[Paraview] compiling ParaView on Windows

[Mike Jackson]

Actually, the latest Qt 4.4.x supports the free versions of Visual
Studio so you can compile the OpenSource version of Qt with Visual
Studio Express.
The ParaView devs can answer the rest of the questions with more
authority but if you were to try to compile against the downloaded
version of ParaView you would have to match their version of visual
studio and Qt which is entirely possible.
I have found that compiling Qt 4.4.2 on windows is now straight
forward and the build of ParaView after that is just as straight
forward.. unless you have an older machine then it just takes a
llloooooonnnggg time to compile everything.
On my 2.6Ghz Core 2 Duo with 2GB ram I think Qt 4 is taking a few
hours to compile.
Mike Jackson
BlueQuartz Software

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Randall Hand <randall.hand at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm on a project to add a new Reader to ParaView, and have successfully gotten it working as a Plugin on linux.  Now I need to do this for Windows.
>
> A few questions:
> 1) Can I compile my plugin as a DLL, that can be loaded with the downloaded windows binary?
> 2) Is that version compiled with MinGW or Visual Studio?
> 3) If it's Visual Studio, can it use the QT compiled with MinGW? I see that to get QT compiled with Visual Studio, I have to have the Commercial Version, not the Open Source version.
>
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