how to study the code of paraview ?

ParaView Support
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I want to know more about paraview, I want to study the code, so, have any suggestions or document ?
Thank you.

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Hello and welcome:

The code is here:
https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview

The wiki is here:
https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView

The doc is here:
https://kitware.github.io/paraview-docs/latest/cxx/

ParaView is a big software though, we are you trying to achieve ?

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I suggest you build paraview from source, and then look into the code in IDE, which offers clear hierarchical levels and class connections, like I did. I have been studying this for a long time.

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Thanks everyone, I will learn it step by step.

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Dear Yoshino, I download the source, and run it in qt, then two errors are throwed, and the process costs about 3 minutes. So, Can i conveniently debug the source in qt ? As i am a developer of paraview.
Thanks.

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Well, I think you have to build a paraview project with CMake as [paraview wiki/build and install](link removed, see below) suggests. The errors may result from incompatibility among paraview components(e.g. Python, Qt, CMake). Iā€™m not sure whether paraview source could be directly run on Qt.

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Please, do not use the wiki, but the build.md instead : https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/blob/master/Documentation/dev/build.md

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okay, but why? I followed wiki and it worked for me.

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I think Mathieu want to say the build.md is more updated then wiki which may out of date compare to latest source code

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That makes sense, a lot of modules on wiki has long been deprecated(e.g. plugin-howto) so I have to look into ParaviewPlugin.cmake file for cmake functions.
But I use paraview 5.7 source and the latest now is 5.8, maybe the Build and Install module still works.