It isn't required but is used to do some hardware support queries. Are you getting compile/configure errors complaining about not finding some part of DirectX?
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Xunlei Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks a lot, David and Utkarsh. I was obnoxious about Qt aspect totally. > By using this thread, can you comment on using DirectX with Paraview on > Windows? > > Best, > > x > > > > > > *From:* David Partyka [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, February 18, 2011 10:54 AM > *To:* Xunlei Wu > > *Cc:* Utkarsh Ayachit; [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] failed to launch paraview.exe > > > > You should using matching compilers for both ParaView and Qt especially if > one is built debug and the other release. Unfortunately ParaView does not > build Qt for you. > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Xunlei Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Utkarsh, > > It is the same setup with my MSVC2008 ParaView, where Qt is a prebuild > release with MSVC2008 from > http://code.google.com/p/qt-msvc-installer/downloads/list > Very good catch!!! Does that mean I should either rebuild Qt with MSVC2010 > or let ParaView build Qt along the way? > > > Best, > x > > -----Original Message----- > From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 10:25 AM > To: Xunlei Wu > Cc: David Partyka; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Paraview] failed to launch paraview.exe > > Xulei, > > Just to be sure you are using Qt that was built with the same compilter > right? > > Utkarsh > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Xunlei Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi David and Utkarsh, > > > > With your new patch on Python _DEBUG from git source, I was able to > > build on > > MSVC2010 without any PYTHON related hitches. I still have issues with > > VTK_WRAP_PYTHON_SIP as I reported earlier though. > > > > When I launched the newly built paraview.exe I got the exact same > > error in pqApplicationCore.cxx, line 725: > > > > > > > > > > > vtkSMApplication::GetApplication()->GetPluginManager()->LoadPluginConf > > igurationXML( > > > > config_file.toStdString().c_str()); > > > > > > > > > QString config_file has value > "C:/ParaViewGit_VS2010/bin/Debug/../.plugins". > > However, config_file.toStdString() has corrupted content. > > > > > > > > BTW, shall I care about DirectX_LIBRARY? It appears ParaView's > > vtkRendering only uses DirectX9. Does including DirectX help ParaView > > performance on Windows machine? > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > x > > > > > > > > > > > > From: David Partyka [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 1:36 PM > > To: Xunlei Wu > > Cc: Utkarsh Ayachit; [email protected] > > > > Subject: Re: [Paraview] failed to launch paraview.exe > > > > > > > > Just to confirm. The VS10 x64 build on our nightly dashboard launches > > without issue. > > > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Xunlei Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks, David. Please give me a day or two. I just flooded the VS10 > > build directory with my previous successful VS08 build in order to get > > some work done. I will build through VS10 tomorrow night. > > > > Best, > > > > x > > > > > > > > From: David Partyka [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 1:23 PM > > To: Utkarsh Ayachit > > Cc: Xunlei Wu; [email protected] > > > > Subject: Re: [Paraview] failed to launch paraview.exe > > > > > > > > We do test nightly with VS10 and one of our developers actively uses > > it as well so it "should" work. Have you tried running paraview with -dr > command? > > In the mean time I will try and run the vs10 build on the dashboard > machine. > > > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Honestly, I am not the best guy to comment about windows, I use linux > > for most of my development. Dave, any insights? > > > > What is the value of config_file variable in pqApplicationCore.cxx:725? > > > > Utkarsh > > > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Xunlei Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Utkarsh, > >> This is the only copy of ParaView I am building from git source. I > >> have no ther VTK installation. > >> BTW, do you see many issues with MSVC2010? I am frustrated with > >> ParaView building process and not sure whether it is compiler/IDE > >> related. Thanks a lot. > >> > >> Best, > >> x > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 1:13 PM > >> To: Xunlei Wu > >> Cc: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: [Paraview] failed to launch paraview.exe > >> > >> Are you sure there isn't some dll conflict issue? Do you have other > >> installations of ParaView? > >> > >> Utkarsh > >> > >> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Xunlei Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> I am trying to run paraview.exe after built it (Debug version) on a > >>> Windows7 64bit + MSVC2010 machine. However the application failed to > >>> run the following call stack: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> vtksys.dll!vtksys::SystemTools::FileExists(const char * > >>> filename=0xcccccccccccccccc) Line 928 + 0xd bytes C++ > >>> > >>>> vtksys.dll!vtksys::SystemTools::FileExists(const char * > >>>>filename=0xcccccccccccccccc, bool isFile=true) Line 950 + 0xa bytes > >>>>C++ > >>> > >>> > >>> vtkPVServerManager.dll!vtkSMPluginManager::LoadPluginConfigurationXM > > >>> L( const char * filename=0xcccccccccccccccc) Line 97 + 0x10 bytes > > >>> C++ > >>> > >>> pqCore.dll!pqApplicationCore::loadDistributedPlugins(const > >>> char > >>> * > >>> filename=0x0000000000000000) Line 726 + 0x5d bytes C++ > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> The related lines of code might be: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> pqApplicationCore.cxx:line 725 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> vtkSMApplication::GetApplication()->GetPluginManager()->LoadPluginCo > >>> nf > >>> igurationXML( > >>> > >>> config_file.toStdString().c_str()); > >>> > >>> } > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Where config_file is "C:/ParaViewGit/bin/Debug/../.plugins". Such > >>> file is attached. After the process runs into vtkSMPluginManager > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> void vtkSMPluginManager::LoadPluginConfigurationXML(const char* > >>> filename) > >>> > >>> { > >>> > >>> bool debug_plugin = vtksys::SystemTools::GetEnv("PV_PLUGIN_DEBUG") > >>> != NULL; > >>> > >>> vtkPVPluginLoaderDebugMacro("Loading plugin configuration xml: " > >>> << filename); > >>> > >>> if (!vtksys::SystemTools::FileExists(filename, true)) > >>> > >>> { > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Where filename becomes "0xcccccccccccccccc <Bad Ptr>". Any idea? > >>> Thanks a lot. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Best, > >>> > >>> x > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Powered by www.kitware.com > >>> > >>> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > >>> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > >>> > >>> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > >>> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > >>> > >>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > >>> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > > > > > > > >
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