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 $G/ParaView
   • configure
   • set PARAVIEW_BUILD_PLUGIN_VRPlugin and PARAVIEW_USE_MPI to ON
   • configure
   • set MPI_C_INCLUDE_PATH to /usr/include/openmpi-x86_64
   • configure and then generate
3. make
4. sudo make install

Running ParaView

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