Re: [Paraview] Trouble building the ParaView sources

[Rob Groner]

No worries.  Turns out it was badly configured environment variables. 
I think there was some recursion going on in there somewhere, and so it
said "Configuring..." and never returned.

I got it sorted out for now. Thanks!

Rob


On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 17:08 +, Dreer, Jutta wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> sorry for the late reply, other topics at work and at home were
> consuming all of my time...
> 
> As to the time cmake needs for configuration and for generating all
> the makefiles: I did not mean hours, but rather minutes. Configure
> took about 30 seconds and generate up to 90 seconds. But half a
> minute can be a long time when you want to go along and test the
> effects of your changes.
> 
> As far as I remember there was some cmake-Variable where you could
> specify if you want to download the most recent version of the
> sources from a repository. I did not use that, and I would expect to
> happen the download not when configuring but when calling "make", but
> I installed 5.2 and this might have changed. Are you sure you are not
> waiting for some download to take place?
> 
> When calling make, Paraview 5.2 fetched some prerequisites from the
> Paraview download page which took quite some time.
> 
> Sorry, no more ideas.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jutta
> Von: Rob Groner <rob.gro...@psu.edu>
> Gesendet: Freitag, 23. Juni 2017 17:06:34
> An: Dreer, Jutta
> Cc: paraview@paraview.org
> Betreff: Re: AW: [Paraview] Trouble building the ParaView sources
>  
> Thank you for the help, Jutta.
> 
> When you say "There are many of them, takes some time"...do you mean
> hours?  So far I've tried running ccmake and cmake-gui and executing
> the configure, but once it starts doing that, I see absolutely no
> indication that it is doing anything else.  Nothing prints to the
> screen, "top" doesn't show that cmake is using any CPU, and when I
> use
> cmake-gui, the little progress bar does not move.
> 
> If it's that slow of a process, than I can just leave it for a day
> and
> come back, but it seems more likely that something is wrong.
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 10:17 +, Dreer, Jutta wrote:
> > Hi Rob,
> > 
> > I did not install 5.4 so far, only 5.2. But I have a hint for the
> > last of your questions that might help:
> > 
> > When calling ccmake, the cache is always empty in the beginning.
> The
> > first action you should initiate is to type "c" (abbreviation of
> > "configure"). This will trigger ccmake to read all CMakeLists.txt
> > files in the software tree (there are many of them, takes some
> time).
> > These describe the installation with all its variables. After that
> > you should see all the variables.
> > 
> > If your cache is still empty, maybe you did not specify the correct
> > directory for ccmake. You should specify the top level directory
> > which contains a CMakeLists.txt file. For Paraview 5.2 this was a
> > directory Paraview-5.2.0 at the top level of the software tree
> after
> > unpacking. So maybe instead of ../src you need some
> ../src/Paraview-
> > 5.4(whatever version number).
> > 
> > As soon as you see the cache variables, you can change them, then
> > again choose "configure", then "generate". After that you are
> > prepared to initiate a run of "make" or whatever is necessary for
> > further installation.
> > 
> > Good Luck
> > 
> > 
> > Best Regards
> > 
> > Jutta Dreer
> > Leibniz Supercomputing Centre Munich 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Boltzmannstr. 1  Phone:  +49 89 35831 8741 
> > D-85748 Garching Fax:+49 89 35831 9700
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> > Von: ParaView [mailto:paraview-boun...@paraview.org] Im Auftrag von
> > Rob Groner
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2017 23:28
> > An: paraview@paraview.org
> > Betreff: [Paraview] Trouble building the ParaView sources
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm trying to build the paraview sources.  I downloaded the 5.4.0
> > sources, and I'm using Fedora 25 Workstation.
> > 
> > I've read through the README.md that's in the root directory, and
> > that leads me to Documentation/dev/build.md.
> > 
> > Going through these steps:
> > 1) I've verified cmake is on my system and in the PATH.
> > 2) I've verified qt is installed, and is version 4.8.7
> > 3) Compiler and Build tool:
> > 
> > Here's where issues 

Re: [Paraview] Trouble building the ParaView sources

[Rob Groner]

Hmm...nevermind.  i think I just don't have my CMAKE environment setup
correctly.  Let me tinker with that for a bit before I need more help.

Rob



On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 11:06 -0400, Rob Groner wrote:
> Thank you for the help, Jutta.
> 
> When you say "There are many of them, takes some time"...do you mean
> hours?  So far I've tried running ccmake and cmake-gui and executing
> the configure, but once it starts doing that, I see absolutely no
> indication that it is doing anything else.  Nothing prints to the
> screen, "top" doesn't show that cmake is using any CPU, and when I
> use
> cmake-gui, the little progress bar does not move.
> 
> If it's that slow of a process, than I can just leave it for a day
> and
> come back, but it seems more likely that something is wrong.
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 10:17 +, Dreer, Jutta wrote:
> > Hi Rob,
> > 
> > I did not install 5.4 so far, only 5.2. But I have a hint for the
> > last of your questions that might help:
> > 
> > When calling ccmake, the cache is always empty in the beginning.
> > The
> > first action you should initiate is to type "c" (abbreviation of
> > "configure"). This will trigger ccmake to read all CMakeLists.txt
> > files in the software tree (there are many of them, takes some
> > time).
> > These describe the installation with all its variables. After that
> > you should see all the variables.
> > 
> > If your cache is still empty, maybe you did not specify the correct
> > directory for ccmake. You should specify the top level directory
> > which contains a CMakeLists.txt file. For Paraview 5.2 this was a
> > directory Paraview-5.2.0 at the top level of the software tree
> > after
> > unpacking. So maybe instead of ../src you need some
> > ../src/Paraview-
> > 5.4(whatever version number).
> > 
> > As soon as you see the cache variables, you can change them, then
> > again choose "configure", then "generate". After that you are
> > prepared to initiate a run of "make" or whatever is necessary for
> > further installation.
> > 
> > Good Luck
> > 
> > 
> > Best Regards
> > 
> > Jutta Dreer
> > Leibniz Supercomputing Centre Munich 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Boltzmannstr. 1  Phone:  +49 89 35831 8741 
> > D-85748 Garching Fax:+49 89 35831 9700
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> > Von: ParaView [mailto:paraview-boun...@paraview.org] Im Auftrag von
> > Rob Groner
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2017 23:28
> > An: paraview@paraview.org
> > Betreff: [Paraview] Trouble building the ParaView sources
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm trying to build the paraview sources.  I downloaded the 5.4.0
> > sources, and I'm using Fedora 25 Workstation.
> > 
> > I've read through the README.md that's in the root directory, and
> > that leads me to Documentation/dev/build.md.
> > 
> > Going through these steps:
> > 1) I've verified cmake is on my system and in the PATH.
> > 2) I've verified qt is installed, and is version 4.8.7
> > 3) Compiler and Build tool:
> > 
> > Here's where issues begin.  Since I'm using Fedora/yum, the
> > packages
> > don't directly translate.
> > 
> > I've verified or installed the following packages from the list:
> > cmake
> > git
> > python-dev
> > freeglut3-dev
> > autoconf
> > libtool
> > bison
> > flex
> > ninja-build
> > 
> > But I can't seem to find these:
> > mesa-common-dev
> > mesa-utils
> > libhdf5-serial-dev
> > 
> > (I did notice that some mesa packages were installed when freeglut
> > was)
> > 
> > I continued on to see how much farther I could get, and the next
> > step
> > immediately stumped me:
> > 
> > sudo python get-pip.py
> > 
> > That returns a "no get-pip.py found" error.  I've verified no get-
> > pip.py file is in the ParaView sources (or anywhere else on the
> > system), so I'm missing something here.
> > 
> > I still continued on, and ran into another issue.  The "Run CMake"
> > step references a src and build directory.  I understand that it is
> > talking about the previous step using git to "Retrieve the source",
> > but I downloaded them as a single .tar.gz file from the website
> > instead. 
> > Looking at the git sources, they appear to be the same files and
> > structure as what is in the .tar.gz, so I just put the extracted
> > contents of the archive into a "src" dir, and create a "build" dir
> > at
> > the same level.
> > 
> > I then execute:  ccmake ../src
> > 
> > CMake does come up, but instead of seeing the 3 variables shown in
> > the README, I see just "EMPTY CACHE".
> > 
> > Any additional help or guidance would be appreciated.  Thank you.
> > 
> > Rob
> > 
> > --
> > Rob Groner
> > Software Engineer 
> > 
> > Institute for CyberScience
> > The Pennsylvania State University
> > 222E Computer Building
> > University Park, PA 16802
> > Phone: 814.867.6074
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Re: [Paraview] Trouble building the ParaView sources

[Rob Groner]

Thank you for the help, Jutta.

When you say "There are many of them, takes some time"...do you mean
hours?  So far I've tried running ccmake and cmake-gui and executing
the configure, but once it starts doing that, I see absolutely no
indication that it is doing anything else.  Nothing prints to the
screen, "top" doesn't show that cmake is using any CPU, and when I use
cmake-gui, the little progress bar does not move.

If it's that slow of a process, than I can just leave it for a day and
come back, but it seems more likely that something is wrong.

Rob


On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 10:17 +, Dreer, Jutta wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> I did not install 5.4 so far, only 5.2. But I have a hint for the
> last of your questions that might help:
> 
> When calling ccmake, the cache is always empty in the beginning. The
> first action you should initiate is to type "c" (abbreviation of
> "configure"). This will trigger ccmake to read all CMakeLists.txt
> files in the software tree (there are many of them, takes some time).
> These describe the installation with all its variables. After that
> you should see all the variables.
> 
> If your cache is still empty, maybe you did not specify the correct
> directory for ccmake. You should specify the top level directory
> which contains a CMakeLists.txt file. For Paraview 5.2 this was a
> directory Paraview-5.2.0 at the top level of the software tree after
> unpacking. So maybe instead of ../src you need some ../src/Paraview-
> 5.4(whatever version number).
> 
> As soon as you see the cache variables, you can change them, then
> again choose "configure", then "generate". After that you are
> prepared to initiate a run of "make" or whatever is necessary for
> further installation.
> 
> Good Luck
> 
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Jutta Dreer
> Leibniz Supercomputing Centre Munich 
> 
> -- 
> Boltzmannstr. 1  Phone:  +49 89 35831 8741 
> D-85748 Garching Fax:+49 89 35831 9700
> 
> 
> 
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> Von: ParaView [mailto:paraview-boun...@paraview.org] Im Auftrag von
> Rob Groner
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2017 23:28
> An: paraview@paraview.org
> Betreff: [Paraview] Trouble building the ParaView sources
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to build the paraview sources.  I downloaded the 5.4.0
> sources, and I'm using Fedora 25 Workstation.
> 
> I've read through the README.md that's in the root directory, and
> that leads me to Documentation/dev/build.md.
> 
> Going through these steps:
> 1) I've verified cmake is on my system and in the PATH.
> 2) I've verified qt is installed, and is version 4.8.7
> 3) Compiler and Build tool:
> 
> Here's where issues begin.  Since I'm using Fedora/yum, the packages
> don't directly translate.
> 
> I've verified or installed the following packages from the list:
> cmake
> git
> python-dev
> freeglut3-dev
> autoconf
> libtool
> bison
> flex
> ninja-build
> 
> But I can't seem to find these:
> mesa-common-dev
> mesa-utils
> libhdf5-serial-dev
> 
> (I did notice that some mesa packages were installed when freeglut
> was)
> 
> I continued on to see how much farther I could get, and the next step
> immediately stumped me:
> 
> sudo python get-pip.py
> 
> That returns a "no get-pip.py found" error.  I've verified no get-
> pip.py file is in the ParaView sources (or anywhere else on the
> system), so I'm missing something here.
> 
> I still continued on, and ran into another issue.  The "Run CMake"
> step references a src and build directory.  I understand that it is
> talking about the previous step using git to "Retrieve the source",
> but I downloaded them as a single .tar.gz file from the website
> instead. 
> Looking at the git sources, they appear to be the same files and
> structure as what is in the .tar.gz, so I just put the extracted
> contents of the archive into a "src" dir, and create a "build" dir at
> the same level.
> 
> I then execute:  ccmake ../src
> 
> CMake does come up, but instead of seeing the 3 variables shown in
> the README, I see just "EMPTY CACHE".
> 
> Any additional help or guidance would be appreciated.  Thank you.
> 
> Rob
> 
> --
> Rob Groner
> Software Engineer 
> 
> Institute for CyberScience
> The Pennsylvania State University
> 222E Computer Building
> University Park, PA 16802
> Phone: 814.867.6074
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Re: [Paraview] Trouble building the ParaView sources

[Rob Groner]

On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 09:16 -0400, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> > > I then execute:  ccmake ../src
> > > 
> > > CMake does come up, but instead of seeing the 3 variables shown
> > > in the
> > > README, I see just "EMPTY CACHE".
> 
> 
> Since you have installed Ninja, do this.
> 
> > ccmake -G Ninja ../src
> 
> Next hit "c" to configure. That will process cmake configuration
> files
> in ParaView and then provide you with options that you can set. Any
> time you change options, hit "c" to configure again. Once done, you
> can hit "g" to generate the build files. Then do
> 
> > ninja-build


Ok, thank you.  I hit 'c' and it is doing things now ("Configuring,
please wait...").  I also had to set the CXX environment variable to
the path of ccmake.

I'll hit 'g' and then ninja-build after that to see what happens.

Thank you for the help so far!

Rob


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Re: [Paraview] Trouble building the ParaView sources

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

>> I then execute:  ccmake ../src
>>
>> CMake does come up, but instead of seeing the 3 variables shown in the
>> README, I see just "EMPTY CACHE".


Since you have installed Ninja, do this.

> ccmake -G Ninja ../src

Next hit "c" to configure. That will process cmake configuration files
in ParaView and then provide you with options that you can set. Any
time you change options, hit "c" to configure again. Once done, you
can hit "g" to generate the build files. Then do

> ninja-build
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Re: [Paraview] Trouble building the ParaView sources

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Rob Groner  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to build the paraview sources.  I downloaded the 5.4.0
> sources, and I'm using Fedora 25 Workstation.
>
> I've read through the README.md that's in the root directory, and that
> leads me to Documentation/dev/build.md.
>
> Going through these steps:
> 1) I've verified cmake is on my system and in the PATH.
> 2) I've verified qt is installed, and is version 4.8.7
> 3) Compiler and Build tool:
>
> Here's where issues begin.  Since I'm using Fedora/yum, the packages
> don't directly translate.
>
> I've verified or installed the following packages from the list:
> cmake
> git
> python-dev
> freeglut3-dev
> autoconf
> libtool
> bison
> flex
> ninja-build
>
> But I can't seem to find these:
> mesa-common-dev
> mesa-utils
> libhdf5-serial-dev
>
> (I did notice that some mesa packages were installed when freeglut was)
>
> I continued on to see how much farther I could get, and the next step
> immediately stumped me:
>
> sudo python get-pip.py
>
> That returns a "no get-pip.py found" error.  I've verified no get-
> pip.py file is in the ParaView sources (or anywhere else on the
> system), so I'm missing something here.
>
> I still continued on, and ran into another issue.  The "Run CMake" step
> references a src and build directory.  I understand that it is talking
> about the previous step using git to "Retrieve the source", but I
> downloaded them as a single .tar.gz file from the website instead.
> Looking at the git sources, they appear to be the same files and
> structure as what is in the .tar.gz, so I just put the extracted
> contents of the archive into a "src" dir, and create a "build" dir at
> the same level.
>
> I then execute:  ccmake ../src
>
> CMake does come up, but instead of seeing the 3 variables shown in the
> README, I see just "EMPTY CACHE".
>
> Any additional help or guidance would be appreciated.  Thank you.
>
> Rob
>
> --
> Rob Groner
> Software Engineer
>
> Institute for CyberScience
> The Pennsylvania State University
> 222E Computer Building
> University Park, PA 16802
> Phone: 814.867.6074
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