How to build paraview with openVR

VR/AR
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Dear PVer,
Forgive my simple question, but i cannot find useful instructions to build plugin openVR…

in build command line, I set “-DPARAVIEW_PLUGIN_ENABLE_OpenVR=ON” to enable openVR build, but it failed with error “missing: OpenVR_LIBRARY OpenVR_INCLUDE_DIR”…

then i download openVR source code from:

and add these two definition in build command line
OpenVR_LIBRARY=openvr_api.lib
OpenVR_INCLUDE_DIR=openVR\headers

the build is successful, but to run this run application will need openvr_api.dll

my questions:

  • Is this the right way to build paraview openVR?

  • When search released paraview, there is no such lib openvr_api.dll?

Could you please help me!

Sharon

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That is correct, openvr_api.dll comes with the OpenVR SDK you cloned. Just copy it into the directory where your paraview.exe file is and it should find it.

3

Thank you Ken for your kind reply!
The confusion for me is: when i down load the latest paraview 5.8.1, why i cannot find such openvr_api.dll, it is renamed or using static link? or something else?

Many thanks for your answers!
Best Regards,
Sharon