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OpenFOAM Paraview build error QX11info missing

I am trying to build ParaView 5.4.0 with PARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI=ON as a part of OpenFOAM 5.0. And I am getting an error:

/home/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.0/ParaView-5.4.0/VTK/GUISupport/Qt/QVTKWidget.cxx:50:11: fatal error: QX11Info: No such file or directory

# include <QX11Info>
^~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

I think my QT 5.6.2 built is correctly and I can see QX11Info there:

$ ls Qt5/include/QtX11Extras/
QX11Info QtX11Extras QtX11ExtrasDepends QtX11ExtrasVersion qtx11extrasglobal.h qtx11extrasversion.h qx11info_x11.h

So how do I point ParaView to QT headers?

You have also to install QtWebkit. As far as I know it is not included in the QT distribution.

Norbert

Quick question @stasserg: With Linux Distribution and version are you using?

Thanks for the answers.

I actually found a solution my problem, after talking to ParaView developers. My VTK_USE_X was set to OFF.

I also was missing libGL.so (I build latest mesa from source) so my Qt5.6.2 was not building properly.

After addressing these 2 I was able to build ParaView, and PVReaders afterwards.

Same problem - but can't turn on VTK Use X

Dear Stas,

I have the exact same problem:
/home/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.0/ParaView-5.4.0/VTK/GUISupport/Qt/QVTKWidget.cxx:50:11: fatal error: QX11Info: No such file or directory

And indeed, the files are actually present, like in your case.

Are you perhaps following this procedure as well, to install Paraview for OS Mesa?:
https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaVi...ew_And_Mesa_3D

I need it to run post processing scripts on a server without screen.
So I too would like to include the header files of QtExtras in the paraview installation. However, I don't have the option to turn on VTK USE X, as I actually need it.

Did you perhaps find a way to solve it using a reference to the header file?

Thanks a lot!

Wouter.

Solved (for now :) )

Hi Stas, and anyone alse facing similar issues,

finally it worked, in part thanks to the suggestions Stas mailed me!

Here is a short overview of the install options I used (for installation on an amazon server):

*Packages to be installed*

Code:

sudo apt-get install build-essential flex bison git-core cmake zlib1g-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev libopenmpi-dev openmpi-bin gnuplot libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev libxt-dev freeglut3-dev pkg-config autoconf python-pip gcc dos2unix



sudo apt-get build-dep mesa

*Install LLVM*
- download source files (I used 3.9.1)
- build with:

Code:

cmake                                           \

 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release                    \

 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr                   \

 -DLLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB=ON                    \

 -DLLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=ON                         \

 -DLLVM_INSTALL_UTILS=ON                       \

 -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD:STRING=X86            \

 ../llvm-3.9.1.src

*Install OS Mesa*
Configure as follows:

Code:

./configure                                         \

 --prefix=/usr                                     \

 --libdir=/usr/lib                                 \

 --enable-opengl --disable-gles1 --disable-gles2   \

 --disable-va --disable-xvmc --disable-vdpau       \

 --enable-shared-glapi                             \

 --disable-texture-float                           \

 --enable-gallium-llvm --enable-llvm-shared-libs   \

 --with-llvm-prefix=/usr                           \

 --with-gallium-drivers=swrast,swr                 \

 --disable-dri --with-dri-drivers=                 \

 --disable-egl --with-egl-platforms= --disable-gbm \

 --disable-glx                                     \

 --disable-osmesa --enable-gallium-osmesa

*Install QT*
- download source file (I used 5.9.1)
- configure as follows

Code:

./configure                     \

-prefix /opt/Qt5.9              \

-nomake tests                   \

-nomake examples                \

-opensource                     \

-confirm-license                \

-release                        \

-opengl

*Build paraview*
- Set the enviroment if needed (OpenFOAM variables etc)
- download paraview source files (I used 5.4)
- build as follows:

Code:

cmake ../ParaView-v5.4.0/                                         \

 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR/platforms/linux64Gcc/ParaView-5.4.0"\

 -DQt5_DIR="/opt/Qt5.9/lib/cmake/Qt5"                            \

 -DPARAVIEW_QT_VERSION:STRING=5                                  \

 -DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE:PATH="/opt/Qt5.9/bin/qmake"               \

 -DPARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI=OFF                                     \

 -DVTK_USE_X=OFF                                                 \

 -DOPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR=IGNORE                                     \

 -DOPENGL_xmesa_INCLUDE_DIR=IGNORE                               \

 -DOPENGL_gl_LIBRARY=IGNORE                                      \

 -DOSMESA_INCLUDE_DIR="/usr/include/GL"                          \

 -DOSMESA_LIBRARY="/usr/lib/libOSMesa.so"                   \

 -DVTK_OPENGL_HAS_OSMESA=ON                                      \

 -DVTK_USE_OFFSCREEN=OFF                                         \

 -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON=ON                                     \

 -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH="/usr/include/python2.7"                  \

 -DPYTHON_LIBRARY="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0"\

 -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON                                     \

 -DVTK_USE_RPATH:BOOL=OFF                                         \

 -DPARAVIEW_INSTALL_DEVELOPMENT_FILES:BOOL=ON                    \

 -DBUILD_TESTING:BOOL=OFF

Hope this helps for others!

Cheers

Wouter.