How do I compile ParaView for Mac OS X?
To build ParaView (version 2.2) on the Mac OS X (Panther), using X11, do the following. 1) Get the ParaView source (either from CVS or from a source tarball available from ParaView’s website. 2) Create a binary directory beside the one for the source code. 3) Run ccmake. Set BUILD_SHARED_LIBS to ON; set VTK_USE_CARBON to OFF; set VTK_USE_X to ON; check that CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER is set to c++ and that CMAKE_C_COMPILER is set to gcc. Also make sure that OPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR is set to a directory that contains GL/gl.h, and set OPENGL_gl_LIBRARY and OPENGL_glu_LIBRARY accordingly. Then configure and generate. 4) Run make. To build ParaView 2.4 on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) on PowerPC, you should also set CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS and CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS to “-Wl,-search_paths_first” before generating in ccmake. The following settings allowed ParaView 2.4.4 to compile successfully on Mac OS X 10.4.7 on a G4 using CMake 2.4.2 with GCC 3.3 and with GCC 4.0. The ones in bold are different from the de
