Compilation error 3.4.1:'QX11Application' is not a member of 'QNativeInterface'

[tharman-git]

Greetings,

I'm hitting a compilation error:

3.4.1-build/visit3.4.1/src/winutil/WindowMetrics.C:211:71: error: 'QX11Application' is not a member of 'QNativeInterface' 3.4.1-build/visit3.4.1/src/winutil/WindowMetrics.C:211:87: error: no matching function for call to 'QApplication::nativeInterface<<expression error> >()' 3.4.1-build/visit3.4.1/src/winutil/WindowMetrics.C:211:87: error: template argument 1 is invalid 3.4.1-build/visit3.4.1/src/winutil/WindowMetrics.C:480:71: error: 'QX11Application' is not a member of 'QNativeInterface' 3.4.1-build/visit3.4.1/src/winutil/WindowMetrics.C:480:87: error: no matching function for call to 'QApplication::nativeInterface<<expression error> >()' 3.4.1-build/visit3.4.1/src/winutil/WindowMetrics.C:480:87: error: template argument 1 is invalid 3.4.1-build/visit3.4.1/src/winutil/WindowMetrics.C:662:71: error: 'QX11Application' is not a member of 'QNativeInterface' 3.4.1-build/visit3.4.1/src/winutil/WindowMetrics.C:662:87: error: no matching function for call to 'QApplication::nativeInterface<<expression error> >()' 3.4.1-build/visit3.4.1/src/winutil/WindowMetrics.C:662:87: error: template argument 1 is invalid
with the command:

build_visit3_4_1 --parallel --uintah --no-icet --mesagl --llvm --no-sphinx --skip-opengl-context-check --mpich --system-cmake --qt6 --vtk9 --visit --makeflags -j10

Attached is the log file.
build_visit3_4_1_log.gz

I'm compiling this on a cluster that is running:

Rocky Linux 8.8

with the modules:

1. chpc/1.0 (S) 2) gcc/11.2.0 3) zlib/1.3.1 4) openmpi/4.1.6 5) cmake/3.26.0

Thanks for any insight you may have.
Todd Harman
University of Utah

[biagas]

You will want to check qtbase-everywhere-src-6.4.2-build/config.summary for items related to X11 and xcb.

If it doesn't look like what's listed below, it is likely that your system is missing some of the related requirements.

  xkbcommon .............................. yes
  X11 specific:
    XLib ................................. yes
    XCB Xlib ............................. yes
    EGL on X11 ........................... no
    xkbcommon-x11 ........................ yes
    xcb-sm ............................... yes

  XCB:
    Using system-provided xcb-xinput ..... no
    GL integrations:
      GLX Plugin ......................... yes
        XCB GLX .......................... yes
      EGL-X11 Plugin ..................... no

Here is a list of packages I needed to install when I was building in a Rocky 8.9 Docker container:

    libxcb \
    libxcb-devel \
    xcb-util \
    xcb-util-devel \
    xcb-util-image \
    xcb-util-image-devel \
    xcb-util-keysyms \
    xcb-util-keysyms-devel \
    xcb-util-renderutil \
    xcb-util-renderutil-devel \
    xcb-util-wm \
    xcb-util-wm-devel \
    xcb-proto \
    libxkbcommon \
    libxkbcommon-devel \
    libxkbcommon-x11 \
    libxkbcommon-x11-devel \
    mesa-libGL-devel \
    libX11 \
    libX11-devel \
    libX11-xcb \
    libXext \
    libXext-devel \
    fontconfig \
    fontconfig-devel \
    xorg-x11-utils \
    xorg-x11-xkb-utils \
    libXt-devel \
    libXrender-devel \
    libXfixes \
    libXfixes-devel \
    libXcursor \
    libXcursor-devel \

[tharman-git]

Thanks for the quick reply.

The system is missing some of the dependencies:

 xkbcommon .............................. yes
  X11 specific:
    XLib ................................. yes
    XCB Xlib ............................. yes
    EGL on X11 ........................... no
    xkbcommon-x11 ........................ no
    xcb-sm ............................... no

XCB:
    Using system-provided xcb-xinput ..... no
    GL integrations:
      GLX Plugin ......................... no
        XCB GLX .......................... no
      EGL-X11 Plugin ..................... no

I'll contact the system admins.

[tharman-git]

@biagas The admins have installed additional packages. To recompile do you recommend a) removing all of the directories in 3.4.1-build/* or b) removing 3.4.1-build/visit3.4.1/ before issuing the build_visit command. The time to recompile is much shorter for option b.

Thanks

[biagas]

@tharman-git Qt and anything that depends on it will need to be rebuilt. So, remove Qt, VTK, Qwt, Xdmf dirs from both the 3.4.1-build as well as 3.4.1-build/third_party along with 3.4.1-build/visit3.4.1

[biagas]

Converting this to a discussion.
@tharman-git, have you had success building VisIt?

[tharman-git]

We successfully compile VisIt after installing:

libxkbcommon-x11-devel
xcb-util-devel
xcb-util-image-devel
xcb-util-keysyms-devel
xcb-util-renderutil-devel
xcb-util-wm-devel

[hedgehog-fog]

Hello, I've been using this helpful thread to work on building Visit for another ARM64 system, based on an Ampere Altra (Neoverse N1) SOC, on Ubuntu 22.04.4 (Server), and have successfully built Visit but then run into a problem:

After successfully building visit, I first deleted an old, incompatible version of visit:
$ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/visit
Then I ran the installation script (noting the name of the .tgz file in the build_visit folder is visit3_4_1.linux-intel.tar.gz):
$ sudo ./visit-install 3.4.1 linux-intel /usr/local/visit
Then I ran visit
$ which visit
$ /usr/local/visit/bin/visit
$ visit
This loaded the splash screen but then crashed with this message:
Running: gui3.4.1
Running: viewer3.4.1 -geometry 1560x1080+360+0 -borders 26,4,4,4 -shift 0,0 -preshift 4,26 -defer -host 127.0.0.1 -port 5600
Running: mdserver3.4.1 -host 127.0.0.1 -port 5601
Unable to find target for this triple (no targets are registered)
VisIt's viewer exited abnormally! Aborting the Graphical User Interface. VisIt's developers may be reached via our GitHub discussions, https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/discussions

If I run with this flag it runs fine, but there is of course no display window:
$ visit -nowin
I'm a novice at building software, and I would say at intermediate skill level at linux adminstration. Any idea what I should try next? Reading around online there are references to LLVM, but i'm not sure how to incorporate them into my workflow.

Thanks so much for your help!

Here's my workflow:

Downloaded the 3.4.1 build script and changed these lines per @tharman-git's other discussion threads:
21388: CFLAGS="-std=c++11 $CFLAGS $C_OPT_FLAGS -headerpad_max_install_names" CXXFLAGS="-std=c++11 $CXXFLAGS $CXX_OPT_FLAGS"
21409: CFLAGS="-std=c++11 $CFLAGS $C_OPT_FLAGS" CXXFLAGS="-std=c++11 $CXXFLAGS $CXX_OPT_FLAGS"
Manually downloaded some required source files to speed things up:
$ wget https://www.vtk.org/files/release/9.2/VTK-9.2.6.tar.gz
$ wget https://archive.mesa3d.org/older-versions/17.x/mesa-17.3.9.tar.xz
$ wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.18/Python-3.9.18.tgz
$ wget https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/6.4/6.4.2/submodules/qtbase-everywhere-src-6.4.2.tar.xz
$ wget https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/releases/download/v3.4.1/visit3.4.1.tar.gz
Following this thread, I found that this library was missing on my system: xcb-proto
Then I cleaned up my build folders and ran the build script:
$ cd build_visit
$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec /bin/rm -rf {} ;
$ ./build_visit3_4_1 --parallel --uintah --no-icet --mesagl --llvm --no-sphinx --skip-opengl-context-check --system-cmake --qt6 --vtk9 --visit --makeflags -j20
Got this error:
Building UINTAH (~10 minutes)
For Linux builds the PAR_COMPILER, PAR_COMPILER_CXX, and PAR_INCLUDE environment variables must be set.
PAR_INCLUDE should be of the form "-I/path/to/mpi/include"
Added this line to my ~/.bashrc and opened a new terminal:
export PAR_INCLUDE="-I$OPENMPI_ROOT"/include
Then I cleaned up my build folders again and re-ran the build script:
$ cd build_visit
$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec /bin/rm -rf {} ;
.$ /build_visit3_4_1 --parallel --uintah --no-icet --mesagl --llvm --no-sphinx --skip-opengl-context-check --system-cmake --qt6 --vtk9 --visit --makeflags -j20
Received this error:
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:569 (cmake_minimum_required):
CMake 3.24 or higher is required. You are running version 3.22.1
I tried adding --cmake to the build_visit flags:
$ cd ~/repos/build_visit;
$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec /bin/rm -rf {} ;
$ ./build_visit3_4_1 --parallel --uintah --no-icet --mesagl --llvm --no-sphinx --skip-opengl-context-check --system-cmake --qt6 --vtk9 --visit --makeflags -j20 --cmake
This failed again due to having the wrong cmake version (same error). So I tried manually installing a newer cmake version:
$ sudo apt-fast remove cmake;
$ wget https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.30.0-rc3/cmake-3.30.0-rc3-linux-aarch64.sh;
$ sudo mv cmake-3.30.0-rc3-linux-aarch64.sh /opt/.;
$ chmod +x /opt/cmake-3.30.0-rc3-linux-aarch64.sh;
$ cd /opt;
$ sudo bash /opt/cmake-3.30.0-rc3-linux-aarch64.sh;
$ sudo ln -s /opt/cmake-3.30.0-rc3-linux-aarch64.sh/bin/* /usr/local/bin;
$ PATH=$PATH:/opt/cmake-3.30.0-rc3-linux-aarch64/bin;
Then cleaned up and re-ran the build script again, without the --cmake flag:
$ cd ~/repos/build_visit;
$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec /bin/rm -rf {} ;
$ ./build_visit3_4_1 --parallel --uintah --no-icet --mesagl --llvm --no-sphinx --skip-opengl-context-check --system-cmake --qt6 --vtk9 --visit --makeflags -j20
It compiled successfully
However, I did notice in the build_visit log these lines at the end:
Symlinking current to 3.4.1
CMake Error: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/local/current': Permission denied
CPack: Create package
CPack: - package: ~/repos/build_visit/visit3.4.1/build/visit3_4_1.linux-intel.tar.gz generated.
Deleted an old, incompatible version of visit that I had installed before:
$ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/visit
Ran the installation script (noting the name of the .tgz file in the build_visit folder is visit3_4_1.linux-intel.tar.gz):
$ sudo ./visit-install 3.4.1 linux-intel /usr/local/visit
Then I ran visit
$ which visit
$ /usr/local/visit/bin/visit
$ visit
This loaded the splash screen but then crashed with this message:
Unable to find target for this triple (no targets are registered)
If I run with this flag it runs fine, but there is of course no display window:
$ visit -nowin
I tried re-building without the --system-cmake option:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec /bin/rm -rf {} ;
$ ./build_visit3_4_1 --parallel --uintah --no-icet --mesagl --llvm --no-sphinx --skip-opengl-context-check --qt6 --vtk9 --visit --makeflags -j20
Successfully built again
Deleted the previously installed version of visit3_4_1.linux-intel.tar.gz
$ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/visit
Ran the installation script with the newly generated visit3_4_1.linux-intel.tar.gz:
$ sudo ./visit-install 3.4.1 linux-intel /usr/local/visit
Then I ran visit again
$ which visit
$ /usr/local/visit/bin/visit
$ visit
Again, this loaded the splash screen but then crashed with this message:
Unable to find target for this triple (no targets are registered)

[hedgehog-fog]

Hello all, I also tried not manually downloading the source archives, and allowing visit to build cmake itself.

• So first I cleaned up the manually installed cmake in /opt
  $ sudo rm -rf /opt/cmake*
• And reinstalled the package manager verison of cmake
  $ sudo apt-fast install cmake
• I'll start with a fresh folder:
  $ sudo rm ~/repos/build_visit/*
  $ cd ~/repos/build_visit
  $ wget https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/releases/download/v3.4.1/build_visit3_4_1
  $ chmod +x build_visit3_4_1
• Made sure to edit the visit installer per @tharman-git :
  $ nano build_visit3_4_1
  • Changed these lines:
    21388: CFLAGS="-std=c++11 $CFLAGS $C_OPT_FLAGS -headerpad_max_install_names" CXXFLAGS="-std=c++11 $CXXFLAGS $CXX_OPT_FLAGS"
    21409: CFLAGS="-std=c++11 $CFLAGS $C_OPT_FLAGS" CXXFLAGS="-std=c++11 $CXXFLAGS $CXX_OPT_FLAGS" \
• Then I ran build_visit with the --cmake flag to get visit to download its own version of cmake
  $ ./build_visit3_4_1 --parallel --uintah --no-icet --mesagl --llvm --no-sphinx --skip-opengl-context-check --cmake --qt6 --vtk9 --visit --makeflags -j20;
• It downloaded cmake 3.24.3
• Built successfully!
• Ran the installer
  $ sudo ./visit-install 3.4.1 linux-intel /usr/local/visit
• Ran visit
  $ cd /usr/local/visit/bin
  $ ./visit
• Generated the same error:
  Running: gui3.4.1
  Running: viewer3.4.1 -geometry 1560x1080+360+0 -borders 26,4,4,4 -shift 0,0 -preshift 4,26 -defer -host 127.0.0.1 -port 5600
  Running: mdserver3.4.1 -host 127.0.0.1 -port 5601
  Unable to find target for this triple (no targets are registered)
  VisIt's viewer exited abnormally! Aborting the Graphical User Interface. VisIt's developers may be reached via our GitHub discussions, https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/discussions