Building ParaView 5.12.0 from tar-ball with GNU Make (no documentation; recipe)

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Hi. I want to share that the following modifications to the Arch Linux package of paraview (version 5.12.0, commit 6bafb5b) allowed me to build with CMake and GNU Make (without Ninja), albeit without documentation.

Relevant to the developers: I had to change some source files slightly. It may be that some of the modifications are not completely needed.

If it is useful in any way, and you want to incorporate it into the repository, I don’t need attribution at all. If you still need a name to track the change, just use eDgar edgar@discourse.paraview.org. Thank you for ParaView!

--- ParaView-v5.12.0/Clients/ParaView/CMakeLists.txt	
+++ ParaView-v5.12.0/Clients/ParaView/CMakeLists.txt	2024-05-12
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@
   ParaViewMainWindow.h
   ParaViewMainWindow.ui)
 
+if (PARAVIEW_ENABLE_EMBEDDED_DOCUMENTATION)
+  set(doc_dir "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/Documentation")
+  include_directories(${doc_dir})
+  list(APPEND sources "${doc_dir}/ParaViewDocumentationInitializer.h")
+endif()
+
 find_package("Qt${PARAVIEW_QT_MAJOR_VERSION}" REQUIRED QUIET COMPONENTS Core Widgets)
 
 if (APPLE)
@@ -102,7 +108,8 @@
 if (PARAVIEW_ENABLE_EMBEDDED_DOCUMENTATION)
   target_link_libraries(paraview
     PRIVATE
-      vtkParaViewDocumentation)
+    vtkParaViewDocumentation)
+  # target_include_directories(paraview PRIVATE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/Documentation")
 endif ()
 
 if(PARAVIEW_QT_MAJOR_VERSION GREATER "5")
--- ParaView-v5.12.0/Qt/ApplicationComponents/CMakeLists.txt	
+++ ParaView-v5.12.0/Qt/ApplicationComponents/CMakeLists.txt	2024-05-12 
@@ -218,6 +218,9 @@
   )
 
 set(ui_files
+  Resources/UI/pqNewMaterialDialog.ui
+  Resources/UI/pqMaterialEditor.ui
+
   Resources/UI/pqAxesToolbar.ui
   Resources/UI/pqBackgroundEditorWidget.ui
   Resources/UI/pqBoxPropertyWidget.ui
@@ -297,7 +300,7 @@
     Resources/UI/pqEditMacrosDialog.ui)
 endif ()
 
-if (paraview_use_materialeditor)
+# if (paraview_use_materialeditor)
   list(APPEND classes
     pqMaterialAttributesDelegate
     pqMaterialEditor
@@ -306,7 +309,7 @@
   list(APPEND ui_files
     Resources/UI/pqMaterialEditor.ui
     Resources/UI/pqNewMaterialDialog.ui)
-endif ()
+# endif ()
 
 if (PARAVIEW_USE_QTHELP)
   list(APPEND qt_components
--- ParaView-v5.12.0/Clients/ParaView/Documentation/CMakeLists.txt
+++ ParaView-v5.12.0/Clients/ParaView/Documentation/CMakeLists.txt	2024-05-12 
@@ -51,6 +51,13 @@
 
 find_package("Qt${PARAVIEW_QT_MAJOR_VERSION}" REQUIRED QUIET COMPONENTS Core)
 
+set(headers
+  ParaViewDocumentationInitializer.h)
+
+set(sources
+  ParaViewDocumentationInitializer.cxx
+  ParaViewDocumentationInitializer.h)
+
 add_library(vtkParaViewDocumentation STATIC
   ParaViewDocumentationInitializer.cxx
   ParaViewDocumentationInitializer.h
*** ParaView-v5.12.0/Qt/ApplicationComponents/pqNewMaterialDialog.cxx	
--- ParaView-v5.12.0/Qt/ApplicationComponents/pqNewMaterialDialog.cxx	2024-05-12
***************
*** 2,7 ****
--- 2,8 ----
  // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) Sandia Corporation
  // SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
  #include "pqNewMaterialDialog.h"
+ #include "ui_pqNewMaterialDialog.h"
  
  #include "vtkOSPRayMaterialLibrary.h"
  
--- ParaView-v5.12.0/Qt/ApplicationComponents/pqMaterialEditor.h	
+++ ParaView-v5.12.0/Qt/ApplicationComponents/pqMaterialEditor.h	2024-05-12
@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@
 class vtkSMProxy;
 class QDockWidget;
 
+namespace Ui
+{
+  class pqMaterialEditor;
+}
+
+
 /**
  * @brief pqMaterialEditor is a widget that can be used to edit the OSPRay materials.
  *


@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ depends=(qt5-tools qt5-svg intel-tbb openmpi ffmpeg
          jsoncpp libjsoncpp.so libharu libxml2 lz4 xz python-mpi4py netcdf
          libogg libpng pugixml libtheora libtiff zlib verdict)
 optdepends=(python-matplotlib python-pandas)
-makedepends=(cmake boost mesa gcc-fortran ninja qt5-xmlpatterns cli11 eigen utf8cpp fast_float)
+makedepends=(cmake boost mesa gcc-fortran ninja qt5-xmlpatterns cli11 eigen utf8cpp fast_float qt5-tools)
 # pegtl: https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/-/issues/18151
 # rapidjson: https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/-/issues/18366
 # fmt: https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/21315
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ sha256sums=('d289afe7b48533e2ca4a39a3b48d3874bfe67cf7f37fdd2131271c57e64de20d'
             'd1cdb4a81db280d6b21bee3d9e5f8fc3a87f00a909d33850a1964c72091ec138'
             '844d44a14817c656ba8d6998298785125a98f03f7b5ece58d966c226db1e0d83'
             'fda145052b10f197cccbc2d02a3bba24b1aa7b512b72f4713f7d9cb0230bf8c9'
-            'faf3fd2eea2f73a07f5dcbd67920161a07ae554e008ad1e4099153fec2882278'
+            'fa89e770efaecc2bd45f1cd720ee21c1028f2229c8b0632eb4541a25ef764f6e'
             '71b3e049f4086ad570c0ffe3d9625ce63ee8abbf42017837495145e43d6aceab')
 
 prepare() {
@@ -60,43 +60,57 @@ prepare() {
 build() {
   export CFLAGS+=" -ffat-lto-objects"
   export CXXFLAGS+=" -ffat-lto-objects"
-  cmake -B build -S ParaView-v${pkgver/R/-R} -G Ninja \
-    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/paraview \
-    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LICENSEDIR=share/licenses/paraview \
-    -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 \
-    -DVTK_IGNORE_CMAKE_CXX11_CHECKS=ON \
-    -DCMAKE_SKIP_INSTALL_RPATH=OFF \
-    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_ADIOS2=ON \
-    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_FFMPEG=ON \
-    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_FIDES=ON \
-    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_GDAL=ON \
-    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_LAS=ON \
-    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_MOTIONFX=ON \
-    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_PDAL=ON \
-    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_RAYTRACING=ON \
-    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_VISITBRIDGE=ON \
-    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_XDMF3=ON \
-    -DPARAVIEW_USE_MPI=ON \
-    -DPARAVIEW_USE_PYTHON=ON \
-    -DPARAVIEW_VERSIONED_INSTALL=OFF \
-    -DPARAVIEW_BUILD_WITH_EXTERNAL=ON \
-    -DVTK_SMP_IMPLEMENTATION_TYPE=TBB \
-    -DVTKm_ENABLE_MPI=ON \
-    -DCATALYST_USE_MPI=ON \
-    -DFIDES_USE_EXTERNAL_RAPIDJSON=OFF \
-    -DVTK_MODULE_USE_EXTERNAL_ParaView_vtkcatalyst=OFF \
-    -DVTK_MODULE_USE_EXTERNAL_VTK_exprtk=OFF \
-    -DVTK_MODULE_USE_EXTERNAL_VTK_fmt=OFF \
-    -DVTK_MODULE_USE_EXTERNAL_VTK_ioss=OFF \
-    -DVTK_MODULE_USE_EXTERNAL_VTK_pegtl=OFF \
-    -DVTK_MODULE_USE_EXTERNAL_VTK_token=OFF \
+  _confopts=(
+    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
+    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/paraview
+    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LICENSEDIR=share/licenses/paraview
+    -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17
+    -DVTK_IGNORE_CMAKE_CXX11_CHECKS=ON
+    -DCMAKE_SKIP_INSTALL_RPATH=OFF
+    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_ADIOS2=ON
+    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_FFMPEG=ON
+    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_FIDES=ON
+    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_GDAL=ON
+    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_LAS=ON
+    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_MOTIONFX=ON
+    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_PDAL=ON
+    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_RAYTRACING=ON
+    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_VISITBRIDGE=ON
+    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_XDMF3=ON
+    -DPARAVIEW_USE_MPI=ON
+    -DPARAVIEW_USE_PYTHON=ON
+    -DPARAVIEW_VERSIONED_INSTALL=OFF
+    -DPARAVIEW_BUILD_WITH_EXTERNAL=ON
+    -DVTK_SMP_IMPLEMENTATION_TYPE=OpenMP
+    -DVTKm_ENABLE_MPI=ON
+    -DCATALYST_USE_MPI=ON
+    -DFIDES_USE_EXTERNAL_RAPIDJSON=OFF
+    -DVTK_MODULE_USE_EXTERNAL_ParaView_vtkcatalyst=OFF
+    -DVTK_MODULE_USE_EXTERNAL_VTK_exprtk=OFF
+    -DVTK_MODULE_USE_EXTERNAL_VTK_fmt=OFF
+    -DVTK_MODULE_USE_EXTERNAL_VTK_ioss=OFF
+    -DVTK_MODULE_USE_EXTERNAL_VTK_pegtl=OFF
+    -DVTK_MODULE_USE_EXTERNAL_VTK_token=OFF
+    -DVTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_IOGDAL=YES
+    -DVTK_MODULE_ENABLE_VTK_IOPDAL=YES
+    -DPARAVIEW_INSTALL_DEVELOPMENT_FILES=ON
+    # Does not work
+    # -DPARAVIEW_QT_VERSION:STRING="5"
+    # Did not try
+    # -DPARAVIEW_QT_VERSION:STRING="5.15.13"
+    -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_EMBEDDED_DOCUMENTATION=OFF
+    -DPARAVIEW_USE_QTWEBENGINE=OFF
+    -DOSPRAY_ROOT=/usr
     -Wno-dev
-  ninja -C build ${MAKEFLAGS}
+    # -G Ninja
+  )
+  cmake -B build -S ParaView-v${pkgver/R/-R} "${_confopts[@]}"
+  # ninja -C build ${MAKEFLAGS}
+  make -C build
 }
 
 package() {
-  DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" ninja -C build install
+  make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" -C build install
 
   # Install wrappers
   install -Dm755 paraview-wrapper.sh "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin/paraview-wrapper

My system

qt5-tools 5.15.13+kde+r4-1 (qt5)
qt5-svg 5.15.13+kde+r6-1 (qt5)
onetbb 2021.12.0-2
hdf5-openmpi 1.14.3-3
med-openmpi 4.1.1-8
netcdf-openmpi 4.9.2-4
openmpi 5.0.3-1
paraview 5.12.0-8
pnetcdf-openmpi 1.12.3-5
python-h5py-openmpi 3.11.0-1
scotch 7.0.4-1
ffmpeg 2:6.1.1-7
python-imageio-ffmpeg 0.4.9-1
qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg 6.7.0-1
adios2 2.10.0-2
liblas 1.8.1.r128+gded46373-8
ospray 3.1.0-2
pdal 2.7.1-1
python-numpy 1.26.4-2
protobuf 25.3-4
cgns 4.4.0-1
double-conversion 3.3.0-1
expat 2.6.2-1
freetype2 2.13.2-1
gdal 3.8.5-3
gl2ps 1.4.2-3
glew 2.2.0-6
hdf5-openmpi 1.14.3-3
python-h5py-openmpi 3.11.0-1
libjpeg-turbo 3.0.2-2
jsoncpp 1.9.5-2
jsoncpp 1.9.5-2
libharu 2.4.4-1
libxml2 2.12.6-2
perl-alien-libxml2 0.19-2
python-lxml 5.1.0-3
xmlsec 1.3.4-1
lz4 1:1.9.4-3
xz 5.6.1-3
python-mpi4py 3.1.5-5
netcdf-openmpi 4.9.2-4
pnetcdf-openmpi 1.12.3-5
libogg 1.3.5-1
libpng 1.6.43-1
pugixml 1.14-1
libtheora 1.1.1-6
libtiff 4.6.0-4
haskell-zlib 0.6.3.0-60
libdeflate 1.20-1
minizip 1:1.3.1-2
perl 5.38.2-1
zlib 1:1.3.1-2
zlib-ng 2.1.6-1
verdict 1.4.2-1
python-matplotlib 3.8.3-3
python-pandas 1.5.3-4
cmake 3.29.2-1
extra-cmake-modules 6.1.0-1 (kf6)
python-scikit-build-core 0.8.2-1
rkcommon 1.13.0-1
boost 1.83.0-7
boost-libs 1.83.0-7
glu 9.0.3-1
mesa 1:24.0.6-2
vulkan-mesa-layers 1:24.0.6-2
gcc-fortran 13.2.1-6
ninja 1.12.0-2
qt5-xmlpatterns 5.15.13-1 (qt5)
cli11 2.4.1-1
eigen 3.4.0-2
utf8cpp 4.0.5-1
fast_float 6.1.0-2
qt5-tools 5.15.13+kde+r4-1 (qt5)

CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i7-1260P, 16 CPUs,

fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhanced tpr_shadow flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb intel_pt sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves split_lock_detect user_shstk avx_vnni dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_pkg_req hfi vnmi umip pku ospke waitpkg gfni vaes vpclmulqdq rdpid movdiri movdir64b fsrm md_clear serialize arch_lbr ibt flush_l1d arch_capabilities

Linux 6.9.0-rc6-gnu

2

@edgar thanks for the tip. Since this proposes code changes rather than how to do something with ParaView, I moved it to the ParaView Support category. By the way, you may want to post the changes to ParaView’s package build in the Arch Linux ParaView issue tracker.

By the way, I noticed the checksum for the ospray-3.patch file has changed, but didn’t see any patch to that patch. What does the checksum change accomplish?

3

Thanks, Cory.

A warning to others: I should say that my binary opens 3D geometries (VTI, VTK, PVD, BP) in outline mode, and I can’t change to anything else. When the geometry is 2D, it only shows as surface. (This is not really a request for help.) It may be that this modification is the culprit, but I just accidentally deleted the build directory, and can’t recompile now:

namespace Ui
{
  class pqMaterialEditor;
}

I am a bit busy right now, and the repository of Arch requires slightly more involved authorisation, plus the time to report, but I will consider it.

Regarding the file, I forgot that I had changed this line:

diff --git a/ospray-3.patch b/ospray-3.patch
index a974146..4feb2cf 100644
--- a/ospray-3.patch
+++ b/ospray-3.patch
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ index 9d5ad4dd828..baa3078065e 100644
    vtk_module_find_package(PRIVATE_IF_SHARED
      PACKAGE ospray
 -    VERSION 2.1)
-+    VERSION 3.0)
++    VERSION 3.1)
  
    vtk_module_link(VTK::RenderingRayTracing
      PRIVATE

Thanks on behalf of everyone else who uses ParaView everyday.

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Hi! Now building with 5.12.1 sources and Ninja. The segfault is gone without the patch. The issue about the rendering is still there. I also cannot build the documentation (tried with Qt 6 & 5). I do build without internet, but I don’t see how that would change anything.

Thanks again.