[Paraview] which VTK

Dominik Szczerba domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch
Tue Dec 13 16:04:26 EST 2005


Thanks a lot for all your hints.
regards,
Dominik

Amy Squillacote wrote:
> I assume you mean using shared instead of static libraries in ParaView. 
> Yes, this is possible. When you run CMake, set BUILD_SHARED_LIBS to ON.
> 
> - Amy
> 
> At 12:02 PM 12/13/2005, Dominik Szczerba wrote:
> 
>> So the conclusions would be to use Paraview's VTK for more recent if 
>> somewhat less stable version?
>>
>> I see the problem in maintaining two versions. And I dont think I am 
>> going to change CMakeLists.txt to use an older external VTK version. 
>> But is it at least easilly possible to link paraview dynamically 
>> against the VTK? I get huge binary output files...
>>
>> regards,
>> Dominik
>>
>> Berk Geveci wrote:
>>
>>> CVS ParaView uses CVS VTK. When ParaView is branched for a release, 
>>> VTK is
>>> also branched. We used to support using an external VTK but we had 
>>> too many
>>> complaints  that turned out to be mismatching versions of VTK and 
>>> ParaView.
>>> Because of this, we stopped supporting using an external VTK. You 
>>> have to
>>> change ParaView CMakeLists.txt files in order to allow for the use of an
>>> external VTK and I don't think it's straightforward to do. I keep 
>>> separate
>>> builds of VTK and ParaView. If you are using VTK only from C++, you 
>>> can use
>>> the VTK built by ParaView instead of keeping a separate VTK.
>>> -Berk
>>>
>>> On 12/13/05, Dominik Szczerba <domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I once have asked this question, but didint get an answer. I didnt
>>>> conclude much from the Wiki pages either: what is the reason Paraview
>>>> uses its own VTK version?
>>>>
>>>> 1) Which version is it (CVS?) and what/why modifications are made to 
>>>> it?
>>>>
>>>> 2) I use both VTK (from C/C++) and Paraview (stand-alone) and I see
>>>> little sense in compiling VTK twice. If the Paraview's versions is
>>>> newer, which one is it / what are the differences to the official
>>>> version? If the official VTK version is OK to use to compile Paraview,
>>>> how can I disable redundant compilation and reuse VTK available on my
>>>> system?
>>>>
>>>> thank you and regards,
>>>> Dominik
>>>>
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>>>> Dominik Szczerba, Dr.
>>>> Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
>>>> http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi
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>>>
>>
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>> Dominik Szczerba, Dr.
>> Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
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