Perhaps Tim's plugins should also have an option to compile in statically. There is a lot of interest in running infovis capabilities on these platforms.
-Ken On 1/14/09 8:31 AM, "Berk Geveci" <berk.gev...@kitware.com> wrote: > My point is that PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS may be unnecessary and at > some point may be obsolete. PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULES is useful when deploying ParaView with extensions on a platform that does not support shared libraries (for example Cray Xts and IBM Blue Genes). -berk On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmo...@sandia.gov> wrote: > John, > > You should talk to Tim Shead. As part of his OverView work, he is > implementing a mechanism is ParaView in which you can define a set of > plugins which you want loaded upon program startup. The vision is that one > day the ParaView application will really be an empty shell the defines its > GUI and implementation by opening a set of predefined plugins. > > My point is that PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS may be unnecessary and at > some point may be obsolete. > > -Ken > > > On 1/14/09 6:46 AM, "John Biddiscombe" <biddi...@cscs.ch> wrote: > > There used to be a PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULES - which allowed you > to compile modules into paraview - in fact it still exists, but probably > nobody uses it any more since plugins have improved so much. > > I have some users who want to compile paraview, and a couple of selected > plugins, and then do a single "make install" > > I've added PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS to the main paraview cmake, > which allows you to enter > > vtkCSCSCommon;vtkCSCSFluent;vtkCSCSNetCDF etc etc etc > > and then it prompts for paths to the sources, and compiles them at the > same time as paraview itself. > > Does anyone else need this functionality? Shall I add it to cvs? It's > very simple - but does make life easier for the less experienced users > (to manage one build instead of two). > > JB > > -- > John Biddiscombe, email:biddisco @ cscs.ch > http://www.cscs.ch/ > CSCS, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre | Tel: +41 (91) 610.82.07 > Via Cantonale, 6928 Manno, Switzerland | Fax: +41 (91) 610.82.82 > > > _______________________________________________ > ParaView mailing list > ParaView@paraview.org > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > > > > **** Kenneth Moreland > *** Sandia National Laboratories > *********** > *** *** *** email: kmo...@sandia.gov > ** *** ** phone: (505) 844-8919 > *** web: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~kmorel > > > _______________________________________________ > ParaView mailing list > ParaView@paraview.org > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > **** Kenneth Moreland *** Sandia National Laboratories *********** *** *** *** email: kmo...@sandia.gov ** *** ** phone: (505) 844-8919 *** web: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~kmorel
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