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0014016ParaView(No Category)public2013-04-16 18:402016-08-12 09:59
ReporterMatthew Woehlke 
Assigned ToKitware Robot 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
StatusclosedResolutionmoved 
PlatformOSOS Version
Product Version 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0014016: paraview does not build against external VTK
DescriptionThe fix for issue 0013894 is either inadequate or has bitrotted.

I have run into (at least) the following problems trying to build paraview against external VTK:

- CMake/ParaViewModuleTop.cmake attempts to build non-existing VTK modules. As these have no ${_module}_SOURCE_DIR, this results in CMake errors about trying to add the top-level source directory multiple times. I was able to fix this by skipping modules for which ${_module}_SOURCE_DIR is empty, although this isn't very elegant.

- Plugins can't find VTK because the build-dir ParaviewConfig.cmake refers to Paraview_BINARY_DIR/VTK/VTKConfig.cmake which of course does not exist. This can be fixed by setting the name of the VTKConfig.cmake outside of configuring ParaViewConfig.cmake.in, to a different value depending on whether VTK is external.
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(0030607)
Matthew Woehlke (reporter)
2013-04-24 19:59

 Additional problems I have found:

- Python wrapping does not work (patch below).

- Finding paraview does not work because there is no VTK module pqApplicationComponents.

I'm not sure how to handle the second. Not shoving paraview modules in VTK_FIND_COMPONENTS is a start, but then something needs to actually check for requested paraview modules. This could be done with an additional call to vtk_module_config for the paraview models, except that a: I am not sure that this function can be used for modules outside of VTK proper, and b: something needs to set the list of paraview modules that are available.

Patch for first issue:
diff --git a/Wrapping/Python/CMakeLists.txt b/Wrapping/Python/CMakeLists.txt
index 5c3ad60..7bbd3da 100644
--- a/Wrapping/Python/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Wrapping/Python/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -88,6 +88,26 @@ ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(
 ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(paraview_pyc ALL
   DEPENDS "${PV_PYTHON_MODULE_BINARY_DIR}/pv_compile_complete")
 
+if (PARAVIEW_USING_EXTERNAL_VTK)
+ include(vtkPythonWrapping)
+
+ get_property(VTK_PYTHON_MODULES GLOBAL PROPERTY VTK_PYTHON_WRAPPED)
+
+ # Get the include directories for the module and all its dependencies.
+ macro(vtk_include_recurse module)
+ _vtk_module_config_recurse("${module}_PYTHON" ${module})
+ include_directories(${${module}_PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+ endmacro()
+
+ # Loop through all modules that should be wrapped, and wrap them.
+ foreach(module ${VTK_PYTHON_MODULES})
+ vtk_module_load(${module})
+ vtk_module_headers_load(${module})
+ vtk_include_recurse(${module})
+ vtk_add_python_wrapping(${module})
+ endforeach()
+endif ()
+
 # Install the paraview module files.
 INSTALL(DIRECTORY ${PV_PYTHON_MODULE_BINARY_DIR}
     DESTINATION ${VTK_INSTALL_LIBRARY_DIR}/site-packages
(0038381)
Kitware Robot (administrator)
2016-08-12 09:59

 Resolving issue as `moved`.

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 Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2013-04-16 18:40 Matthew Woehlke New Issue
2013-04-24 19:59 Matthew Woehlke Note Added: 0030607
2016-08-12 09:59 Kitware Robot Note Added: 0038381
2016-08-12 09:59 Kitware Robot Status backlog => closed
2016-08-12 09:59 Kitware Robot Resolution open => moved
2016-08-12 09:59 Kitware Robot Assigned To => Kitware Robot

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