Editing Software Development Platforms (section)

===Paraview===

Currently we are using ParaView 3.8.0 .  Ubuntu 10.04 provides paraview 3.4.0, so we will usually build paraview from source.

First make sure that you have all the required packages for building paraview:

 sudo apt-get build-dep paraview

The source code can be downloaded from http://paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html .

Unpack ParaView:

 tar xvzf Paraview-3.8.0.tar.gz
 cd ParaView-3.8.0
 mkdir build
 cd build
 cmake-gui ..         # or else 'ccmake ..'

Now you can configure the build.  The exact configuration depends on the purpose for which you are building ParaView.  See [[ParaView_Extensions#Building_ParaView_Extensions]] .

Here are the cmake options that might be typical for Linux and that are different than the default:

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
|-
! option
! Setting
|- valign="top"
| BUILD_SHARED_LIBS ||               ON                                           
|- valign="top"
| CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX ||            /opt/paraview-3.8.0                          
|- valign="top"
| PARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI ||           ON                                           
|- valign="top"
| PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON ||          ON                                           
|- valign="top"
| PARAVIEW_USE_MPI ||                ON                                           
|}

If you want to build using MPI (MPI is a library for parallel processing), you'll have to install OpenMPI first.  See http://bonewiki.ucalgary.ca/index.php/Development_for_Linux#MPI . 

When happy with your options (see the notes below), press 'C' for configure and then 'G' for generate.  Then proceed with

 make -j 4      # -j 4 means use 4 parallel processes for compiling
 sudo make install