# Errors when building Paraview 5.5.2

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/errors-when-building-paraview-5-5-2/506
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [August 31, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/errors-when-building-paraview-5-5-2/506 "2018-08-31T13:33:20Z")
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### Author: ![Maxime\_Boissonneault](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/maxime_boissonneault/32/4605_2.png) [@Maxime\_Boissonneault](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Maxime_Boissonneault)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/errors-when-building-paraview-5-5-2/506/1 "2018-08-31T13:33:20Z")

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Hi,  
I am trying to build ParaView. I am using :

- cmake 3.8.2
- HDF5 1.8.18
- Qt 5.10.1

using the following cmake line :  
cmake /dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/ParaView-v5.5.2/ -DCMAKE\_INSTALL\_PREFIX=/home/mboisson/.local/easybuild/software/2017/avx2/MPI/gcc5.4/openmpi2.1/paraview/5.5.2 -DCMAKE\_C\_COMPILER=‘mpicc’ -DCMAKE\_Fortran\_FLAGS=’-O2 -ftree-vectorize -march=core-avx2 -fno-math-errno -fPIC’ -DCMAKE\_CXX\_FLAGS=’-O2 -ftree-vectorize -march=core-avx2 -fno-math-errno -fPIC’ -DCMAKE\_CXX\_COMPILER=‘mpicxx’ -DCMAKE\_Fortran\_COMPILER=‘mpifort’ -DCMAKE\_C\_FLAGS=’-O2 -ftree-vectorize -march=core-avx2 -fno-math-errno -fPIC’ -DCMAKE\_VERBOSE\_MAKEFILE=ON -DCMAKE\_SKIP\_RPATH=ON -DPARAVIEW\_INSTALL\_DEVELOPMENT\_FILES=ON -DVTK\_OPENGL\_HAS\_OSMESA=ON -DPARAVIEW\_USE\_MPI=ON -DPARAVIEW\_QT\_VERSION=5 -DQT\_QMAKE\_EXECUTABLE=$EBROOTQT5/bin/qmake -DQt5\_DIR=$EBROOTQT5/lib/cmake/Qt5 -DPARAVIEW\_USE\_OSPRAY=ON -DOSPRAY\_INSTALL\_DIR=$NIXUSER\_PROFILE -DVTK\_USE\_SYSTEM\_HDF5=ON -DPARAVIEW\_ENABLE\_PYTHON=ON -DBUILD\_SHARED\_LIBS=ON -DBUILD\_TESTING=OFF -DExternalData\_OBJECT\_STORES=/dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/ExternalData

cmake works fine. However, it fails at the make step, with :

```
cd /dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/easybuild_obj/Wrapping/ClientServer && ../../bin/vtkWrapClientServer-pv5.5 @/dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/easybuild_obj/Wrapping/ClientServer/vtkRenderingCoreCS.args -o /dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/easybuild_obj/Wrapping/ClientServer/vtkPointPickerClientServ

```

er.cxx /dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/ParaView-v5.5.2/VTK/Rendering/Core/vtkPointPicker.h  
In file included from /cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/software/2017/Core/qt/5.10.1/include/QtWidgets/QApplication:1:0,  
from /dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/ParaView-v5.5.2/VTK/GUISupport/Qt/QVTKApplication.h:38,  
from /dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/ParaView-v5.5.2/VTK/GUISupport/Qt/QVTKApplication.cxx:15:  
/cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/software/2017/Core/qt/5.10.1/include/QtWidgets/qapplication.h:79:14: error: missing binary operator before token “(”  
#if QT\_CONFIG(wheelevent)  
^  
/cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/software/2017/Core/qt/5.10.1/include/QtWidgets/qapplication.h:157:14: error: missing binary operator before token “(”  
#if QT\_CONFIG(wheelevent)  
^  
[43%] CS Wrapping - generating vtkRenderedAreaPickerClientServer.cxx  
cd /dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/easybuild\_obj/Wrapping/ClientServer && …/…/bin/vtkWrapClientServer-pv5.5 @/dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/easybuild\_obj/Wrapping/ClientServer/vtkRenderingCoreCS.args -o /dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/easybuild\_obj/Wrapping/ClientServer/vtkRenderedAreaPickerClientServer.cxx /dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/ParaView-v5.5.2/VTK/Rendering/Core/vtkRenderedAreaPicker.h  
In file included from /cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/software/2017/Core/qt/5.10.1/include/QtCore/QTimer:1:0,  
from /dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/ParaView-v5.5.2/VTK/GUISupport/Qt/QVTKInteractorAdapter.cxx:40:  
/cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/software/2017/Core/qt/5.10.1/include/QtCore/qtimer.h:50:19: error: missing binary operator before token “(”  
#if QT\_HAS\_INCLUDE()  
^  
In file included from /cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/software/2017/Core/qt/5.10.1/include/QtCore/QTimer:1:0,  
from /dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/ParaView-v5.5.2/VTK/GUISupport/Qt/QVTKInteractorAdapter.cxx:40:  
/cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/software/2017/Core/qt/5.10.1/include/QtCore/qtimer.h:167:19: error: missing binary operator before token “(”  
#if QT\_HAS\_INCLUDE() || defined(Q\_QDOC)  
^  
/cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/software/2017/Core/qt/5.10.1/include/QtCore/qtimer.h:213:19: error: missing binary operator before token “(”  
#if QT\_HAS\_INCLUDE()  
^  
[43%] CS Wrapping - generating vtkScenePickerClientServer.cxx  
cd /dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/easybuild\_obj/Wrapping/ClientServer && …/…/bin/vtkWrapClientServer-pv5.5 @/dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/easybuild\_obj/Wrapping/ClientServer/vtkRenderingCoreCS.args -o /dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/easybuild\_obj/Wrapping/ClientServer/vtkScenePickerClientServer.cxx /dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/ParaView-v5.5.2/VTK/Rendering/Core/vtkScenePicker.h  
In file included from /cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/software/2017/Core/qt/5.10.1/include/QtGui/QResizeEvent:1:0,  
from /dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/ParaView-v5.5.2/VTK/GUISupport/Qt/QVTKInteractorAdapter.cxx:41:  
/cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/software/2017/Core/qt/5.10.1/include/QtGui/qevent.h:172:14: error: missing binary operator before token “(”  
#if QT\_CONFIG(wheelevent)  
^  
/cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/software/2017/Core/qt/5.10.1/include/QtGui/qevent.h:240:14: error: missing binary operator before token “(”  
#if QT\_CONFIG(tabletevent)  
^  
In file included from /cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/software/2017/Core/qt/5.10.1/include/QtGui/QResizeEvent:1:0,  
from /dev/shm/mboisson/avx2/ParaView/5.5.2/gompi-2016.4.11/ParaView-v5.5.2/VTK/GUISupport/Qt/QVTKInteractorAdapter.cxx:41:  
/cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/software/2017/Core/qt/5.10.1/include/QtGui/qevent.h:709:14: error: missing binary operator before token “(”  
#if QT\_CONFIG(whatsthis)  
^

Any ideas ?