[Insight-developers] ITK/CMake q: Can I make a module depend on an ExternalProject target?

[Williams, Norman K]

Thanks a lot -- this is the sort of information I need. I can see that
ITK's CMake Module based infrastructure has some snazzy features.  Is it
documented on the WIKI somewhere?


On 5/30/12 2:30 PM, "Brad King" <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:

>On 05/30/2012 03:13 PM, Williams, Norman K wrote:
>> That would be OK if we were to always require and ExternalDCMTK.  It
>>won't
>> work if we want to optionally use ExternalProject to build DCMTK.  You
>>can
>> build an ExternalProject to pull in a library, if there's nothing that
>> needs to be built before CMake configuration?
>
>If the suggestion I made elsewhere in this thread doesn't work out,
>you can at least include itkExternal_DCMTK.cmake from
>Modules/IO/DCMTK/itk-module-init.cmake instead of modifying the
>top-level CMakeLists.txt to include it.
>
>To answer the original question, you need
>
>  if(TARGET dcmtk)
>    add_dependencies(ITKIODCMTK dcmtk)
>  endif()
>
>in Modules/IO/DCMTK/src/CMakeLists.txt to make sure the external
>project builds before the library that needs it.
>
>-Brad



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