[ajmas]

Does anyone know how to get paraFoam running on MacOS X?

I have started with the successful build from the Git repo https://github.com/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.3.x and followed the "Getting Started" instructions on OpenFOAM Ubuntu download page: http://www.openfoam.org/download/ubuntu.php

When I try running paraFoam I get:

FATAL ERROR: ParaView reader module libraries do not exist

Please build the reader module before continuing:
cd $FOAM_UTILITIES/postProcessing/graphics/PV4Readers
./Allwclean
./Allwmake

Running the two commands then results in:

WARN: PV4 readers not building: ParaView_VERSION=

I then try the following:

export ParaView_DIR="${PARAVIEW_APP_DIR}/Contents/MacOS"
export ParaView_VERSION=4.3.1
export PV_PLUGIN_PATH=“${PARAVIEW_APP_DIR}/Plugins/“

and this kinda builds, but fails with a bunch of errors, starting with:

SOURCE=vtkPV4Readers.C ;  g++-mp-4.8 -m64 -fsignaling-nans  -ftrapping-math -DdarwinIntel64 -DWM_DP -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wold-style-cast -Wnon-virtual-dtor -O2  -DNoRepository -ftemplate-depth-100 -I -IlnInclude -I. -I/Volumes/OpenFOAM-Development-2.3.x/OpenFOAM-2.3.x/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude -I/Volumes/OpenFOAM-Development-2.3.x/OpenFOAM-2.3.x/src/OSspecific/POSIX/lnInclude   -fPIC -Ddarwin -c $SOURCE -o Make/darwinIntel64Gcc48DPOpt/vtkPV4Readers.o
vtkPV4Readers.C:35:35: fatal error: vtkDataArraySelection.h: No such file or directory
 #include "vtkDataArraySelection.h"
                                   ^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [Make/darwinIntel64Gcc48DPOpt/vtkPV4Readers.o] Error 1

A quick search for the header vtkDataArraySelection.h does not reveal it anywhere in the OpenFOAM project anywhere?

Can anyone provide any suggestions as to how to resolve this?

[ajmas]

Okay I have patched the paraFoam command to simply ignore the "libPV${version}FoamReader_SM" check and call the paraview command in /Applications/paraview.app/Contents/MacOS, but now I get the following error, during launching of Paraview:

created temporary 'cavity.OpenFOAM'
Read float past end of buffer
Read float past end of buffer
Read float past end of buffer
Read float past end of buffer

Any ideas?

[alexeym]

Hi,

Preview's built-in reader uses foam extension (not OpenFOAM). So I guess in addition to

created temporary 'cavity.OpenFOAM'
Read float past end of buffer
Read float past end of buffer
Read float past end of buffer
Read float past end of buffer

you also got a dialog asking to select a reader to the file. You can try to use "paraFoam -builtin" command. Or change lines 70-73 to

# reader extension
extension=foam

requirePV=0

Though in this case you will have certain problems with uniformFixedValue types of BCs (built-in reader does not know this kind of boundary conditions and actively complains about it).

And finally vtkDataArraySelection.h is a part of VTK library that is used by Paraview. Do you have ThirdParty folder with Paraview sources?

[ajmas]

Originally Posted by alexeym

Hi,

Though in this case you will have certain problems with uniformFixedValue types of BCs (built-in reader does not know this kind of boundary conditions and actively complains about it).

And finally vtkDataArraySelection.h is a part of VTK library that is used by Paraview. Do you have ThirdParty folder with Paraview sources?

I don't the instructions I was following suggested I didn't need them, since MacPorts and Paraview.app provided everything I needed. It would appear these may need some updating to make OpenFOAM 2.3.x play nicely with paraview.app.