On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Bill Sherman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey David, > > Okay, so after getting sidetracked a few days, I'm back to working on > ParaView on our Cray. > > First question: is there a preferred build environment? > > Yes GNU is the preferred environment. We don't have pgi, cray, or intel compilers submitting to the VTK and ParaView dashboards, so the GNU toolchain is your best bet (we have an AIX build, so xlc on bluegene's is usually pretty easy). ParaView _can_ be compiled with the other compilers, and between Pat Marion and I'm sure we've done them all at some point, but it is usually more of a headache and takes longer to get a working ParaView build up because compilation problems creep in and go undetected for long periods of time. Note, it doesn't matter what compiler you use to build CMake. If the system CMake is too old, I just compile it myself using gcc on the login node and put that in my path before the system one. Note also that you can force CMake to choose a particular compiler by setting your CC and CXX environment variables before your first configure. From that time on, that particular build will always use the same one.
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