Hi Tom, On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Tom T <tomt...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've been trying so far unsuccessfully to compile paraview and I'm not sure > what the error message means. > > [snip] > > /scratch/fronk/software/ParaView/VTK/Rendering/Matplotlib/vtkMatplotlibMathTextUtilities.cxx: > In member function ‘virtual bool > vtkMatplotlibMathTextUtilities::StringToPath(const char*, vtkPath*, > vtkTextProperty*)’: > /scratch/fronk/software/ParaView/VTK/Rendering/Matplotlib/vtkMatplotlibMathTextUtilities.cxx:581: > error: ‘Py_ssize_t’ was not declared in this scope
Py_ssize_t is a type defined by the python C API, but it looks like it wasn't introduced until Python 2.5, so I'm guess that you have an older version of python installed? What is the output of "python --version"? The matplotlib library requires python >= 2.6, so if your python is older than this, you'll need to update your python installation, or disable matplotlib in the ParaView build by editing CMake/VTKModules.cmake and commenting out this section (around line 350): # Enable vtkRenderingMatplotlib for math text rendering if python is available if (PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON) list (APPEND _vtk_modules vtkRenderingMatplotlib) endif() I'll push a patch to only enable the matplotlib module when python is an appropriate version. Thanks for the report! Dave _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
