[MOAB-dev] building vtkMoabReader

[Vijay S. Mahadevan]

Jacob,

My vtkMoabReader works fine (v4.8.0) with Paraview v4.0.1. But I
assume v4.3.1 might have some changes that could cause a breakage
here.

Can you make sure that:
MOAB_INCLUDE_DIRS := PATH_TO_MOAB_INSTALLATION/include
MOAB_LIBRARY := PATH_TO_MOAB_INSTALLATION/lib/libMOAB.so
ParaView_DIR := PATH_TO_PARAVIEW_INSTALLATION/lib/cmake/paraview-*

The ParaView_DIR needs to point to the CMake file location and not at
the installation directory. If these are already your settings, let us
know and we'll check with Paraview v4.3.1. We haven't tested with the
latest Paraview versions in some time and if things have changed, we
can certainly push a fix.

Vijay

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Hochhalter, Jacob Dean (LARC-D309)
<jacob.d.hochhalter at nasa.gov> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to build the vtkMoabReader, and am running into an issue that I am hoping someone can shed some light on.  I have not been able to find any build instructions for this tool in the version of moab that I downloaded, 4.8.0, so I could be missing something simple.  I did find some for an older version, and tried to mimic those.
>
> Here is an outline of my steps:
>
> 1)  Download/build Paraview v4.3.1 from source in paraview_build_dir with python and hdf5 enabled, but everything else left as defaults
> 2)  Download moab-4.8.0 and configure using './configure --prefix=/opt/moab/moab-4.8.0/ --enable-shared --enable-vtkMOABReader --with-vtk=paraview_build_dir --with-vtk-lib-suffix=-pv4.3'  This build appears to go fine, and I end up with executables and libs in the install dir.  However, there is nothing for the vtkMoabReader installed.
> 3)  cd to tools/vtkMOABReader and run ccmake, which (after defining moab and paraview dirs) returns an error that
>
>     "
>      CMake Error at
>      ParaView-v4.3.1-source/CMake/ParaViewPlugins.cmake:1080
>      (ADD_LIBRARY):
>        Cannot find source file:
>
>          ./vtkMoabReader.cxx
>
>        Tried extensions .c .C .c++ .cc .cpp .cxx .m .M .mm .h .hh .h++ .hm .hpp .hxx .in .txx
>      Call Stack (most recent call first):
>        CMakeLists.txt:35 (add_paraview_plugin)
>
>     "
>
>     Note:  There is a file under vtkMOABReader called vtkMoabReaderPlugin_Plugin.cxx, but not vtkMoabReader.cxx.  Also, the same thing occurred when I tried moab v4.7.
> 4) out of curiosity, I renamed the generated vtkMoabReaderPlugin_Plugin.cxx to  vtkMoabReader.cxx, which gets me past that error, but then ccmake returns another error:  missing paraview include file, CellSets.h.  However, there is no include file named CellSets.h inside this version of paraview; the closest is Cell.h.
>
> Any pointers regarding things I might be missing, or known working configurations would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
> - Jake