ParaView SuperBuild

Building ParaView on remote machines (e.g. supercomputers) can be difficult due to a variety of reasons. These include lack of needed libraries and difficulty building and installing them, determining appropriate modules to use, cross-compiling, etc. Because of this, Kitware provides a SuperBuild which simplifies the build and install process on a variety of architectures.

Clone the superbuild repo

Site	Machine	Platform	ParaView Version	Maintainer	Instructions
ANL ALCF	eureka	Linux	3.14	Andy Bauer	Modules loaded: +git-1.7.6.4 +mpich2-1.3.1-gnu +qt-4.6.2 @default Steps: cd paraview-binaries-superbuild git checkout -b new_master remotes/origin/new_master Create a build directory From the build directory -- ccmake <path to paraview-binraries-superbuild> Set the following cmake options: CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Release USE_SYSTEM_MPI ON USE_SYSTEM_PYTHON ON USE_SYSTEM_QT ON ENABLE_NEKTAR_PLUGIN ON (advanced option) Alternatively, use the command line: ccmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release \ -DUSE_SYSTEM_MPI:BOOL=ON \ -DUSE_SYSTEM_PYTHON:BOOL=ON \ -DUSE_SYSTEM_QT:BOOL=ON \ -DENABLE_NEKTAR_PLUGIN:BOOL=ON \ <path to paraview-binraries-superbuild> build with "make V=1" cpack -G TGZ -C Release --config CPackConfig.cmake I'm pretty sure you don't need the extra arguments. "cpack -G TGZ" is all you need to use. Utkarsh 16:46, 6 April 2012 (EDT)