[saturn_53]

Greetings:

I am following the guidelines on openfoamwiki, and have made two attempts at installing OpenFOAM 2.4.0/Paraview 4.1.0.

OpenFOAM installs. ParaView does not get setup correctly and paraFoam --help, returns:

  paraFoam --help
  
  FATAL ERROR: ParaView reader module libraries do not exist
  
  Please build the reader module before continuing:
  cd $FOAM_UTILITIES/postProcessing/graphics/PV4Readers
  ./Allwclean
  ./Allwmake

OS is a full GNOME Desktop installation; and has been updated (Graphics card is NVIDIA and so far the nouveau driver works fine). Just a minor observation here that CentOS 7.2 does not know " libGLU-devel ", but does know " mesa-libGLU-devel ", which I installed. (" mesa-libGLU " is system installed)

  uname -a
  Linux euler 3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 12 11:03:55 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

After the " ./Allwmake > log.make 2>&1 ", and searching for errors, I get:

  ERROR: ParaView not found in /home/UserName/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-2.4.0/platforms/linux64Gcc/ParaView-4.1.0

Same error when running the Allwmake again.

After some search, I disabled the CUDA support in ParaView-4.1.0/Plugins/SciberQuestToolKit/SciberQuest/CMakeLists.txt,

  if (CUDA_FOUND AND SQTK_CUDA)  ==>  if (OFF AND SQTK_CUDA)
  if (SQTK_CUDA AND CUDA_FOUND)  ==>  if (SQTK_CUDA AND OFF)

And re-compiled, but no change.

The gzip'ed version of the " log.make " file is about 760 KB, which is over the limit of the file attachment size, so I am attaching the error lines.

Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[saturn_53]

Greetings:

I am happy to report that my problem has been fixed. This was caused by the initial full GNOME Desktop installation that included the “Legacy X Windows System Compatibility” and perhaps the “Compatibility Libraries”.

Thanks to this post which points to this bug report.

The file “ vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx “ is located in this folder:

  /home/UserName/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-2.4.0/ParaView-4.1.0/VTK/Rendering/OpenGL/

Before you edit it, copy it to a safe place like " /home/UserName/Backup/ " and make a note of its location. This way you can always restore it if needed.

  cp –a vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx /home/UserName/Backup/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx_original

In this file, line # 30 is:

  //#define GLX_GLXEXT_LEGACY

Uncomment it by deleting the preceding two forward slashes

  #define GLX_GLXEXT_LEGACY     

Save the file and resume your installation by picking up from step 13-2 as indicated by openfoamwiki, which are:

  ./makeParaView4 -qmake $(which qmake-qt4) -mpi -python > log.makePV 2>&1
  
  cd $FOAM_UTILITIES/postProcessing/graphics/PV4Readers
  wmSET $FOAM_SETTINGS
  ./Allwclean
  ./Allwmake

It works beautifully and both " paraFoam " and " paraview " commands work as expected.

Thank you all.