CRAY XC40 Graphic Environment

Building Paraview

To build ParaView on hww machines first of all download the source package of the version to be build from http://www.paraview.org/download and extract it to your home directory.

The second step would be to *create an empty build directory outside the source directory* since an out of source build is the recomended way to compile ParaView.

To build ParaView certain recent dependencies have to be satisfied. For an OpenGL build these are:

• Autotools
• Cmake
• Qt 4

If you want to build a ParaView server suitable for the Hornet compute nodes als recent versions of

• LLVM with CLang
• libclc and
• Mesa

have to be available.

All these dependencies are installed on Hornet. Currently the following versions are available:

• m4-1.4.17
• autoconf-2.69
• automake-1.14
• libtool-2.4.2
• pkg-config-0.28
• llvm-3.4.2
• libclc-0.1.5
• Mesa-10.2.2
• Qt-4.8.6
• Cmake-3.0.2

To modify your environment in a way that these dependencies are usable simply source the following bash-script.

setenv-pv.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Setup modules #######################################
module load tools/autotools
module load tools/cmake
module unload PrgEnv-cray 
module load PrgEnv-gnu
module swap gcc/4.9.1 gcc/4.8.1
#
# LLVM ###############################################
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/sw/hornet/hlrs/tools/paraview/4.1.0/aux/llvm/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PATH=/sw/hornet/hlrs/tools/paraview/4.1.0/aux/llvm/bin:$PATH
#
# MESA ###############################################
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/sw/hornet/hlrs/tools/paraview/4.1.0/aux/mesa/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
#
# QT #################################################
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/sw/hornet/hlrs/tools/paraview/4.1.0/aux/qt/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PATH=/sw/hornet/hlrs/tools/paraview/4.1.0/aux/qt/bin:$PATH
#

This means copying the statements above to a file named setenv-pv.sh and executing

source setenv-pv.sh

will make your environment ready to build ParaView.