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Building tomviz

The tomviz project reuses a number of components from Python, VTK, and ParaView, so these dependencies will need to be compiled first in order to build tomviz. There is a superbuild that automates most of this when building binaries. We recommend using these binaries where available if you wish to test, and nightly binaries are made available in addition to releases.

If you wish to develop tomviz, the following sequence of commands will build a suitable ParaView, and a tomviz that uses the ParaView just compiled. You need to use your package manager/installers/upstream build instructions to install out dependencies. CMake will search for these, and the cmake-gui can be used to point to them if they are not found automatically.

Dependencies

  • Qt 4.8
  • CMake 3.1 (2.8.8 minimum)
  • Python 2.7
  • NumPy 1.8
  • Git 2.1
  • C++ compiler

Initial Build

You will need the development headers, so please ensure these are installed (several distros use -dev packages not installed with the main package). If you are in a directory you would like to place the source and builds with all prerequisites installed:

git clone --recursive git://github.com/kitware/paraview.git
git clone git://github.com/openchemistry/tomviz.git
mkdir paraview-build
cd paraview-build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=RelWithDebInfo \
  -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_CATALYST:BOOL=OFF -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON:BOOL=ON \
  -DVTK_RENDERING_BACKEND:STRING=OpenGL2 -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_WEB:BOOL=OFF \
  ../paraview
cmake --build .

This will clone all source code needed, configure and build a minimal ParaView, the Ninja generator is recommended to build faster, but optional, on Windows you will need to specify the correct generator for the installed compiler. Now, to build tomviz:

cd ..
mkdir tomviz-build
cd tomviz-build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=RelWithDebInfo \
  -DParaView_DIR:PATH=../paraview-build ../tomviz
cmake --build .

Running tomviz

You should be able to simply execute the binary from the build tree, on Windows this is a little more difficult as you must ensure all DLLs are in the same directory or in your 'PATH' environment variable.

./bin/tomviz

Updating Source and Rebuilding

Once this completes you will have a binary in the 'bin' directory of your build tree. It is possible to update the ParaView and/or tomviz source directories and rebuild the binaries incrementally. The following would update both source trees and rebuild the latest version of each:

cd ../paraview
git pull && git submodule update
cd ../paraview-build
cmake --build .
cd ../tomviz
git pull
cd ../tomviz-build
cmake --build .