[Paraview] Windows plugin compatibility with Paraview

[Chris Marsh]

Hi Ben,
Thanks for the detailed reply. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks very much.

Cheers
Chris


On 25 January 2017 at 12:39, Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:08:00 -0600, Chris Marsh wrote:
> > I would like to build and make available a pre-compiled windows binary
> for
> > a filter I have developed. I would like to avoid the (windows) user
> having
> > to compile the filter as well as paraview. Therefore I am wondering what
> > compiler is used to produce the official Paraview builds so-as to avoid
> ABI
> > issues with my pre-compiled .dll. Is there anything else I need to be
> aware
> > of?
>
> We use Visual Studio 2013 Community to build the binaries from the
> superbuild:
>
>     https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild
>
> If you want to be compatible with the paraview.org downloads, there are
> two packages built, one with MPI and one without. You can see the
> command lines used to build the superbuild here:
>
>     https://open.cdash.org/viewConfigure.php?buildid=4740356 (no MPI)
>     https://open.cdash.org/viewConfigure.php?buildid=4740247 (with MPI)
>
> Only MSMPI is supported (but cannot be redistributed, so we rely on it
> being available on the target machine already).
>
> If you want to build your own package with the plugin pre-packaged, you
> can use the documentation here:
>
>     https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild/#
> external-plugins
>
> to support building your plugin and then extract it from the install/
> tree and distribute it to your users. We currently do not ship an SDK
> for Windows, so it is easiest to build 5.2.0 locally and then
> redistribute your plugin (though building your own package is also
> easy). Note that your plugin is built as part of ParaView in this
> configuration, so there is no need to do a `find_package(ParaView)`. You
> can see how the PointSpritePlugin deals with this here:
>
>     https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/
> 4897676d1cdc764f933a9fac22149dadf6dd5cb2/Plugins/
> PointSprite/CMakeLists.txt#L14
>
> --Ben
>
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