[OpenFOAM.com] Error ./makeParaview, VTK_QT_VERSION is '5' OF1806

TU_Hiwi · July 2, 2018, 17:46

Hey guys,

i got a problem with Paraview. I built OF v1806 from source using this guide and everything seemed to workout just fine, except ./makeParaview stops compiling with

Code:

CMake Error at VTK/CMake/vtkQt.cmake:6 (message):
  Expected value for VTK_QT_VERSION is '5'
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  VTK/GUISupport/Qt/CMakeLists.txt:1 (include)

.

"foamInstallationTest" gave me a go so i run the given example pitzDaily. If i run the command "paraFoam" i only get is this:

Code:

ERROR: ParaView reader module library (PVFoamReader) does not exist
Please build the reader module before continuing:

    cd $WM_PROJECT_DIR/applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/PVReaders
    ./Allwclean
    ./Allwmake

Using the native VTK/OpenFOAM reader instead
Created temporary 'pitzDaily.foam'
/home/hgl/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v1806/bin/paraFoam: 319: /home/hgl/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v1806/bin/paraFoam: paraview: not found

i ran all the stated commands but the errors still occur. Any ideas how to fix this?

greetings

olesen · July 3, 2018, 10:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by TU_Hiwi

Hey guys,

i got a problem with Paraview. I built OF v1806 from source using this guide and everything seemed to workout just fine, except ./makeParaview stops compiling with

Code:

CMake Error at VTK/CMake/vtkQt.cmake:6 (message):
  Expected value for VTK_QT_VERSION is '5'
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  VTK/GUISupport/Qt/CMakeLists.txt:1 (include)

.

"foamInstallationTest" gave me a go so i run the given example pitzDaily. If i run the command "paraFoam" i only get is this:

Code:

ERROR: ParaView reader module library (PVFoamReader) does not exist
Please build the reader module before continuing:

    cd $WM_PROJECT_DIR/applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/PVReaders
    ./Allwclean
    ./Allwmake

Using the native VTK/OpenFOAM reader instead
Created temporary 'pitzDaily.foam'
/home/hgl/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v1806/bin/paraFoam: 319: /home/hgl/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v1806/bin/paraFoam: paraview: not found

i ran all the stated commands but the errors still occur. Any ideas how to fix this?

greetings

You will need to read a bit further on the same page and see where it mentions the file

$WM_PROJECT_DIR/ThirdParty-v1806/BUILD.md

which should actually be $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/ThirdParty-v1806/BUILD.md

(this file https://develop.openfoam.com/Develop...aster/BUILD.md)

There are many more build details there, where it will also mention that you need Qt5 for ParaView-5.5.x and some more comments. It is obviously not completely exhaustive, but should help.

LuckyTran · July 3, 2018, 12:06

Probably your paraView never compiled (and the error msg points at a missing Qt installation). A dummy way to check is to look in the platform directory and see if these directories are there. I.e. go to /ThirdParty-v1806/platforms/linuxsomething/ and make sure there is ParaView-5.5.x and also check for qt-#.#.#

TU_Hiwi · July 4, 2018, 11:30

Okay so I installed Qt 5.11.0 and Cmake 3.10.3 and now the error occurs at 91% of the installation. I am using ./makeParaView -qt-5.11.0 to build, otherwise i still get the same error as state in the first post. The error i am now getting is as follows

Code:

 Scanning dependencies of target pqComponents
[ 91%] Building CXX object Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/pqAboutDialog.cxx.o
[ 91%] Building CXX object Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/pqActionGroupInterface.cxx.o
[ 91%] Building CXX object Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/pqAnimatablePropertiesComboBox.cxx.o
[ 91%] Building CXX object Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/pqActiveObjects.cxx.o
[ 91%] Building CXX object Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/pqAnimatableProxyComboBox.cxx.o
[ 91%] Building CXX object Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/pqAnimationManager.cxx.o
[ 91%] Building CXX object Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/pqAnimationViewWidget.cxx.o
[ 91%] Building CXX object Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/pqArrayListDomain.cxx.o
[ 91%] Building CXX object Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/pqArrayStatusPropertyWidget.cxx.o
[ 91%] Building CXX object Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/pqCalculatorWidget.cxx.o
[ 91%] Building CXX object Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/pqCameraDialog.cxx.o
[ 91%] Building CXX object Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/pqCameraKeyFrameWidget.cxx.o
[ 91%] Building CXX object Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/pqChangeInputDialog.cxx.o
[ 91%] Building CXX object Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/pqCollaborationPanel.cxx.o
/home/hgl/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1806/ParaView-v5.5.2/Qt/Components/pqChangeInputDialog.cxx: In constructor ‘pqChangeInputDialog::pqChangeInputDialog(vtkSMProxy*, QWidget*)’:
/home/hgl/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1806/ParaView-v5.5.2/Qt/Components/pqChangeInputDialog.cxx:81:45: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘class QHeaderView’
   this->Internals->pipelineView->getHeader()->hide();
                                             ^~
In file included from /home/hgl/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1806/build/linux64Gcc/ParaView-5.5.2/Qt/Components/ui_pqChangeInputDialog.h:20:0,
                 from /home/hgl/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1806/ParaView-v5.5.2/Qt/Components/pqChangeInputDialog.cxx:33:
/home/hgl/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1806/ParaView-v5.5.2/Qt/Widgets/pqFlatTreeView.h:53:7: note: forward declaration of ‘class QHeaderView’
 class QHeaderView;
       ^~~~~~~~~~~
/home/hgl/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1806/ParaView-v5.5.2/Qt/Components/pqChangeInputDialog.cxx:83:45: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘class QHeaderView’
   this->Internals->pipelineView->getHeader()->hideSection(1);
                                             ^~
In file included from /home/hgl/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1806/build/linux64Gcc/ParaView-5.5.2/Qt/Components/ui_pqChangeInputDialog.h:20:0,
                 from /home/hgl/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1806/ParaView-v5.5.2/Qt/Components/pqChangeInputDialog.cxx:33:
/home/hgl/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1806/ParaView-v5.5.2/Qt/Widgets/pqFlatTreeView.h:53:7: note: forward declaration of ‘class QHeaderView’
 class QHeaderView;
       ^~~~~~~~~~~
[ 91%] Building CXX object Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/pqColorChooserButtonWithPalettes.cxx.o
Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/build.make:1476: recipe for target 'Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/pqChangeInputDialog.cxx.o' failed
make[2]: *** [Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/pqChangeInputDialog.cxx.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:17326: recipe for target 'Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [Qt/Components/CMakeFiles/pqComponents.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:151: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
Command exited with non-zero status 2
11958.89user 1084.70system 55:35.82elapsed 391%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1687244maxresident)k
11704inputs+2974136outputs (0major+174762128minor)pagefaults 0swaps

Any Ideas what to do?

olesen · July 5, 2018, 08:54

Perhaps try with qt-5.9.3 - it is an LTS version that I believe the ParaView developers are using. Maybe something odd changed with qt-5.11, you never really know.

TU_Hiwi · July 5, 2018, 17:16

okay so i now could install paraview using qt 5.9.5, which should also be LTS. (by the way, is there a difference between "qt-everywhere-src-VER" and "qt-everywhere-opensource-src-VER"?)
installing paraview worked just fine, but if i execute paraFoam the "missing PVFoamReader"-error pops up. Paraview opens up anyway but the fonts (and so any text) is missing. Not suitable for working, i would like to solve that

executing the advised commands (cd $WM_PROJECT_DIR/applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/PVReaders
./Allwclean
./Allwmake) works until some error during ./Allwmake state below.

Code:

CMake Error at /home/hgl/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1806/platforms/linux64Gcc/ParaView-5.5.2/lib/cmake/paraview-5.5/ParaViewQt.cmake:71 (find_package):
  By not providing "FindQt5.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
  asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5", but
  CMake did not find one.

  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5" (requested
  version 5.6) with any of the following names:

    Qt5Config.cmake
    qt5-config.cmake

Any Ideas what went wrong and how to solve?

TU_Hiwi · July 5, 2018, 17:45

okay i downloaded the fonts from https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/ and extracted them into the directory. The

Code:

ERROR: ParaView reader module library (PVFoamReader) does not exist
Please build the reader module before continuing:

    cd $WM_PROJECT_DIR/applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/PVReaders
    ./Allwclean
    ./Allwmake

Using the native VTK/OpenFOAM reader instead

still orrcurs. Do I need the PVFoamReader?

Thanks in advance.

arash1 · July 6, 2018, 06:24

I myself struggle with building paraView which fails at 14% of installation. I wonder why such a obvious thing should be that problematic...

[Moderator note: Below is the post that was alone in another thread regarding this same issue.]

Dear all,

I was trying to build paraView on Ubuntu 16.04 but got the following error:
.
.
.

[ 14%] Linking CXX shared library ../../../lib/libvtkCommonCore-pv5.5.so
[ 14%] Built target vtkCommonCore
Makefile:149: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
Command exited with non-zero status 2
1225.34user 147.56system 11:48.32elapsed 193%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1308812maxresident)k
412216inputs+495472outputs (1011major+17784156minor)pagefaults 0swaps

---
I followed the steps as instructed in BUILD.md.
First I built Qt by running ./makeQt 5.9.3 and then ./makeParaView -qt-5.9.3 5.5.2

Any help is appreciated.

TU_Hiwi · July 6, 2018, 06:28

have you build cmake and Qt?

arash1 · July 6, 2018, 07:30

I suppose!
Here's what I did:

1. downloading qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.9.3 and unpacking it in the thirdparty directory
2. bulding qt (./makeQt 5.9.3)
3. downloading cmake-3.5.2 and unpacking in the thirdparty directory
4. building cmake (./makeCmake cmake-3.5.2)
5. building paraView (./makeParaView -qt-5.9.3 5.5.2)

=>
.
.
.

Code:

[ 14%] Linking CXX shared library ../../../lib/libvtkCommonCore-pv5.5.so
[ 14%] Built target vtkCommonCore
Makefile:149: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
Command exited with non-zero status 2
1174.29user 135.59system 11:30.02elapsed 189%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1309248maxresident)k
542560inputs+495472outputs (1455major+17784277minor)pagefaults 0swaps

matejfor · July 9, 2018, 10:38

Hi Arash,

what system are you compiling on?
The qt version is system version (if so, which version) or you have installed 5.9.3 (this is the one you want really to compile). and which version of cmake you have?

My experience with compilation is, if the system versions of the dev libs are old, I follow the BUILD.md and things starts to work. You should also inspect the log from the paraview compilation. It's hard to give specific advise without detailed information.

arash1 · July 9, 2018, 16:15

Thanks Matej for your suggestion. The OS was Ubuntu 16 - 32bit and you are right I also think the error could be because of the platform. I also had it run under VM which could also cause instability. Anyway I switched to OF 5.0 and Ubuntu 18 (64bit) and it works fine.

matejfor · July 9, 2018, 16:54

well if you do not need all the perks of 1806 it is a way how to go but not really a solution. Which version of paraview is used in version 5? Is it the 5.5 or 5.4 or other?

Especially on Ubuntu 64bit there is no problem to compile openfoam and paraview. You just have to follow all the pre-requisites. I can imagine you have to be careful with 32bit version, but why you need 32 bits?

On virtual machines, the trouble is typically the inconsistency of OpenGL which is not accessing the OpenGL of your graphics but is using software rendering only. Then this little environmental variable settings might help (this is more as a reference to other users):

>> export MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.2

which will make system pretend the 3.2 GL version to make you paraview started correctly.

Happy foaming

arash1 · July 9, 2018, 17:46

Many thanks. I learned from your comment.
Unfortunately, I erased everything after it didn't work, so I am not sure about the versions. It was the latest version from openfoam.com (OF V1806) though. As you said, this experience may be helpful to someone.

matejfor · July 9, 2018, 18:00

Hi,

I was asking about the Paraview version of OpenFOAM-v5. And it is Paraview 5.4
Which explains many things. Paraview 5.4 and 5.5.2 compilations are different.
For example the 5.5.2 insist on GL 2, it needs to be compiled with qt5 and few other differences. But it is worth it. Anyways, message for others, or for you, if you want to try over the weekend: OpenFOAM 1806 and paraview 5.5.2 compiles smoothly on Ubuntu 64 bits. And the extra modelling capabilities of 1806 and Catalyst from Paraview are worth the try.

matejfor · July 9, 2018, 18:03

Hi Lukas,
your error message regarding the Qt5 missing links to files instructs you quite clearly what to do: you have to set env. variable Qt5_DIR to point to your Qt5 libs place. E.g:

export Qt5_DIR=$WM_THIRDPARTY_DIR/platforms/linux64Gcc/lib/cmake/Qt5

it was in my case, as I was compiling the qt5 libs in Thirdparty dir.

hope this helps

TU_Hiwi · July 11, 2018, 17:27

Hey matjefor,

thanks for this hint. So i searched and found the missing files and executed this command:

Code:

export Qt5_DIR=$WM_THIRDPARTY_DIR/platforms/linux64Gcc/qt-5.9.5/lib/cmake/Qt5

. Hiting ./Allwclean and ./Allwmake the same error still occurs. Any Idea what i did wrong?

matejfor · July 12, 2018, 04:06

And if you

ls $Qt5_DIR

it will list the *.cmake files mentioned in the compilation error message?
If not the path is wrong and then try to search in platforms for the location
of these files.
Was the compilation of qt5 smooth? No errors ?

I did not run into this problem as it worked for me, so I do not know where else it could be.

matej

Quote:

Originally Posted by TU_Hiwi

Hey matjefor,

thanks for this hint. So i searched and found the missing files and executed this command:

Code:

export Qt5_DIR=$WM_THIRDPARTY_DIR/platforms/linux64Gcc/qt-5.9.5/lib/cmake/Qt5

. Hiting ./Allwclean and ./Allwmake the same error still occurs. Any Idea what i did wrong?

olesen · July 18, 2018, 13:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by TU_Hiwi

Hey matjefor,

thanks for this hint. So i searched and found the missing files and executed this command:

Code:

export Qt5_DIR=$WM_THIRDPARTY_DIR/platforms/linux64Gcc/qt-5.9.5/lib/cmake/Qt5

. Hiting ./Allwclean and ./Allwmake the same error still occurs. Any Idea what i did wrong?

I don't know if this is related, but did you try instead to adjust the ParaView_QT value inside of the etc/config.sh/paraview file? (and refresh your environment).

This should set both the Qt_DIR and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

BTW: you do not need to waste time with an Allwclean in between. Just make sure that you have activated your new settings before building the second (or third) time.

/mark

calim_cfd · August 7, 2018, 09:31

Hi, foamers!

It's been a while since i last posted in these forums. Anyway i struggled with the ThirdyParty installation within openSUSE and i thought i could share my solution here.

The problem appears when we try to:

Code:

./Allwmake

inside the $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR

Basically i got qt and vtk errors. They don't come with the thirdparty tar file. I had to download both:

Qt-5.9.3 (qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.9.3.tar.xz) @ https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.9/5.9.3/single/
VTK 8.1.1 (VTK-8.1.1.tar.gz) @ https://www.vtk.org/download/

I unpacked both to $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR

then i ran :

Code:

./makeQt 5.9.3

and installed it

Now, i don't recall if i tried to run

Code:

 ./makeVTK 8.1.1

and it didn't work. You could try this before doing what i did. I'm sorry but i tried so many things that i can't be precise right now.

if it doens't work, you can do what i did: i jumped into the script:

Code:

gedit makeVTK

and changed the line:

Code:

VTK_VERSION="$vtk_version"

to

Code:

VTK_VERSION=8.1.1

then i ran the script

Code:

./makeVTK

next, i don't know whether it made any difference, but i went to

https://software.opensuse.org/package/Mesa and installed the Mesa package too. I did it with the automatic install which comes from the source mirror.
Finally i was able to type:

Code:

./makeParaview

and compile it.

Wish this was as ez as ubuntu's.

Anyway, hope this helps some1

l8r!

July 2, 2018, 17:46	Error ./makeParaview, VTK_QT_VERSION is '5' OF1806	#1
TU_Hiwi New Member Lukas Join Date: Jul 2018 Posts: 20 Rep Power: 8	Hey guys, i got a problem with Paraview. I built OF v1806 from source using this guide and everything seemed to workout just fine, except ./makeParaview stops compiling with Code: CMake Error at VTK/CMake/vtkQt.cmake:6 (message): Expected value for VTK_QT_VERSION is '5' Call Stack (most recent call first): VTK/GUISupport/Qt/CMakeLists.txt:1 (include) . "foamInstallationTest" gave me a go so i run the given example pitzDaily. If i run the command "paraFoam" i only get is this: Code: ERROR: ParaView reader module library (PVFoamReader) does not exist Please build the reader module before continuing: cd $WM_PROJECT_DIR/applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/PVReaders ./Allwclean ./Allwmake Using the native VTK/OpenFOAM reader instead Created temporary 'pitzDaily.foam' /home/hgl/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v1806/bin/paraFoam: 319: /home/hgl/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v1806/bin/paraFoam: paraview: not found i ran all the stated commands but the errors still occur. Any ideas how to fix this? greetings lourencosm and Gerhard like this.

July 5, 2018, 17:16		#6
TU_Hiwi New Member Lukas Join Date: Jul 2018 Posts: 20 Rep Power: 8	okay so i now could install paraview using qt 5.9.5, which should also be LTS. (by the way, is there a difference between "qt-everywhere-src-VER" and "qt-everywhere-opensource-src-VER"?) installing paraview worked just fine, but if i execute paraFoam the "missing PVFoamReader"-error pops up. Paraview opens up anyway but the fonts (and so any text) is missing. Not suitable for working, i would like to solve that executing the advised commands (cd $WM_PROJECT_DIR/applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/PVReaders ./Allwclean ./Allwmake) works until some error during ./Allwmake state below. Code: CMake Error at /home/hgl/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1806/platforms/linux64Gcc/ParaView-5.5.2/lib/cmake/paraview-5.5/ParaViewQt.cmake:71 (find_package): By not providing "FindQt5.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5", but CMake did not find one. Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5" (requested version 5.6) with any of the following names: Qt5Config.cmake qt5-config.cmake Any Ideas what went wrong and how to solve? lourencosm and tonnykz like this.

July 5, 2018, 17:45		#7
TU_Hiwi New Member Lukas Join Date: Jul 2018 Posts: 20 Rep Power: 8	okay i downloaded the fonts from https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/ and extracted them into the directory. The Code: ERROR: ParaView reader module library (PVFoamReader) does not exist Please build the reader module before continuing: cd $WM_PROJECT_DIR/applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/PVReaders ./Allwclean ./Allwmake Using the native VTK/OpenFOAM reader instead still orrcurs. Do I need the PVFoamReader? Thanks in advance. tonnykz likes this.

July 6, 2018, 06:24		#8
arash1 New Member arash Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 11 Rep Power: 15	I myself struggle with building paraView which fails at 14% of installation. I wonder why such a obvious thing should be that problematic... [Moderator note: Below is the post that was alone in another thread regarding this same issue.] Dear all, I was trying to build paraView on Ubuntu 16.04 but got the following error: . . . [ 14%] Linking CXX shared library ../../../lib/libvtkCommonCore-pv5.5.so [ 14%] Built target vtkCommonCore Makefile:149: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2 Command exited with non-zero status 2 1225.34user 147.56system 11:48.32elapsed 193%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1308812maxresident)k 412216inputs+495472outputs (1011major+17784156minor)pagefaults 0swaps --- I followed the steps as instructed in BUILD.md. First I built Qt by running ./makeQt 5.9.3 and then ./makeParaView -qt-5.9.3 5.5.2 Any help is appreciated. Last edited by wyldckat; August 17, 2018 at 15:53. Reason: see "Moderator note"

July 6, 2018, 07:30		#10
arash1 New Member arash Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 11 Rep Power: 15	I suppose! Here's what I did: 1. downloading qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.9.3 and unpacking it in the thirdparty directory 2. bulding qt (./makeQt 5.9.3) 3. downloading cmake-3.5.2 and unpacking in the thirdparty directory 4. building cmake (./makeCmake cmake-3.5.2) 5. building paraView (./makeParaView -qt-5.9.3 5.5.2) => . . . Code: [ 14%] Linking CXX shared library ../../../lib/libvtkCommonCore-pv5.5.so [ 14%] Built target vtkCommonCore Makefile:149: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2 Command exited with non-zero status 2 1174.29user 135.59system 11:30.02elapsed 189%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1309248maxresident)k 542560inputs+495472outputs (1455major+17784277minor)pagefaults 0swaps lourencosm, tonnykz and Gang Wang like this.

July 3, 2018, 12:06		#3
LuckyTran Senior Member Lucky Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Orlando, FL USA Posts: 5,761 Rep Power: 66	Probably your paraView never compiled (and the error msg points at a missing Qt installation). A dummy way to check is to look in the platform directory and see if these directories are there. I.e. go to /ThirdParty-v1806/platforms/linuxsomething/ and make sure there is ParaView-5.5.x and also check for qt-#.#.#

July 5, 2018, 08:54		#5
olesen Senior Member Mark Olesen Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: https://olesenm.github.io/ Posts: 1,715 Rep Power: 40	Perhaps try with qt-5.9.3 - it is an LTS version that I believe the ParaView developers are using. Maybe something odd changed with qt-5.11, you never really know.

July 6, 2018, 06:28		#9
TU_Hiwi New Member Lukas Join Date: Jul 2018 Posts: 20 Rep Power: 8	have you build cmake and Qt?

July 9, 2018, 10:38		#11
matejfor Senior Member matej forman Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Brno, Czech Republic Posts: 182 Rep Power: 17	Hi Arash, what system are you compiling on? The qt version is system version (if so, which version) or you have installed 5.9.3 (this is the one you want really to compile). and which version of cmake you have? My experience with compilation is, if the system versions of the dev libs are old, I follow the BUILD.md and things starts to work. You should also inspect the log from the paraview compilation. It's hard to give specific advise without detailed information.

July 9, 2018, 16:15		#12
arash1 New Member arash Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 11 Rep Power: 15	Thanks Matej for your suggestion. The OS was Ubuntu 16 - 32bit and you are right I also think the error could be because of the platform. I also had it run under VM which could also cause instability. Anyway I switched to OF 5.0 and Ubuntu 18 (64bit) and it works fine.

July 9, 2018, 16:54		#13
matejfor Senior Member matej forman Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Brno, Czech Republic Posts: 182 Rep Power: 17	well if you do not need all the perks of 1806 it is a way how to go but not really a solution. Which version of paraview is used in version 5? Is it the 5.5 or 5.4 or other? Especially on Ubuntu 64bit there is no problem to compile openfoam and paraview. You just have to follow all the pre-requisites. I can imagine you have to be careful with 32bit version, but why you need 32 bits? On virtual machines, the trouble is typically the inconsistency of OpenGL which is not accessing the OpenGL of your graphics but is using software rendering only. Then this little environmental variable settings might help (this is more as a reference to other users): >> export MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.2 which will make system pretend the 3.2 GL version to make you paraview started correctly. Happy foaming

July 9, 2018, 17:46		#14
arash1 New Member arash Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 11 Rep Power: 15	Many thanks. I learned from your comment. Unfortunately, I erased everything after it didn't work, so I am not sure about the versions. It was the latest version from openfoam.com (OF V1806) though. As you said, this experience may be helpful to someone.

July 9, 2018, 18:00		#15
matejfor Senior Member matej forman Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Brno, Czech Republic Posts: 182 Rep Power: 17	Hi, I was asking about the Paraview version of OpenFOAM-v5. And it is Paraview 5.4 Which explains many things. Paraview 5.4 and 5.5.2 compilations are different. For example the 5.5.2 insist on GL 2, it needs to be compiled with qt5 and few other differences. But it is worth it. Anyways, message for others, or for you, if you want to try over the weekend: OpenFOAM 1806 and paraview 5.5.2 compiles smoothly on Ubuntu 64 bits. And the extra modelling capabilities of 1806 and Catalyst from Paraview are worth the try.

July 9, 2018, 18:03		#16
matejfor Senior Member matej forman Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Brno, Czech Republic Posts: 182 Rep Power: 17	Hi Lukas, your error message regarding the Qt5 missing links to files instructs you quite clearly what to do: you have to set env. variable Qt5_DIR to point to your Qt5 libs place. E.g: export Qt5_DIR=$WM_THIRDPARTY_DIR/platforms/linux64Gcc/lib/cmake/Qt5 it was in my case, as I was compiling the qt5 libs in Thirdparty dir. hope this helps

July 11, 2018, 17:27		#17
TU_Hiwi New Member Lukas Join Date: Jul 2018 Posts: 20 Rep Power: 8	Hey matjefor, thanks for this hint. So i searched and found the missing files and executed this command: Code: export Qt5_DIR=$WM_THIRDPARTY_DIR/platforms/linux64Gcc/qt-5.9.5/lib/cmake/Qt5 . Hiting ./Allwclean and ./Allwmake the same error still occurs. Any Idea what i did wrong?

August 7, 2018, 09:31		#20
calim_cfd Senior Member mauricio Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 172 Rep Power: 18	Hi, foamers! It's been a while since i last posted in these forums. Anyway i struggled with the ThirdyParty installation within openSUSE and i thought i could share my solution here. The problem appears when we try to: Code: ./Allwmake inside the $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR Basically i got qt and vtk errors. They don't come with the thirdparty tar file. I had to download both: Qt-5.9.3 (qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.9.3.tar.xz) @ https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.9/5.9.3/single/ VTK 8.1.1 (VTK-8.1.1.tar.gz) @ https://www.vtk.org/download/ I unpacked both to $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR then i ran : Code: ./makeQt 5.9.3 and installed it Now, i don't recall if i tried to run Code: ./makeVTK 8.1.1 and it didn't work. You could try this before doing what i did. I'm sorry but i tried so many things that i can't be precise right now. if it doens't work, you can do what i did: i jumped into the script: Code: gedit makeVTK and changed the line: Code: VTK_VERSION="$vtk_version" to Code: VTK_VERSION=8.1.1 then i ran the script Code: ./makeVTK next, i don't know whether it made any difference, but i went to https://software.opensuse.org/package/Mesa and installed the Mesa package too. I did it with the automatic install which comes from the source mirror. Finally i was able to type: Code: ./makeParaview and compile it. Wish this was as ez as ubuntu's. Anyway, hope this helps some1 l8r! raj kumar saini and Peida like this. __________________ Best Regards /calim "Elune will grant us the strength"

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