[Insight-users] MFC + ITK + VTK + CMake

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Zhao,

In order to use MFC in your project you just
need to add the following lines to the
CMakeLists.txt file:

    ADD_DEFINITIONS(-D_AFXDLL)
    SET(CMAKE_MFC_FLAG 6)

Also, make sure that you add the file

      StdAfx.cpp

to the list of sources,
like for example:

SET( SRCS
  mySourceFile1.pp
  mySourceFile2.pp
  mySourceFile3.pp
  StdAfx.cpp
)

ADD_EXECUTABLE(MyExecutable  WIN32 ${SRCS} )

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For using ITK  you need to add


FIND_PACKAGE(ITK)
IF(ITK_FOUND)
   INCLUDE(${ITK_USE_FILE})
ELSE(ITK_FOUND)
   MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR
           "Cannot build InsightApplications without ITK.  Please set 
ITK_DIR.")
ENDIF(ITK_FOUND)

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For using VTK you need to add

FIND_PACKAGE(VTK)
IF (VTK_FOUND)
   INCLUDE (${VTK_USE_FILE})
ELSE(VTK_FOUND)
   MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR
           "Cannot build InsightApplications without ITK.  Please set 
VTK_DIR.")
ENDIF(VTK_FOUND)


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About your first question:

The project generated by CMake will be better than the
one you can generate manually from the VisualStudio GUI
because:

1) It will be consistant
2) It will be reproducible
3) It will be portable
4) It will be readable


Trying to configure by hand a project is simply a waste
of time. Using CMake you should be up and running in less
than an hour.


Please let us know if you encounter any problem.


Thanks


    Luis


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zhao yong qiang wrote:
> Hi Luis,
>    two questions:
>    1.you told me no matter what compiler i use, i need to use CMake.but when i use MSVC, it helps us to build a project. do this project and the project built by CMake have difference? if they do, what difference?
>    2. In MSVC, how to combine MFC and ITK class? and how i combine VTK and ITK to run  effectively ?
> 
> Thanks a lot!!!
> 
> Regards, 
>                           Zhao Yongqiang
>                           Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
>                           Shanghai JiaoTong University
>                           Shanghai, China
>                           zhao-yq@cs.sjtu.edu.cn