VisIt 3.1.4 is installed on Expanse. You can install the plugin in your home directory.
When using client-server mode, the local VisIt(client) must use the same VisIt as the HPC(server). To use Expanse client-server VisIt (as of 6/30/2023), you must also install this plugin on your local machine with VisIt 3.1.4.
Currently, there is no 'visit' module, so we need to set the environment by adding the path to VisIt's xml commands used to compile the plugins.
The instructions for running in client-server mode are here: /cm/shared/examples/sdsc/visit/README.
From that, you can get the path: /cm/shared/apps/vis/visit/3.1.4/gcc/9.2.0/openmpi/3.1.6/3.1.4/linux-x86_64/bin, which indicates that VisIt 3.1.4 was compiled with gcc 9.2.0 and openmpi 3.1.6.
First, load those gcc and openmpi modules, and load cmake.
module load gcc/9.2.0
module load openmpi/3.1.6
module load cmake
Here is my modulefile for VisIt 3.1.4.
#%Module
set VISITARCHHOME "/cm/shared/apps/vis/visit/3.1.4/gcc/9.2.0/openmpi/3.1.6/3.1.4/linux-x86_64"
setenv VISITARCHHOME "/cm/shared/apps/vis/visit/3.1.4/gcc/9.2.0/openmpi/3.1.6/3.1.4/linux-x86_64"
prepend-path PATH "$VISITARCHHOME/bin"
prepend-path LD_LIBRARY_PATH "$VISITARCHHOME/lib"
setenv VISITPLUGININSTPRI "/home/llowe/.visit/3.1.4/linux-x86_64/plugins/"
And I have this in my .bashrc:
module use --append /home/llowe/modulefiles
So now load visit
module load visit
If you don't want to make a module, do:
export PATH=/cm/shared/apps/vis/visit/3.1.4/gcc/9.2.0/openmpi/3.1.6/3.1.4/linux-x86_64/bin:$PATH
Now try the steps to install the plugin.
Get the plugin code.
git clone https://github.com/schism-dev/schism_visit_plugin.git
cd schism_visit_plugin
Install the unstructure_data plugin:
cd unstructure_data
The commands with xml2 are VisIt commands.
xml2cmake -clobber SCHISMOutput.xml
xml2info SCHISMOutput.xml
SCHISMOutput.xml is the file used by VisIt code generating tool to create code skeleton and makelist file.
Make a build directory:
mkdir build
cd build
Use cmake to create the make system.
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release -S .. -B .
Run make to build plugins binary.
make
Check:
ls ~/.visit/3.1.4/linux-x86_64/plugins/databases
There should be four new files in ~/.visit/3.1.4/linux-x86_64/plugins/databases:
libESCHISMDatabase_par.so
libESCHISMDatabase_ser.so
libISCHISMDatabase_par.so
libMSCHISMDatabase_par.so
Repeat the steps for the other plugins:
cd ~/schism_visit_plugin/prop
xml2cmake -clobber prop.xml
xml2info prop.xml
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release -S .. -B .
make
ls ~/.visit/3.1.4/linux-x86_64/plugins/databases
And
cd ~/schism_visit_plugin/gr3
xml2cmake -clobber gr3.xml
xml2info gr3.xml
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release ..
make
ls ~/.visit/3.1.4/linux-x86_64/plugins/databases
Works.
And
cd ~/schism_visit_plugin/mdschism
xml2cmake -clobber mdschism.xml
xml2info mdschism.xml
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release ..
make
Error.
So, this is where we hack the makefiles, as per Eric's email (see below),
vi CMakeFiles/EMDSCHISMDatabase_par.dir/flags.make
vi CMakeFiles/MMDSCHISMDatabase.dir/flags.make
vi CMakeFiles/EMDSCHISMDatabase_ser.dir/flags.make
vi CMakeFiles/IMDSCHISMDatabase.dir/flags.make
and remove all the
libnetcdf_c++.a libnetcdf.a libhdf5_hl.so libhdf5.so libsz.so libz.so
and then, do make:
make
Check that you have all the plugins now:
ls ~/.visit/3.1.4/linux-x86_64/plugins/databases
You should have the following.
libEMDSCHISMDatabase_par.so libEpropDatabase_par.so libMMDSCHISMDatabase.so
libEMDSCHISMDatabase_ser.so libEpropDatabase_ser.so libMSCHISMDatabase.so
libESCHISMDatabase_par.so libIMDSCHISMDatabase.so libMgr3Database.so
libESCHISMDatabase_ser.so libISCHISMDatabase.so libMpropDatabase.so
libEgr3Database_par.so libIgr3Database.so
libEgr3Database_ser.so libIpropDatabase.so