOSMesa.so.8* -> libOSMesa.so.8.0.0
>
> `-- libOSMesa.so.8.0.0
>
> *mesa-swr-avx2*
>
> |-- *libGL.so* -> libGL.so.1
>
> |-- *libGL.so.1 *-> libGL.so.1.5
>
> |-- libGL.so.1.5
>
> |-- *libOSMesa.so* -> libOSMesa.so.8
>
> |-- *libOSMesa.so.8* -> libOSMesa.so.8.0.0
>
> `-- libOSMesa.so.8.0.0
>
> Which is an elegant way of providing a binary package for GPU and non-GPU
> architectures at the same time.
>
> Hence my question: How do I build ParaView v5.1.2 from source to have the
> same folder structure so that I have one version for GPU and software
> rendering? I understand that swr-avx(2) should be also available from Mesa
> v12.x. Is there anything I’d need to consider / take care of before
> building the different OSMesa libraries with LLVM / OpenSWR?
>
> *Frank Albina*
>
>
>
>
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