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===Repository===
The Subversion repository is located at http://www.kitware.com/svn/NetDMF.

svn co http://www.kitware.com/svn/NetDMF

Turn on NetDMF_USE_PARAVIEW and build

== Build Instructions == 

===Build with MS Visual Studio on Windows===
WinPcap library is needed to build and run NetDMF on Windows. 

The development version library, required to compile. 
http://www.winpcap.org/devel.htm

The auto-installer of binary, required to run
http://www.winpcap.org/install/default.htm

Make sure the same version development library and installer are used. The binary (dll) could be built from the source, but it may take some efforts.

* Known issues:

If "XDMF_WRAP_PYTHON" is ON and "XDMF_REGENERATE_WRAPPER" is ON, there will be a linking error of not finding

debug version of python library when building "Debug". This is a well-known python "bug/feature" with visual studio debug build.

The work around currently is to modify XdmfPython.cxx or XdmfPythonNoMPI.cxx in the binary directory, where "Python.h" is included,

  #if defined(WIN32)
  # ifdef _DEBUG
  #  undef _DEBUG
  #  if defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER >= 1400
  #    define _CRT_NOFORCE_MANIFEST 1
  #  endif
  #  include <Python.h>
  #  define _DEBUG
  # else
  #  include <Python.h>
  # endif
  #else
  # include <Python.h>
  #endif

=== Build instructions for visualizing graphs in Paraview3 ===
''TableToGraphPanel'' plugin is off and commented by default. In ''src/Plugins/CMakeLists.txt'' uncomment the line below and replace OFF by ON (or run ccmake / cmake and turn it on there).

<code>
paraview_build_optional_plugin(TableToGraphPanel "TableToGraphPanel" TableToGraphPanel ON) 
</code>

'''Update''': As of April 28, 2010 changes to  ''src/Plugins/CMakeLists.txt'' in ParaView is not required anymore. This panel plugin is now copied over to NetDMF and hence became part of 
NetDMFPlugin.