Advice on building paraview (superbuild??) for OpenFOAM runTimePostProcessing

ParaView Support
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Hello,

Recently I’ve been trying to use the runTimePostProcessing in OpenFOAM, and I cannot get any working paraview build out of the OpenFOAM packages. LLVM fails to build, so then no mesa/VTK/pv.

I’ve been using the superbuild for several years; I’m always able to get a working build, x86, ARM, graphics card/headless - great tool! So I tried build the OpenFOAM visualization module using an existing paraview superbuild:

export ParaView_DIR=/data/paraview/sb_5.7.0
/data/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v2112/modules/visualization/Allwmake

But I just get the errors at the end of this post. I am not quite sure what “remotingCore” is, and I can’t figure out any flags I could use to build this component?

Any general advice on how best to get runTimePostProcessing working? Am I crazy trying to use an external superbuild for this? Superbuild options (graphic-less ARM64) are below for reference:

cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/data/paraview/$pvVer
-Dmesa_USE_SWR=OFF
-DENABLE_llvm=ON
-DENABLE_pythondateutil=ON
-DENABLE_pythonsix=OFF
-DENABLE_numpy=OFF
-DENABLE_paraview=ON
-DENABLE_qt5=OFF
-DENABLE_python3=ON
-DENABLE_python=OFF
-DENABLE_osmesa=ON
-DENABLE_mpi=ON
-DUSE_SYSTEM_python3=ON
-DUSE_SYSTEM_mpi=ON ./paraview-superbuild/


CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:66 (find_package):
  Found package configuration file:

    /data/paraview/5.7.0/lib/cmake/paraview-5.7/paraview-config.cmake

  but it set ParaView_FOUND to FALSE so package "ParaView" is considered to
  be NOT FOUND.  Reason given by package:

  Could not find the ParaView package with the following required components:
  RemotingCore.
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Just download our binary release from : https://www.paraview.org/download/

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For ARM64?

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ParaView is not (officialy) compatible with ARM64.

In any case, try to follow the ParaView build guide instead of relying on external script to build ParaView:
https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/blob/master/Documentation/dev/build.md#linux

Do not use the superbuild unless you need specific libs that you do now want to build yourself. If you need osmesa and your distribution does not provide a package, you may want to use the superbuild in that case.

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Thanks for the answers. The superbuild has given me working builds on ARM64 (5.7.0, 5.9.1). My issue is how to get a build that will allow for OpenFOAM’s runTimePostProcessing (I guess this is called “in situ”)

I’m trying to build the “CATALYST_RENDERING” edition, but I get contradictory errors. VTK is missing IOFFMPEG, but if I build FFMPEG, catalyst is incompatible with IO support. Perhaps a bug, but my guess is I am simply unaware of some flags I should be setting?

CMake Error at /data/pvsuper/sb_5.10.0/install/lib/cmake/paraview-5.10/paraview-config.cmake:169 (find_package):
  Found package configuration file:

    /data/pvsuper/sb_5.10.0/install/lib/cmake/paraview-5.10/vtk/vtk-config.cmake

  but it set VTK_FOUND to FALSE so package "VTK" is considered to be NOT
  FOUND.  Reason given by package:

  Could not find the VTK package with the following required components:
  IOFFMPEG.

  ParaView is configured without I/O support (via the CATALYST_RENDERING
  edition) which is incompatible with the request for FFmpeg support (via the
  `PARAVIEW_ENABLE_FFMPEG` configure option)

cmake -D ENABLE_llvm=ON -D ENABLE_pythondateutil=ON -D ENABLE_pythonsix=OFF -D ENABLE_numpy=OFF -D ENABLE_qt5=OFF -D ENABLE_python3=ON -D ENABLE_osmesa=ON -D ENABLE_mpi=ON -D USE_SYSTEM_python3=ON -D ENABLE_vtkm=ON -D USE_SYSTEM_mpi=ON -D PARAVIEW_BUILD_EDITION=CATALYST_RENDERING ./paraview-superbuild/

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maybe @Francois_Mazen @nicolas.vuaille or @utkarsh.ayachit can help

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I know this was a year ago, but I ran into the same issue and solved it with the following for anyone else out there looking for an answer. Anyway, here is how I compiled ParaView with OpenFOAM’s make script. You could achieve pretty much the same thing using the superbuild and cmake. These are my notes from a year ago:

With OF2112 and PV5.10, need to manually enable ffmpeg in PV due to OF catalyst requiring it. Added these Cmake variables:

PARAVIEW_ENABLE_FFMPEG=ON VTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_IOFFMPEG=YES

  • Also to avoid some python symbol errors in catalyst:

VTK_PYTHON_OPTIONAL_LINK=OFF

To do with OF make script:

./makeParaView -mesa -mpi -python3 -no-qt -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_FFMPEG=ON -DVTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_IOFFMPEG=YES -DVTK_PYTHON_OPTIONAL_LINK=OFF

This was based on the following thread:

I also had to add quotes to the variable in line 164 of the following file:
./ThirdParty-v2112/platforms/linuxARM64Gcc/ParaView-5.10.0/lib/cmake/paraview-5.10/paraview-config.cmake

Separately, I don’t think 5.11.0 is compatible with OpenFOAM’s catalyst plugin.