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Supplementary ParaView/OpenFOAM reader modules not found by paraFoam when compiling from source

Summary

When compiling OpenFOAM v2006 and ParaView 5.6.3 from source, the PVFoamReader and PVblockMeshReader modules are not installed to the $PV_PLUGIN_DIR directory specified in etc/config.sh/paraview. When paraFoam is run it gives the following error message:

Invalid $PV_PLUGIN_PATH and -plugin-path= not defined
No supplementary ParaView/OpenFOAM reader modules
Using builtin reader: paraFoam -vtk

Created temporary 'pitzDaily.foam'

before defaulting to the native reader instead. This means that the functionality of the supplementary reader modules cannot be used.

Steps to reproduce

The following is a list of commands to compile OpenFOAM v2006 from source in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential flex bison cmake zlib1g-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev \
libopenmpi-dev openmpi-bin gnuplot libreadline-dev libncurses-dev libxt-dev \
qt5-default libqt5x11extras5-dev libqt5help5 qtdeclarative5-dev qttools5-dev \
libqtwebkit-dev freeglut3-dev libqt5opengl5-dev texinfo \
libscotch-dev libcgal-dev python python-dev libglu1-mesa-dev

mkdir $HOME/OpenFOAM && cd $HOMEOpenFOAM

wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/openfoam/files/v2006/OpenFOAM-v2006.tgz

wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/openfoam/files/v2006/ThirdParty-v2006.tgz

tar -xzf OpenFOAM-v2006.tgz -C $HOME/OpenFOAM && tar -xzf ThirdParty-v2006.tgz -C $HOME/OpenFOAM

source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v2006/etc/bashrc WM_LABEL_SIZE=64

cd $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR

export QT_SELECT=qt5

./makeParaView -mpi -python2 -python-lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0 > log.makePV 2>&1

ln -s ParaView-v5.6.3/VTK/ VTK-8.2.0

./makeVTK -mpi

wmRefresh

cd $WM_PROJECT_DIR

./Allwmake -j > log.make 2>&1

mkdir -p $FOAM_RUN

Example case

What is the current bug behaviour?

Performing the standard post-compilation steps:

cd $FOAM_RUN
cp -r $FOAM_TUTORIALS/incompressible/simpleFoam/pitzDaily ./
cd pitzDaily
blockMesh
simpleFoam

followed by

paraFoam

gives the error listed in the summary above.

What is the expected correct behavior?

The expected behaviour is that the supplementary PVFoamReader module is used and the following message is printed to the terminal

Created temporary 'pitzDaily.OpenFOAM'

Relevant logs and/or images

Environment information

  • OpenFOAM version : v2006
  • Operating system : Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  • Hardware info : -
  • Compiler : gcc

Possible fixes

I fixed this issue as follows:

cd $FOAM_LIBBIN

ln -s lib/paraview-5.6/ .

ln -s lib/libvtkPV* .

as it appears that paraview-5.6/libParaFoamBlockReader.so, paraview-5.6/libParaFoamReader.so, libvtkPVblockReader-pv5.6.so, libvtkPVFoamCommon-pv5.6.so and libvtkPVFoamReader-pv5.6.so are located in $FOAM_LIBBIN/lib and not $FOAM_LIBBIN itself.

Edited by Michael Groom