mwestphal
November 5, 2018, 4:52pm
1
Using ParaView-superbuild master, I’m struggling to use paraviewpluginsexternal project.
I’ve configured it this way :
However the plugin is not built.
I’ve taken a look into paraview itself, a few cmake variables have been set without any effect. I tried doing the same in ParaView directly without much more success.
So, how to use this superbuild project ? How to build external plugin with ParaView automatically ?
ben.boeckel
November 5, 2018, 9:47pm
2
The ParaView-side of the equation is PARAVIEW_EXTERNAL_PLUGIN_DIRS. What is the value of it in ParaView’s build tree?
mwestphal
November 6, 2018, 10:34am
3
On the ParaView side, i see the following :
PARAVIEW_BUILD_PLUGIN_MyPlugin:BOOL=ON
PARAVIEW_EXTERNAL_PLUGIN_DIRS:STRING=/path/to/My/Plugin
PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS:STRING=
No MyPlugin shows up in the plugin part of the cmake configuration and it has not been built.
ben.boeckel
November 6, 2018, 3:11pm
4
You should see this:
message(STATUS "Processing external plugins under '${extra_dir}'")
This then looks for plugin.cmake files under the indicated directory.
mwestphal
November 6, 2018, 3:54pm
5
I do see the-- Processing external plugins under '/path/to/my/plugin/'
But then paraview_build does not contain an ExternalPlugins directory.
mwestphal
November 6, 2018, 4:02pm
6
Looks like I was missing a plugin.cmake in the indicated directory.
Imho, this should work without a plugin.cmake file.
mwestphal
November 6, 2018, 4:22pm
7
It is not able to build the Filter example plugin of ParaView, even with a plugin.cmake file added.
[glow@snowman ~/work/paraview/paraview_build]$ ninja
[2/52] Building CXX object ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/vtkMyElevationFilterClientServer.cxx.o
FAILED: ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/vtkMyElevationFilterClientServer.cxx.o
/usr/bin/c++ -DH5_BUILT_AS_DYNAMIC_LIB -DSMMyElevation_EXPORTS -I. -I/home/glow/work/vtkSandBox/Filter -IExternalPlugins/Filter -IVTK/Utilities/KWSys -IVTK/ThirdParty/jsoncpp/vtkjsoncpp/json -I/home/glow/work/paraview/paraview/VTK/ThirdParty/exodusII/vtkexodusII/include -IVTK/ThirdParty/exodusII/vtkexodusII/include -IVTK/ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/src -I/home/glow/work/paraview/paraview/VTK/ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/src -IVTK/ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/hl/src -I/home/glow/work/paraview/paraview/VTK/ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/hl/src -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Woverloaded-virtual -Wno-deprecated -Wno-strict-overflow -Wno-array-bounds -Wunreachable-code -g -fPIC -std=gnu++11 -MD -MT ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/vtkMyElevationFilterClientServer.cxx.o -MF ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/vtkMyElevationFilterClientServer.cxx.o.d -o ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/vtkMyElevationFilterClientServer.cxx.o -c ExternalPlugins/Filter/vtkMyElevationFilterClientServer.cxx
In file included from ExternalPlugins/Filter/vtkMyElevationFilterClientServer.cxx:5:
/home/glow/work/vtkSandBox/Filter/vtkMyElevationFilter.h:26:10: fatal error: vtkElevationFilter.h: No such file or directory
#include "vtkElevationFilter.h"
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
[3/52] Building CXX object ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/SMMyElevation_Plugin.cxx.o
FAILED: ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/SMMyElevation_Plugin.cxx.o
/usr/bin/c++ -DH5_BUILT_AS_DYNAMIC_LIB -DSMMyElevation_EXPORTS -I. -I/home/glow/work/vtkSandBox/Filter -IExternalPlugins/Filter -IVTK/Utilities/KWSys -IVTK/ThirdParty/jsoncpp/vtkjsoncpp/json -I/home/glow/work/paraview/paraview/VTK/ThirdParty/exodusII/vtkexodusII/include -IVTK/ThirdParty/exodusII/vtkexodusII/include -IVTK/ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/src -I/home/glow/work/paraview/paraview/VTK/ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/src -IVTK/ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/hl/src -I/home/glow/work/paraview/paraview/VTK/ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/hl/src -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Woverloaded-virtual -Wno-deprecated -Wno-strict-overflow -Wno-array-bounds -Wunreachable-code -g -fPIC -std=gnu++11 -MD -MT ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/SMMyElevation_Plugin.cxx.o -MF ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/SMMyElevation_Plugin.cxx.o.d -o ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/SMMyElevation_Plugin.cxx.o -c ExternalPlugins/Filter/SMMyElevation_Plugin.cxx
In file included from ExternalPlugins/Filter/SMMyElevation_Plugin.cxx:32:
ExternalPlugins/Filter/SMMyElevation_Plugin.h:43:10: fatal error: vtkConfigure.h: No such file or directory
#include "vtkConfigure.h"
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
[4/52] Building CXX object ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/SMMyElevationInit.cxx.o
FAILED: ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/SMMyElevationInit.cxx.o
/usr/bin/c++ -DH5_BUILT_AS_DYNAMIC_LIB -DSMMyElevation_EXPORTS -I. -I/home/glow/work/vtkSandBox/Filter -IExternalPlugins/Filter -IVTK/Utilities/KWSys -IVTK/ThirdParty/jsoncpp/vtkjsoncpp/json -I/home/glow/work/paraview/paraview/VTK/ThirdParty/exodusII/vtkexodusII/include -IVTK/ThirdParty/exodusII/vtkexodusII/include -IVTK/ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/src -I/home/glow/work/paraview/paraview/VTK/ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/src -IVTK/ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/hl/src -I/home/glow/work/paraview/paraview/VTK/ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/hl/src -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Woverloaded-virtual -Wno-deprecated -Wno-strict-overflow -Wno-array-bounds -Wunreachable-code -g -fPIC -std=gnu++11 -MD -MT ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/SMMyElevationInit.cxx.o -MF ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/SMMyElevationInit.cxx.o.d -o ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/SMMyElevationInit.cxx.o -c ExternalPlugins/Filter/SMMyElevationInit.cxx
ExternalPlugins/Filter/SMMyElevationInit.cxx:11:10: fatal error: vtkClientServerInterpreter.h: No such file or directory
#include "vtkClientServerInterpreter.h"
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
[5/52] Building CXX object ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/vtkMyElevationFilter.cxx.o
FAILED: ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/vtkMyElevationFilter.cxx.o
/usr/bin/c++ -DH5_BUILT_AS_DYNAMIC_LIB -DSMMyElevation_EXPORTS -I. -I/home/glow/work/vtkSandBox/Filter -IExternalPlugins/Filter -IVTK/Utilities/KWSys -IVTK/ThirdParty/jsoncpp/vtkjsoncpp/json -I/home/glow/work/paraview/paraview/VTK/ThirdParty/exodusII/vtkexodusII/include -IVTK/ThirdParty/exodusII/vtkexodusII/include -IVTK/ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/src -I/home/glow/work/paraview/paraview/VTK/ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/src -IVTK/ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/hl/src -I/home/glow/work/paraview/paraview/VTK/ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/hl/src -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Woverloaded-virtual -Wno-deprecated -Wno-strict-overflow -Wno-array-bounds -Wunreachable-code -g -fPIC -std=gnu++11 -MD -MT ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/vtkMyElevationFilter.cxx.o -MF ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/vtkMyElevationFilter.cxx.o.d -o ExternalPlugins/Filter/CMakeFiles/SMMyElevation.dir/vtkMyElevationFilter.cxx.o -c /home/glow/work/vtkSandBox/Filter/vtkMyElevationFilter.cxx
In file included from /home/glow/work/vtkSandBox/Filter/vtkMyElevationFilter.cxx:15:
/home/glow/work/vtkSandBox/Filter/vtkMyElevationFilter.h:26:10: fatal error: vtkElevationFilter.h: No such file or directory
#include "vtkElevationFilter.h"
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
It would be nice if you could provide a compatible plugin.
ben.boeckel
November 7, 2018, 9:26pm
8
It’s probably out-of-date. I’ll make sure to look at it during the update to the new module system. Where does that filter live? Inside ParaView?
mwestphal
November 8, 2018, 8:31am
9
Example/Plugins in the paraview sources contain many example plugins which builds perfectly on their own. I was not able to build any of them using PARAVIEW_EXTERNAL_PLUGIN_DIRS, even XML only plugins.
I’m just trying to find a working plugin here.
ben.boeckel
November 8, 2018, 2:57pm
10
That sounds OK to me. Building a plugin as part of ParaView just requires a plugin.cmake so ParaView’s build can offer an option to build it or not as part of the CMake code. A standalone plugin doesn’t need such things because it’s always going to build the plugin. Documentation could be improved (though it’ll happen due to the new module system anyways).
mwestphal
November 8, 2018, 3:16pm
11
@ben.boeckel : I’m not talking about the plugin.cmake file here, i have other errors when building with external plugin feature. Can you do the following :
copy a plugin containing a plugin.cmake somewhere
compile paraview with PARAVIEW_EXTERNAL_PLUGIN_DIRS pointing to this plugin
If that works for you, please share the working plugin.
ben.boeckel
November 8, 2018, 7:21pm
12
The superbuild does it for vortexfinder2 which is part of the binaries.
mwestphal
November 9, 2018, 9:40am
13
mwestphal
November 27, 2018, 4:17pm
14
not an issue, the CMakeLists.txt must contain something like
IF (ParaView_SOURCE_DIR)
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES( ${VTK_INCLUDE_DIRS} )
ELSE (ParaView_SOURCE_DIR)
FIND_PACKAGE(ParaView REQUIRED)
INCLUDE(${PARAVIEW_USE_FILE})
ENDIF (ParaView_SOURCE_DIR)
npillai2
July 15, 2020, 9:13am
15
Hi @mwestphal , I’m experiencing the same issue. My configuration is
cmake -make \
-DENABLE_paraviewpluginsexternal=ON \
-Dparaview_PLUGINS_AUTOLOAD=PhastaSyncIOReader \
-Dparaview_PLUGINS_EXTERNAL=PhastaSyncIOReader \
-Dparaview_PLUGIN_PhastaSyncIOReader_PATH=/home/npillai2/ParaViewSyncIOReaderPlugin \
-DSUPERBUILD_PROJECT_PARALLELISM=2 \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/usrapps/iabolotn/install/paraview_5.8.0 \
../paraview-superbuild
when adding the following
IF (ParaView_SOURCE_DIR)
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES( ${VTK_INCLUDE_DIRS} )
ELSE (ParaView_SOURCE_DIR)
FIND_PACKAGE(ParaView REQUIRED)
INCLUDE(${PARAVIEW_USE_FILE})
ENDIF (ParaView_SOURCE_DIR)
to the end of my CMakeLists.txt (lines 375-380) [which, by the way, is not located in the “build” directory, only the parent “paraview-superbuild”] , I get this error if I go through ccmake
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:378 (FIND_PACKAGE):
By not providing "FindParaView.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "ParaView",
but CMake did not find one.
Could not find a package configuration file provided by "ParaView" with any
of the following names:
ParaViewConfig.cmake
paraview-config.cmake
Add the installation prefix of "ParaView" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"ParaView_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If
"ParaView" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
been installed.
This is a little confusing to me as usually the parent directory with whatever I get from github has those files (i.e. if it’s not the superbuild, e.g. via “git clone https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview.git ”) but the superbuild works so many layers of magic, I have no idea where those files are.
Am I putting the commands in the right place? And if not, how should I go about resolving this issue?
mwestphal
July 15, 2020, 9:29am
16
please open your own thread.