Offline rendering in ParaView

ParaView allows to use offline rendering when using mesa (see this link).

To do so, first build mesa:

# Download mesa from: ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/ (as of today 11.0.2)
# Extract
# Configure with:
autoreconf -fi
./configure \
    CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC -g -DDEFAULT_SOFTWARE_DEPTH_BITS=31" \
    CFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC -g -DDEFAULT_SOFTWARE_DEPTH_BITS=31" \
    --disable-xvmc \
    --disable-glx \
    --disable-dri \
    --with-dri-drivers="" \
    --with-gallium-drivers="swrast" \
    --enable-texture-float \
    --disable-shared-glapi \
    --disable-egl \
    --with-egl-platforms="" \
    --enable-gallium-osmesa \
    --enable-gallium-llvm=yes \
    --enable-llvm-shared-libs \
    --enable-shared=yes \
    --disable-gles1 \
    --disable-gles2 \
    --prefix=/data/software/install/mesa/11.0.2/gcc-4.9.0

make -j 32 install

Set up the correct library paths and PKG_CONFIG_PATH to the mesa libraries (using module for example). Install it in the same dir as osmesa -> easier Then build glu:

# Download from ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/
# Extract
# Configure and build
CFLAGS="-fPIC -O2" CXXFLAGS="-fPIC -O2" ./configure --enable-osmesa=yes --prefix=/data/software/install/mesa/11.0.2/gcc-4.9.0 --enable-shared=yes
make -j 32 install

Set up the correct library paths for Glu.

Then build ParaView:

export MESA_INSTALL_PREFIX=...

cmake /data/software/src/ParaView/ParaView-v4.4.0-source \
-DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_CATALYST=ON -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON=ON \
-DPARAVIEW_INSTALL_DEVELOPMENT_FILES=ON -DPARAVIEW_USE_MPI=ON \
-DPARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI=OFF \
-DVTK_USE_X=OFF \
-DOPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR=${MESA_INSTALL_PREFIX}/include \
-DOPENGL_gl_LIBRARY=${MESA_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/libOSMesa.so \
-DOPENGL_glu_LIBRARY=${MESA_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/libGLU.so \
-DVTK_OPENGL_HAS_OSMESA=ON \
-DOSMESA_INCLUDE_DIR=${MESA_INSTALL_PREFIX}/include \
-DOSMESA_LIBRARY=${MESA_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/libOSMesa.so \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/data/software/install/ParaView/4.4.0-mesa/gcc-4.9.0/openmpi-1.8.5