ParaView 5.9 and minimum/recommended QT version

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With Qt 5.15 LTS being out since May, it’s probably time to update the QT versions required by ParaView as follows:

  • minimum Qt version: 5.12 LTS
  • recommended Qt version: 5.15 LTS
  • binaries to be built with Qt version 5.15 LTS

Any objections/concerns? If not, we should plan to do this in time for upcoming 5.9 release.

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+1

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What Qt version do the various distros package by default?

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It feels like rendering is faster with Qt 5.15. Did not measured that though.

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Ubuntu 16.04 (EOL 2021) : Qt 5.5
Ubuntu 18.04 (EOL 2023) : Qt 5.9
Ubuntu 20.04 (EOL 2025) : Qt 5.12

Debian Stretch (EOL 2020) : Qt 5.7
Debian Buster (EOL 2022) : Qt 5.11
Debian Bullseye (NO EOL) : Qt 5.14

Centos 6 (EOL 2017) : Qt 5.6
Centos 7 (EOL 2020) : Qt 5.9
Centos 8 (EOL 2023) : Qt 5.12

Fedora 30 (EOL 2020) : Qt 5.12
Fedora 31 (EOL 2021?) : Qt 5.12
Fedora 32 (EOL 2022?) : Qt 5.13

OpenSUSE 15.1 (EOL 2020) : Qt 5.9
OpenSUSE 15.2 (EOL 2021) : Qt 5.12

from pkgs.org

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Unless we get a champion to chaperon this change, this may not happen for 5.9.

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ParaView 5.7 builds and works fine using Qt 5.15.1 with a number of deprecation warnings on macOS

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Update: ParaView 5.9 will require Qt 5.12. Please see https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/merge_requests/4422/diffs?commit_id=24fcce7e8027f48f22dee2396eb828491934838c.

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And I noticed that visual studio versions required by paraview has changed to 2017(all previous versions of paraview requires VS-2015). Looks like a big update.

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Yes, there is some concern. The latest git clone from 5.9.0 Paraview does not compile with Qt 5.12. At 92%

[ 92%] Building CXX object VTK/GUISupport/Qt/CMakeFiles/GUISupportQt.dir/GUISupportQt_autogen/mocs_compilation.cpp.o

In file included from /path/to/ParaView/5.9.0/buildHere/VTK/GUISupport/Qt/GUISupportQt_autogen/mocs_compilation.cpp:2:0:
/trinity/opt/apps/software/ParaView/5.9.0/buildHere/VTK/GUISupport/Qt/GUISupportQt_autogen/EWIEGA46WW/moc_QFilterTreeProxyModel.cpp:65:1: error: ‘QT_INIT_METAOBJECT’ does not name a type; did you mean ‘Q_INIT_RESOURCE’?
QT_INIT_METAOBJECT const QMetaObject QFilterTreeProxyModel::staticMetaObject = { {

There are about 18 such instances of an unrecognized QT_INIT_METAOBJECT in that source file.
This is done in CentOS7 with GCC 7.2.0.

I am testing now if it does compile with 5.15…

Edit: Same issue with 5.15…

Cheers
Lukas

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For me it’s ok for ParaView 5.9 & Qt 5.15.x on macOS

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Eventually I got Paraview to work.
It turned out that I compiled Qt incorrectly.
Once I recompiled Qt, I could compile Paraview as well.