19. Building

In this chapter, we will discuss how to build visit. The building of VisIt is automated with the build_visit script. It will build VisIt and all of VisIt’s third party libraries. It can be configured to build VisIt with a minimum of third party libraries to building VisIt with all of it’s third party libraries. This chapter describes how to build VisIt, starting with the most simple case and moving then moving to more complex use cases.

• 19.1. Basic Usage
  • 19.1.1. Doing a minimal build
  • 19.1.2. Building with multiple cores
  • 19.1.3. Specifying the third party library install location
  • 19.1.4. Building with the HDF5 and Silo libraries
  • 19.1.5. Building the stable optional libraries
  • 19.1.6. Using a VisIt source code tar file
  • 19.1.7. If build_visit is interrupted
  • 19.1.8. Finishing up
• 19.2. Advanced Usage
  • 19.2.1. Building a parallel version
  • 19.2.2. Building with Mesa as the OpenGL implementation
  • 19.2.3. The difference between --mesagl and --osmesa
  • 19.2.4. Building on a system without internet access
  • 19.2.5. Different versions of build_visit
  • 19.2.6. Troubleshooting build_visit failures
• 19.3. Common Build Scenarios
  • 19.3.1. Kickit, a RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 system
  • 19.3.2. Quartz, a Linux X86_64 TOSS3 cluster
  • 19.3.3. Lassen, a Linux Power9 BlueOS cluster
  • 19.3.4. Cori, a Cray KNL cluster
  • 19.3.5. Summit, a Linux Power9 BlueOS cluster
  • 19.3.6. Trinity, a Cray KNL cluster