[Paraview] Not a valid QT plugin on windows

[Berk Geveci]

> I'll keep you posted on the progress  ~ Just one question though, plugins
> working in ParaView 3.2 should work in 3.4 right ?

If they are recompiled, yes.

-berk

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Jacques Papper <jpapper at ara.co.uk> wrote:
> I haven't had the time to get this to work... I went through the dependency
> walker and it seems that many dependencies are not resolved... Wht I will do
> next is compare this to my linux build.
> I'll keep you posted on the progress  ~ Just one question though, plugins
> working in ParaView 3.2 should work in 3.4 right ?
> JAcques
>
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> On Behalf Of Berk Geveci
> Sent: 18 December 2008 14:16
> To: Jacques Papper
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Not a valid QT plugin on windows
>
> Hi Jacques,
>
> I can't be of much help but I wanted to mention that, once you get this
> working, we should create a wiki describing issues with plugins on various
> platforms, specially Windows.
>
> -berk
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Jacques Papper <jacques.papper at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Ok,
>>
>> I removed the EXPORTS macro in my header, and it produces the same as
>> setting the flag vtkIO_EXPORTS. The library is still not loaded
>> though. So now I'm looking at the dependencies and the Initialize
> function.
>>
>> Kenneth, how do I go about "making sure that the server manager
>> initialization function is properly exported" ? I'm not sure I really
>> understand what you mean ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jacques
>>
>>
>> 2008/12/16 David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
>>>
>>> That sounds similar to a bug that Pat Marion fixed for the Streaming
>>> ParaView plugin under windows. His change that fixed it was this:
>>>
>>> Index: Client/pqGlobalStreamingViewOptions.h
>>> ===================================================================
>>> RCS file:
>>> /cvsroot/ParaView3/ParaView3/Plugins/Streaming/Client/pqGlobalStreami
>>> ngViewOptions.h,v
>>> retrieving revision 1.1
>>> retrieving revision 1.2
>>> diff -r1.1 -r1.2
>>> 36d35
>>> < #include "pqComponentsExport.h"
>>> 40c39
>>> < class PQCOMPONENTS_EXPORT pqGlobalStreamingViewOptions : public
>>> pqOptionsContainer
>>> ---
>>> > class pqGlobalStreamingViewOptions : public pqOptionsContainer
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Jacques Papper <jpapper at ara.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> > I have two plugins for Paraview that used to work fine with
>>> > ParaView 3.2 under linux (I used to build them at the same time as
>>> > ParaView.) Now I am using Visual Studio and have compiled the
>>> > plugins outside of paraview. I am able to generate dll for both the
>>> > server and client plugins.
>>> > (I had to switch the vtkIO_EXPORTS flag on to build the dlls) When
>>> > I launch paraview, only the client side is loaded and when I try to
>>> > load the server side it fails with the message : " * is not a valid
>>> > Qt plugin" ...
>>> > I have found some threads dealing with this but nothing that I can try.
>>> > I have built ParaView and my plugins against the same version of Qt
>>> > (4.4.3)
>>> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>> >
>>> > Jacques
>>> >
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