build_visit option for building on a server with cli capabilities

visit-dav / visit

VisIt - Visualization and Data Analysis for Mesh-based Scientific Data

https://visit.llnl.gov

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build_visit option for building on a server with cli capabilities #5648

Open biagas opened 3 years ago

biagas commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem?

From SRE 249 --server-components-only does not allow the cli to be built.

Client would like an option to allow cli with --server-components-only to provide scripting and offscreen rendering capabilities on a cluster. No GUI build, no windows popping up.

brugger1 commented 3 years ago

We should add controls to allow fine grain control over the different components. When someone works on this, they should submit a proposal to the developers.

biagas commented 2 years ago

I made a quick attempt at allowing the cli to be built when --server-components-only is specified. Needed to allow viewer's proxy to build as well in order for the cli to compile Visit compiled without errors after that, but when I tried to run 'visit -cli -nowin', I received an error message that the viewer didn't exist.

Cannot add the viewer lib to the build without Qt, as it has several Qt dependencies.

svtcli commented 10 months ago

that would be a good thing to have. I don't think this is possible as today

If a dev could point out the proper locations on the build_visit, it might be doable.