[vtkusers] Cross platform rendering tests

[Slaughter, Andrew E]

Thanks for the testing information, you mention that "We test nightly on
OSX, Window, and Linux with both Mesa and native drivers from Intel,
Nvidia, and AMD". I am interested in setting up VTK to use Mesa, are the
instructions for building VTK to use Mesa?

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 7:43 AM, Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com> wrote:

> To drive the testing take a look at testing with ctest
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> To do image comparisons look at vtkRegressionTestImage.h and vtkTesting.h
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>   int retVal = vtkRegressionTestImage( renWin );
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> The typical approach uses argc and argv to extract the location of a valid
> image file to use as a comparison. Those two headers have some example code
> in them. We test nightly on OSX, Window, and Linux with both Mesa and
> native drivers from Intel, Nvidia, and AMD.
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> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 9:28 AM, Slaughter, Andrew E <
> andrew.slaughter at inl.gov> wrote:
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>> I am working on a VTK based GUI and would like to test the rendered
>> results across platforms (Linux and MacOS). Based on various sources of
>> documentation, most of which seem to be quite old (
>> https://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/OpenGL
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.vtk.org_Wiki_VTK_OpenGL&d=DwMFaQ&c=54IZrppPQZKX9mLzcGdPfFD1hxrcB__aEkJFOKJFd00&r=h7heP8xwI1i_HikChvhFbEBurKirgfOCdwgBxB9lM8c&m=ypxkVNBM_RLHR49knStOGS6wjz0LwknTxj1AkqJE2kM&s=J3G3b6Vf-0xU11ia1dCy7LumE6BeiIzFD6sPThphqCQ&e=>),
>> this should be possible with Mesa and software rendering.
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>> Could someone please point me to an example and/or current documentation
>> for doing this sort of work.
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>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
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