vcl not being built for VISIT_ENGINE_ONLY=ON

[ghweber]

Hi,

I am trying to build VisIt on Perlmutter at NERSC. Since various X11 libraries are not available in developer version, I cannot build Qt with xcb support. To work around this, I tried to just build the only compute engine backend using VISIT_ENGINE_ONLY=ON. However, there is no vcl executable in the resulting build and I cannot launch VisIt from a remote host. Any ideas what I am missing?

(I was able to get a full VisIt build to work by commenting out xcb related functions in src/winutil/WindowMetrics.C and removing some libraries from CMake/FindVisItQt.cmake. The result is a not-working GUI but I can at least launch the compute engine remotely. However, I would like to do a cleaner build and avoid having to patch VisIt manually when trying to build it.)

[ghweber]

To answer my own question. VISIT_ENGINE_ONLY is not the CMake option I am looking for. The correct option to use is VISIT_SERVER_COMPONENTS_ONLY.