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Changes
Steps
TODO and Wish List

Changes

Had to update the SILO project for MSVC2008 manually.
- Silo patches didn't work due to some strange reason...
Network related bugs (on my side):
- Had to download freetype manually from http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.8/freetype-2.4.8.tar.gz/download
Added additional options for:
- installing the development files:
- define in CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX the path where it should be installed;
- set ParaView_INSTALL_DEVELOPMENT to ON.
- set ParaView_MPI_SUPERBUILD to OFF for using the System's MPI.
Also installs Open-MPI in the parent folder of the main installation, when it builds on Windows.

Steps

Windows

You'll have to do these steps once per architecture (x86 and x86_64):

Install the MSVC 2008 version of Qt 4.6.3 from http://code.google.com/p/qt-msvc-installer/.
Configure the project with the CMake GUI. For each one, you'll probably have to hit the "Configure" button.
- Properly define where to install by defining CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.
- Advice: use a two level path, e.g. c:\ParaViewBuilds\32bit\ParaView-3.14.1-win32-dev - this is because Open-MPI will be automatically installed at c:\ParaViewBuilds\32bit\OpenMPI-install
- Also properly define where to place the SuperBuild building area, namely the "Where to build the binaries". E.g.: C:\ParaView-xxx-SuperBuild\
- Point QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE to the full path to where qmake.exe from Qt 4.6.3 is.
- Select the option ParaView_INSTALL_DEVELOPMENT.
- If you want to spare yourself some grief, DO NOT use folder paths that have SPACES in them...
- When done configuring it all, hit the "Generate" button.
To build them all, open the file ParaViewSuperBuild.sln with MSVC 2008 Express.
- Choose the Release version, instead of the Debug version.
- Menu Solution -> Build Solution.
- There will be failures in the first run. Expected steps:
- Problems with SILO:
  1. Open the solution file ParaView-xxx-SuperBuild\Silo\SiloWindows\MSVC8\SiloWindows.sln...
  2. and make MSVC upgrade the project.
  3. File -> Save all.
  4. Close solution.
- Problems with vtkNetCDF when building win32 with MSVC2008:
  1. The error message was paraview-3.14.1-superbuild\include\H5public.h(133) : error C2632: 'int' followed by 'int' is illegal.
  2. To fix this, go to the folder ParaView-xxx-SuperBuild\ParaView-build\VTK\Utilities\vtknetcdf and edit the file ncconfig.h.
  3. Go to the line that has:
define ssize_t int
Comment it out:

//#define ssize_t int
Save and close.
Some packages might fail to download. You might need to download manually and place them at ParaView-xxx-SuperBuild\.
Build as many times as necessary, since there might be missing dependencies. Check the logs for errors.
When all built:
Open the solution file ParaView-xxx-SuperBuild\ParaView-build\ParaView.sln.
Select the Release build instead of the Debug one.
To install, choose one of the following methods:
- For full install, right click on the project INSTALL and select Project only -> Build only INSTALL.
- For library interfaces and header files only:
- Right click on the project INSTALL and select Properties;
- Pick from the tree on the left Configuration Properties -> Build Events -> Post-Build Event;
- In the Command edit box, change the part
  -DBUILD_TYPE=$(OutDir) -P cmake_install.cmake
  to
  -DBUILD_TYPE=$(OutDir) -DCOMPONENT=Development -P cmake_install.cmake
- Apply and OK these new settings.
- Right click on the project INSTALL and select Project only -> Build only INSTALL.

Packaging

Creating the self-extractables:

Have 7zip accessible from the command line and go to the base of the SuperBuild installations.
Run for each respective package the following commands:
- 7z a -sfx -t7z -mx=9 -ms=on -mmt=on OpenMPI-1.4.4-win32-r1.exe OpenMPI-1.4.4-win32
- 7z a -sfx -t7z -mx=9 -ms=on -mmt=on ParaView-3.14.1-win32-dev-r1.exe ParaView-3.14.1-win32-dev
- 7z a -sfx -t7z -mx=9 -ms=on -mmt=on OpenMPI-1.4.4-win64-r1.exe OpenMPI-1.4.4-win64
- 7z a -sfx -t7z -mx=9 -ms=on -mmt=on ParaView-3.14.1-win64-dev-r1.exe ParaView-3.14.1-win64-dev

Installing

Currently they are self-extractable, not installers themselves. Either run where they are and place the resulting folder where you want... Or run each self-extractable like this:

 OpenMPI-1.4.4-win32-r1.exe -o"C:\ParaViewDevs\"
 ParaView-3.14.1-win32-dev-r1.exe -o"C:\ParaViewDevs\"
 OpenMPI-1.4.4-win64-r1.exe -o"C:\ParaViewDevs\"
 ParaView-3.14.1-win64-dev-r1.exe -o"C:\ParaViewDevs\"

TODO and Wish List

Add additional options for:

installing ParaView at the end of the SuperBuild process.
need to hack the rule for PACKAGE in ParaView.
need PACKAGE and INSTALL entries in superbuild.

Actually, need something like this:

    ExternalProject_Add_Step(Silo CopySiloLib
      COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different ${Silo_source}/${silo_bin_dir}/silohdf5.lib ${Silo_install}/lib/silohdf5.lib
      DEPENDEES install
    )

Option for VCBuild, so it can upgrade Silo more easily when using the Express editions. But vcbuild only comes with the PlatformSDK.

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