Custom Reader Plugin

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Hello,
I developed a reader plugin for lammps/liggghts dump files years ago. I reworked it for the new PV 5.8.1 module structure as shown in the doxygen documentation [1] and it works as expected with the self-compiled ParaView code. When it is loaded into the binary releases for Win (ParaView 5.8.1-Windows-Python3.7-msvc2015-64bit) it complains about undefinied reference to CollectRevisions@vtkObjectBase in reader_module.dll.
I used MSVC Version 14.0.25431.01 Update 3, QT5.12.3 and Python 3.8.6 to compile PV from source and pointed CMAKE to the PVB dir when generating the reader plugin.
Sourcecode and CMake-Files can be found here:


I guess I’m missing something in the linking stage.
Thanks for your help,
Christian.
[1] https://kitware.github.io/paraview-docs/v5.8.1/cxx/PluginHowto.html
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Build a plugin for the release of ParaView is not trivial, even on Windows. You will need to use the superbuild, the same options and the same compilation chain to ensure compatibility.

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make sure that your local ParaView was build using the following variable VTK_LEGACY_REMOVE=ON.

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Thank you Michal,
this did the trick.