<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi All,</div><div><br></div><div>I am interested in using the pv-meshless plugin for ParaView to post process SPH data. From what I've read it seems the only way to install a plug-in that is not loaded with ParaView is by building the entire application from the source code. I am under this impression b/c one of the parameters that is needed to be passed to CMake when building pv-meshless is the directory folder "paraview/build" where it looks for other CMakeLists for the paraview application. The problem is if you install paraview from the binaries there is no paraview/build directory so CMake complains. Basically I am not sure how to properly install an unsupported plug-in for ParaView. My background with software/programming is mostly limited to Java & Eclipse IDE. I'd like to think it would have been as simple as downloading a dll file for the plugin and pointing ParaView to find the correct dll file. But I am guessing ParaView doesn't magically support plug-ins besides default ones. I would have thought pv-meshless would have been a supported plug-in in the recent binary distribution but I guess it is not. :(</div>
<div><br></div><div>Yesterday I tried building the ParaViewSuperbuild from source with the following CMake Enable options (I should point out I'm not really sure what options to choose, never used CMake before..But I am guessing the following three components are critical to have a minimally running paraview gui):</div>
<div><br></div><div>ENABLE_paraview</div><div>ENABLE_python</div><div>ENABLE_qt</div><div><b><br></b></div><div>I opened the cmake gui from the VS command prompt to auto set correct path variables for various things. I also opened visual studio as the administrator. It took maybe 2-3 hrs + to finish compiling. These are the problems I ran into:</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>(1) When I open the executable for paraview it failed to find the python27.lib even though I saw that it was built under:</div><div><br></div><div>\Build\python\src\python\PCbuild<br></div>
<div><br></div><div>I added the path to my PATH environment variable and ParaView started up fine.</div><div><br></div><div>(2) When I try to open the python shell PV crashes. This is tells me some other executables path was not set correctly. This is probably an indication of a bigger problem so I am not sure if I compiled PV correctly. Any clue why the path variables weren't set correctly? </div>
<div><br></div><div>(3) it also failed to build ParaView under the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.046875px">CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX specified directory..</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.046875px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="line-height:19.046875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif">Also if I anyone can direct me to the list where the ENABLE_Components are described as they relate to ParaView functionality I'd really appreciate it. Also is it quicker to build from source on a UNIX based machine? It mentions building QT is time consuming on windows is it substantially faster on other OS's?</span><br>
</div><div><font color="#000000" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19.046875px"><br></span></font></div><div><b>Info:</b></div><div>cmake-2.8.8-win32-x86 (just found out it is recommended to use 2.8.9+ )</div><div>
Visual Studio 2008, 9.0 Professional Edition</div>OS: Windows 7 64 bit<div>Accessing ParaView-Superbuild and appropriate downloads via git <br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for any help/tips</div><div><br></div>
<div>Yaro</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>