[paulj]

Hi

I have to install OpenFoam on Centos 7.5 (no don't ask!) and following issues with the graphics I have moved to building from source.
I'm using openfoam-6
The actual openfoam is okay but issues with installing openFoam
I have a work around at the bottom but was wondering if anyone has the same issue.


Installing paraView /paraFoam

As per notes https://openfoam.org/download/source...arty-software/

[paulj@pjux3 ThirdParty-6]$ ./makeParaView              
...

After a long time

...
[ 99%] Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libNonOrthogonalSource.so
[ 99%] Built target paraview
[ 99%] Built target NonOrthogonalSource
make: *** [all] Error 2

I save a log file using

[paulj@pjux3 ThirdParty-6]$ ./makeParaView -qmake $(which qmake-qt4) > log.makePV 2>&1

Looking for errors the only thing I could see was.

--------------
[ 99%] Compiling Qt help project StreamLinesRepresentation.qhp
Error copying directory from "/home/paulj/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-6/ParaView-5.4.0/Plugins/StreamLinesRepresentation/doc" to "/home/paulj/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-6/build/linux64Gcc/ParaView-5.4.0/Plugins/StreamLinesRepresentation/doc".
[ 99%] Compiling Qt help project NonOrthogonalSource.qhp
-------------------------

That is because the source folder does not exist, i.e. no doc folder.

As a consequence

[paulj@pjux3 cavity]$ paraFoam

FATAL ERROR: ParaView reader module libraries do not exist

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

So I do this but get

[paulj@pjux3 PVReaders]$ ./Allwmake 
Allwmake applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/PVReaders
    ERROR: ParaView not found in /home/paulj/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-6/platforms/linux64Gcc/ParaView-5.4.0

That is because the directory has the wrong name.

[paulj@pjux3 ~]$ ls /home/paulj/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-6/platforms/
linux64GccDPInt32

Aside/Workaround
I copied the paraFoam from my Ubuntu box and initially got:

[paulj@pjux3 cavity]$ ~/paraFoam &
[1] 28895
[paulj@pjux3 cavity]$ FATAL ERROR: The official reader module for OpenFOAM data does not exist on
your system.  This means that the version of ParaView you are using was not
compiled with OpenFOAM, or distributed with a packaged version of OpenFOAM.

For information on packaged versions of OpenFOAM/ParaView and compilation of
OpenFOAM/ParaView, see https://openfoam.org/download

Alternatively, you might be able to view your OpenFOAM data with the reader
module provided with ParaView by running:
    paraFoam -builtin


[1]+  Exit 1                  ~/paraFoam

Trying this seems to work :-)

[paulj@pjux3 cavity]$ ~/paraFoam -builtin
Created temporary 'cavity.foam'