Packaging Paraview superbuild with custom python packages

[jjw]

Hi all,

I’m currently trying to build a paraview distribution package that includes some python modules, e.g. pydicom, nutils. How should I configure the cmake?

I followed the instructions on gitlab page, but it seems it only support certain python packages. I tried ENABLE_xxx (in my case for example ENABLE_nutils) in the camke configuration, it didn’t work.

[jjw]

@mwestphal @ben.boeckel Could anyone share some lights on this? Huge thanks.

[mwestphal (Mathieu Westphal (Kitware))]

Hi @jjw

You need to fork/submodule the superbuild in order to introduce your own python projects so they can be packaged.

Hth,

[ben.boeckel (Ben Boeckel (Kitware))]

Python packages that get packaged are listed in paraview.bundle.common.cmake. You’ll need to add your module/package to that list along with the project name that provides it.

check_for_python_module(superbuild_project_name python_package_name)