[ITK Community] Integrating ITK into our own SDK

[Andras Lasso]

The main advantage of Debug/Release/etc. directories on Windows is that you don't need to reconfigure your project if you switch  between different build modes, so don't go back to CMake to change any options. A solution is to leave the install prefix alone and specify a common CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY for all projects. See an example here that works for Win/Linux/Mac for both pre-built and external project ITK:
https://www.assembla.com/code/plus/subversion/nodes/3228/trunk/PlusBuild/External_ITK.cmake

Andras

-----Original Message-----
From: Community [mailto:community-bounces at itk.org] On Behalf Of Michael Jackson
Sent: March 13, 2014 10:36 AM
To: Matt McCormick
Cc: community at itk.org
Subject: Re: [ITK Community] Integrating ITK into our own SDK

So that didn't work. Here is what I tried. On windows (VS2013 Pro) I configured ITK to have an install prefix of C:/Developer/x64/ITK/Debug, configured, built in Debug and installed. I then went back to CMake and reset the install prefix to C:/Developer/x64/ITK/Release, configured, built in Release and installed.

Now I exported the ITK_DIR environment variable as C:/Developer/x64/ITK and tried to configure our own project and it fails to find ITK because CMake can not find the *.cmake files that ITK would normally install but since the ITK_DIR really points to a directory above there it _really_ should point it does not work.

So, back to my original question. how do developers on Windows, specifically Visual Studio, develop against ITK? Do they just configure ITK and build in place and then just point their projects to the ITK Build directory? I am hesitant to try to work with Static Libraries as our project uses plugins and there can be cross-talk among the plugins. So if we have multiple Developers writing multiple plugins where each plugin links agains their own ITK I am foreseeing trouble in the future with that setup (Again on Windows)..

Has anyone else ever made this type of request of ITK in the past? 

Thoughts and Suggestions are Welcome?

--
Mike Jackson


On Mar 12, 2014, at 3:27 PM, Matt McCormick <matt.mccormick at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Michael Jackson <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
> So what you are suggesting is that when I build ITK I would build ITK In Debug and then install to (for example) C:/ITK/Debug and when building in Release install to C:/ITK/Release?
> 
> Yeap.
>  
> 
> Would that mess up the actual use of
> find_package(ITK) in my own project? Would find_package(ITK) actually be able to distinguish between the Debug and Release builds?
> 
> 
> It would work best with two builds of the project.
> 
> HTH,
> Matt 

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