Hi All, I am interested in using the pv-meshless plugin for ParaView to post process SPH data. From what I've read it seems the only way to install a plug-in that is not loaded with ParaView is by building the entire application from the source code. I am under this impression b/c one of the parameters that is needed to be passed to CMake when building pv-meshless is the directory folder "paraview/build" where it looks for other CMakeLists for the paraview application. The problem is if you install paraview from the binaries there is no paraview/build directory so CMake complains. Basically I am not sure how to properly install an unsupported plug-in for ParaView. My background with software/programming is mostly limited to Java & Eclipse IDE. I'd like to think it would have been as simple as downloading a dll file for the plugin and pointing ParaView to find the correct dll file. But I am guessing ParaView doesn't magically support plug-ins besides default ones. I would have thought pv-meshless would have been a supported plug-in in the recent binary distribution but I guess it is not. :(
Yesterday I tried building the ParaViewSuperbuild from source with the following CMake Enable options (I should point out I'm not really sure what options to choose, never used CMake before..But I am guessing the following three components are critical to have a minimally running paraview gui): ENABLE_paraview ENABLE_python ENABLE_qt I opened the cmake gui from the VS command prompt to auto set correct path variables for various things. I also opened visual studio as the administrator. It took maybe 2-3 hrs + to finish compiling. These are the problems I ran into: (1) When I open the executable for paraview it failed to find the python27.lib even though I saw that it was built under: \Build\python\src\python\PCbuild I added the path to my PATH environment variable and ParaView started up fine. (2) When I try to open the python shell PV crashes. This is tells me some other executables path was not set correctly. This is probably an indication of a bigger problem so I am not sure if I compiled PV correctly. Any clue why the path variables weren't set correctly? (3) it also failed to build ParaView under the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX specified directory.. Also if I anyone can direct me to the list where the ENABLE_Components are described as they relate to ParaView functionality I'd really appreciate it. Also is it quicker to build from source on a UNIX based machine? It mentions building QT is time consuming on windows is it substantially faster on other OS's? *Info:* cmake-2.8.8-win32-x86 (just found out it is recommended to use 2.8.9+ ) Visual Studio 2008, 9.0 Professional Edition OS: Windows 7 64 bit Accessing ParaView-Superbuild and appropriate downloads via git Thanks for any help/tips Yaro
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