Failling to build ParaView-Superbuild

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Hi, I am trying to build ParaView-Superbuild from scratch. I want to install two plugins, (i) superquadrics to render and visualize sphero cylinders [MercuryDPM: Visualising Superquadrics in Paraview], and (ii) I want to enable Virtual Reality using OpenVR (note that OpenXR lost support last year, 2024).

Before even doing anything of this fancy build, I tried the default build to see how far I can get with my Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS. Well, I generate the MakeFile but it fails to build. Let me share the error that pops out.

CMake Error at /home/ar-valdez/anaconda3/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message): Could NOT find X11 (missing: X11_X11_LIB) Call Stack (most recent call first): /home/ar-valdez/anaconda3/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:600 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE) VTK/CMake/patches/99/FindX11.cmake:665 (find_package_handle_standard_args) VTK/ThirdParty/glad/vtkglad/CMakeLists.txt:51 (find_package) -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! CMake Error at /home/ar-valdez/paraview-superbuild/build/superbuild/sb-paraview-configure.cmake:48 (message): Failed with exit code 1
The curious fact is that I DO have installed that X11 library…
libx11-dev is already the newest version (2:1.8.7-1build1). libx11-dev set to manually installed.

Is anyone facing this problem too? All help and comments are welcome…

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anaconda3/share/cmake-3.28

Can you try configuring superbuild/paraview/build with --debug-find? I suspect that Anaconda might not be searching the system by default. Possible solutions (in no particular order):

  • download a separate CMake and use it (running .gitlab/ci/cmake.sh from the top of the repo will drop a suitable one to .gitlab/cmake/bin/cmake)
  • install X11 libraries in Anaconda
  • use an apt install cmake
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Same mistake occurs, even deactivating (base) doing conda deactivate, I can confirm that cmake is installed version 3.28.3

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Can you get the relevant X11 output from configuring ParaView with the --debug-find flag?

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it is caused by anaconda: Could NOT find X11 (missing: X11_X11_LIB) · Issue #1957 · glfw/glfw · GitHub

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Well, what can I say. I “deactivated conda” conda deactivate The mistake persists after generating the makefile…and hitting make -j10… Sorry this should be for @mwestphal… What can I do, beyond deactivating conda? Thank you.-

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Hi Thanks for the response. I did your advice the terminal output is kind long to paste it here. Should I be looking for anything in particular? I can send it by email if you want to check the log…

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If you can clip it to the X11-searching bits, that should fit here. Or on a pastebin of your choice.

Generally you need a clean build (nuke install/ and superbuild/), not just a clean configure for a clean superbuild.

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Hello, this is my output file. Look at it, I get the same output if I do conda deactivate.Thanks Ben.

out.log (86.2 KB)

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That’s the output of the superbuild’s configure. The output of ParaView’s configure with the extra debugging is required (this is where X11 is searched for).

I suppose you could also stick a find_package(X11) in the superbuild’s cmake and configure with it and --find-debug…probably a lot less noise there.

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Not sure how to ask cmake to find X11. How should the terminal command look like?

>> ccmake --find-debug find_package(X11) ..? Thanks.-

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Edit the superbuild’s top-level CMakeLists.txt to have find_package(VTK) and then configure with the --find-debug flag.