VTK/Tutorials/CMakeListsFileForQt4
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project(application)
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.0)
find_package(VTK REQUIRED)
include(${VTK_USE_FILE})
find_package(Qt4 REQUIRED)
include(${QT_USE_FILE})
# support for out-of-source build
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
)
set(SRC
optionsDialog.h optionsDialog.cpp
main.cpp
mainwindow.h mainwindow.cpp
application.qrc
)
set(MOC optionsDialog.h mainwindow.h )
set(UI optionsDialog.ui mainwindow.ui)
set(RCC application.qrc )
qt4_wrap_cpp(MOC_GENERATED ${MOC})
qt4_wrap_ui(UI_GENERATED ${UI})
qt4_add_resources(RCC_GENERATED ${RCC})
source_group("Form Files" FILES ${UI} )
source_group("Resource Files" FILES ${RCC} )
source_group("Generated Files" FILES ${MOC_GENERATED} ${UI_GENERATED} ${RCC_GENERATED} )
add_executable(application
${SRC}
${MOC_GENERATED} ${UI_GENERATED} ${RCC_GENERATED} )
target_link_libraries(application ${QT_LIBRARIES} QVTK ) # QVTK is for VTK 5.x. For VTK 6, use ${VTK_LIBRARIES} instead
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Make cmake to find VTK and Qt4 library and include UseVTK.cmake and UseQt4.cmake, where useful settings are defined.
find_package(VTK REQUIRED)
include(${VTK_USE_FILE})
find_package(Qt4 REQUIRED)
include(${QT_USE_FILE})
Tell cmake to include additional header directories for out-of-sorce build
# support for out-of-source build
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
)
Make cmake to define SRC for all source files, MOC for meta-compiling (class with Q_OBJECT), UI for form files,RCC for resource files.
set(SRC
optionsDialog.h optionsDialog.cpp
main.cpp
mainwindow.h mainwindow.cpp
application.qrc
)
set(MOC optionsDialog.h mainwindow.h )
set(UI optionsDialog.ui mainwindow.ui)
set(RCC application.qrc )
Setting up for Qt preprocessing : moc.exe, ui.exe, rcc.exe
qt4_wrap_cpp(MOC_GENERATED ${MOC})
qt4_wrap_ui(UI_GENERATED ${UI})
qt4_add_resources(RCC_GENERATED ${RCC})
Assign filters. Optional, but useful.
source_group("Form Files" FILES ${UI} )
source_group("Resource Files" FILES ${RCC} )
source_group("Generated Files" FILES ${MOC_GENERATED} ${UI_GENERATED} ${RCC_GENERATED} )
Tell cmake the project "application"'s source files include all generated files and required libaries.
add_executable(application
${SRC}
${MOC_GENERATED} ${UI_GENERATED} ${RCC_GENERATED} )
target_link_libraries(application ${QT_LIBRARIES} QVTK ) # QVTK is for VTK 5.x. For VTK 6, use ${VTK_LIBRARIES} instead
In MSVC, WIN32 and $(QT_QTMAIN_LIBRARY} are required to remove dummy console window, as follows:
add_executable(application WIN32
${SRC}
${MOC_GENERATED} ${UI_GENERATED} ${RCC_GENERATED} )
target_link_libraries(application ${QT_LIBRARIES} ${QT_QTMAIN_LIBRARY} QVTK ) # QVTK is for VTK 5.x. For VTK 6, use ${VTK_LIBRARIES} instead