[Insight-developers] ITK, ITK_USE_SYSTEM_DCMTK, and CMake

[Matt McCormick]

Brilliant.  Some up front end work on a proper DCMTKConfig.cmake is
going to solve a lot of issues and save many future headaches.

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Williams, Norman K
<norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu> wrote:
> I'm trying to do a few things all at once:
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> 1. Enhance the DCMTK Cmake build system to generate propler
> DCMTKConfig.cmake & other files such that
> find_package(DCMTK NO_MODULE) works properly.
>
> 2. Get ITK to use find_package(DCMTK NO_MODULE), primarily so that all the
> libraries DCMTK depends on are linked in to programs/libraries that use
> ITK.
>
> #2 seems to not work, in odd ways: when a program (in my case DWIConvert
> in the BRAINSStandAlone project) links to ITK libraries and uses DCMTK,
> all the DCMTK libraries are added to the link command, but not ZLIB,
> though DCMTK seems to properly report the DCMTK ZLIB dependency.
>
> If you're interested in looking at my work in DCMTK, it's in the branch of
> AddProperConfig here: https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/DCMTK
>
> Fun fact: If you turn on --trace when you run CMake to configure ITK, it
> generates 11 megabytes and 95,726 lines of output.
>
> --
> Kent Williams norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu
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