ParaView Ubuntu Docker Image

This docker image contains the Ubuntu paraview package built from source using debuild including build artifacts (in directory /home/paraview/paraview). In this environment, external ParaView plugins can be built, which will then be compatible with the paraview package of the specific Ubuntu version. The plugins can be distributed either as single .so files or as .deb packages, which have the paraview package as dependency.

Prebuilt docker images can be found on Docker Hub. If you want to build your own docker images, see the instructions below.

Usage

An example plugin is provided in shared/example/. The following steps will build this plugin using Ubuntu 18.04.

Start a detached container with name build and with the directory ./shared/ mounted to /mnt/shared

docker run -itd --name build --volume="$(pwd)/shared:/mnt/shared:rw" lhofmann/paraview-ubuntu:18.04

Run cmake and build the target package

docker exec build cmake -B/mnt/shared/build -H/mnt/shared/example 
docker exec build cmake --build /mnt/shared/build --target package

The built plugin will be in shared/build/libExamplePlugin.so and shared/build/Example-0.1.0-Linux.deb.

CMake

For distributing .so files, set CMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH=TRUE in your CMake config. A debian package can be built using CPack by installing the plugin to /usr/lib/paraview/plugins (any .so in this directory is automatically loaded by ParaView). See shared/example/CMakeLists.txt for a full example.

Building the docker images

As default, a Ubuntu 18.04 is built:

docker build --rm -t "paraview-ubuntu:18.04" .

The build argument ubuntu_version can be used to specify the Ubuntu version, for example 16.04:

docker build --rm -t "paraview-ubuntu:16.04" --build-arg ubuntu_version="16.04" .