[vtkusers] VTK on "Catamount"

[Randall Hand]

I've long suspected the same thing, but a few weeks ago while talking to
Andy he mentioned that CMake/VTK had support for cross-compiling which
should allow it.  He wasn't 100% either, but I figured someone here would be
:)



On 7/3/06, John Biddiscombe <biddisco at cscs.ch> wrote:
>
> Randall
>
> From what I understand, catamount doesn't allow any forking, threads or
> ports, so you'd have to build vtk with a lot of bits "commented out" or
> disabled. I am told that an upgrade (of our XT3) at some point in the
> future might relax these restrictions. I'm not an expert at these OS
> specific issues, but I know someone who is....(so I can ask).
>
> JB
>
>
> > Has anyone had any luck/experience compiling VTK for use on
> > "Catamount"?  It's the backend Operation System on our Cray XT3 here and
> > I've not had any luck so far (Catamount programs won't run on the login
> > nodes, which run a variant of Suse, so all the things that compile & run
> > for tests fail).
> >
> > I'm hoping to compile it with Mangled Mesa & all the Xdmf stuff, but
> > just getting VTK running would be a good start.
> >
> > (Crossing my fingers, hoping those DOE "Red Storm" gurus will chime in)
> >
> > --
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> > Randall Hand
> > Visualization Scientist
> > ERDC MSRC-ITL
> >
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Randall Hand
Visualization Scientist
ERDC MSRC-ITL
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