[kaszt]

I'm trying to build and install OpenFOAM from the source for Linux provided here http://openfoam.com/download/install-source.php. I'm following the build guide provided here http://openfoam.com/code/build-guide.php, but I am having issues with an error that occurs when I try to compile ParaView with the following commands:

cd $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR 
./makeParaView

The installation fails with the following message (I've clipped everything before the error in the interest of sanity...)

CMake Error at CMake/ParaViewQt.cmake:65 (find_package):
  Could not find a configuration file for package "Qt5" that is compatible
  with requested version "5.6".

  The following configuration files were considered but not accepted:

    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Qt5/Qt5Config.cmake, version: 5.5.1
    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Qt5/Qt5Config.cmake, version: 5.5.1

Call Stack (most recent call first):
  Qt/Widgets/CMakeLists.txt:203 (pv_find_package_qt)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/fdrc/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1706/build/linux64Gcc/ParaView-5.4.0/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "/home/fdrc/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1706/build/linux64Gcc/ParaView-5.4.0/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".

I checked my QT5 build with QT creator, and the newest installation is Qt 5.6.1 (not Qt 5.5.1), but the path to Qt 5.6.1 is different. The path to Qt 5.6.1. is

/home/fdrc/Qt5.6.1/5.6/gcc_64/bin/qmake

whereas the path to Qt 5.5.1. is

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qmake

I suspect that this is related to my issue, but I am not sure. I had tried to solve my problem following a similar solution posted here https://askubuntu.com/questions/9416...view-qt5-error, but upon trying to compile ParaView I received the same error as above.

I am stumped as to how to solve this problem, and any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!

[stasserg]

Try to use

./makeParaView -qmake /home/fdrc/Qt5.6.1/5.6/gcc_64/bin/qmake Qt5_DIR=/home/fdrc/Qt5.6.1/5.6/gcc_64/lib/Qt5

Hope it helps

[kaszt]

Thank you for your message; unfortunately I received the following error after running that command:

[ 90%] Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libvtkpqCore-pv5.4.so
[ 90%] Built target pqCore
Makefile:127: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
Command exited with non-zero status 2
6016.25user 506.62system 14:22.40elapsed 756%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1544348maxresident)k
64inputs+2424776outputs (0major+183168270minor)pagefaults 0swaps

Would you happen to have information on this error?

[wyldckat]

Quick answer: There was a recent bug report about this here: https://bugs.openfoam.org/view.php?id=2673

The main problem was that using the pre-built version of Qt5 for Linux has an incompatible protobuf static library built into it, that doesn't work with ParaView 5.4.

Details on how to build with an existing pre-built installation of Qt5 are also on that report.

[kaszt]

Thank you so much for your help - after reading the report I uninstalled Qt5 and used

export QT_SELECT=qt4

before running

./makeParaView

and doing so resulted in a successful installation. Thank you so much for the information and solution!