Installwithplugin

This page shows how to build OSUFlowVTK with Paraview plugin.

Required software:

• git
• ccmake
• Qt4 (Qt5 is not supported by Paraview for now)
  
• Paraview
  

Optional software:

• MPI to run parallel OSUFlow
  

Install MPI

Download mpich http://www.mpich.org/downloads/

Please use "--with-pic" when configuring mpich.  This is required to build the parallel OSUFlow plugin.  

Example of configuration:

 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-f77 --disable-fc --with-pic

Download QT4.8

http://qt-project.org/downloads

Please choose QT version 4.8

Download Paraview and the related packages

git clone git://paraview.org/ParaView.git
git submodule update

To successfully run some examples, please also download VTK example data:

git clone git://vtk.org/VTKData.git

Install Paraview

mkdir paraview_build
cd paraview_build
ccmake ../paraview
In the ccmake gui:
* set QMAKE path
* Turn on PARAVIEW_USE_MPI
* Turn on BUILD_SHARED_LIBS
make
make install

See more information in: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Build_And_Install

Download OSUFlow

git clone git@git.assembla.com:osuflowvtk.git

Install DIY and BIL

cd osuflowvtk/trunk/diy/src/bil-0.6.0/
./configure --with-pic (--disable-pnetcdf)
make 
make install (optional)
cd osuflowvtk/trunk/diy
./configure --enable-fpic
make 
make install (optional)

Install OSUFlow

git clone git@git.assembla.com:osuflowvtk.git
cd osuflowvtk
mkdir build
cd build
export CC="mpicc -fPIC" # to successfully build plugin 
export CXX="mpicxx -fPIC"
ccmake ../trunk
In the ccmake gui:
* Turn on WITH_BIL
* Turn on WITH_MPI
* Turn on WITH_PARAVIEW_PLUGINS
* Set BIL_DIR  (e.g.: trunk/diy/src/bil-0.6.0/src)
* Set DIY_DIR
* (check that BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is OFF.  Shared libs is not required if we use -fPIC flag)
make 

Build:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../osuflowvtk
make

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Load the plugin in Paraview

set the environment PV_PLUGIN_PATH to the built plugin folder (osuflowvtk/VTK/plugins) before running Paraview server

-- Chun-Ming (Jimmy) Chen