[vtkusers] VTK on "Catamount"

[Wes Turner]

Bill Hoffman is on a beach on the Southern East coast USA right now.  
Give him a few days. :-)

- Wes Turner

Randall Hand wrote:
> Kewl, I was hoping you'ld chime in :)  For now, I'll take this as a 
> semi-official notice that VTK/Paraview on XT3 is a "no-go" until the 
> OS Upgrade.
>
> I'm surprised to hear you say that about CMake Tho.  I know that the 
> one time I tried to cross-compile with CMake I didn't get very far and 
> found other more-entertaining ways to pass the hours.  Andy seemed to 
> think it was doable, and definately supported.  Any of you Kitware 
> guys care to chime in?  /poke Bill Hoffman
>
> As for people who want to, us HPC guys definately.. With the 
> differences between login nodes & operating nodes becoming more 
> prevalent, it's becoming more of a pain in my ass by the day.  I also 
> imagine the Apple "Universal Binary" folks would like to see it.
>
> On 7/6/06, *Wylie, Brian* <bnwylie at sandia.gov 
> <mailto:bnwylie at sandia.gov>> wrote:
>
>     Randall,
>      
>     We have tried this... unsuccessfully.... :(
>      
>     The issue is that CMake doesn't really support of the notion of
>     'cross compililation'.  It's my opinion that CMake should support
>     cross compililation but I don't believe there are that many end
>     users for this type of functionality so it's probably not on the
>     top of their to do list.
>      
>     But now we have at least two votes for it. :)
>      
>     Anyone else out there want to do cross compilation with CMake?
>      
>
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>         <mailto:vtkusers-bounces+bnwylie=sandia.gov at vtk.org>] *On
>         Behalf Of *Randall Hand
>         *Sent:* Friday, June 30, 2006 9:15 PM
>         *To:* VTK Users
>         *Subject:* [vtkusers] VTK on "Catamount"
>
>     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)
>
>     -- 
>     ----------------------------------------
>     Randall Hand
>     Visualization Scientist
>     ERDC MSRC-ITL
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> Randall Hand
> Visualization Scientist
> ERDC MSRC-ITL
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