Building ParaView

Currently, this has only been tested and shown to work on the CCV test curved wall at 94 Waterman.

Setting Up and Checking Everything Out

1. cd $G
   • Before performing this step define $G as your sandbox directory
     • An example can be found at Set_up_your_environment_for_diffusion_MRI_processing#Set_up_your_environment
     • The file which you must edit may vary on different operating systems
   • Visit the ParaView wiki to make sure you have all of the prerequisite packages
2. git clone git://paraview.org/ParaView.git ParaView
3. cd $G/ParaView
4. git checkout -b trunk origin/master
5. git submodule init
6. git submodule update
7. mkdir $G/ParaView-bin

Building ParaView

1. cd $G/ParaView-bin
2. ccmake -D MPIEXEC=/usr/lib64/openmpi/bin/mpiexec -D QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE=/usr/lib64/qt48/bin/qmake -D PARAVIEW_BUILD_PLUGIN_VRPlugin=ON -D PARAVIEW_USE_MPI=ON -D MPI_C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/openmpi-x86_64 -D MPI_HEADER_PATH=/usr/include/openmpi-x86_64 -D PARAVIEW_USE_VRPN=ON -D VRPN_INCLUDE_DIR=/share/cave/include/vrpn -D VRPN_LIBRARY=/share/cave/lib/libvrpn.a $G/ParaView
   • configure twice and then generate
3. make
4. sudo make install

Running ParaView

1. cd $G/ParaView-bin/bin
2. ./paraview