[Paraview] compiling ParaView on Windows

[Randall Hand]

Last I heard, ParaView was very specific about requiring QT 4.3.5 .. Is this
no longer the case?

fyi, I need to compile PV3.2.3, not the latest CVS.
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Randall Hand
Visualization Scientist
ERDC MSRC-ITL


On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Mike Jackson
<mike.jackson at bluequartz.net>wrote:

> 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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> > Visualization Scientist
> > ERDC MSRC-ITL
> >
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