[Insight-users] linking sequence of itk libraries

[Feng Ma]

Hi, Luis:

  Really appreciate your quick helps. I was using cmake to make my top level 
functions which calls itk functions.  It is true that cmake ease of pain of 
makefile generation a lot.

>From: Luis Ibanez <luis . ibanez at kitware . com>
>To: Feng Ma <mafeng at hotmail . com>
>CC: insight-users at itk . org
>Subject: Re: [Insight-users] linking sequence of itk libraries
>Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 23:04:52 -0400
>
>Hi Feng,
>
>The order of libraries on the link line does matter on Unix.
>
>If library A depends on library B,
>                         then library A should go first on the link line.
>
>You wouldn't have to worry about these details if you
>where using CMake for configuring your project.
>
>With CMake you can get the same link line by just writing the
>following line in your  CMakeLists.txt file.
>
>TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES( myExecutable    ITKIO   pthread  )
>
>CMake is smart enough to pull the rest of the dependencies.
>For example it will know that
>
>1) ITKIO depends on ITKCommon (so CMake will add ITKCommon to the link 
>line).
>2) ITKIO depends on itkpng, and itkpng depends on itkzlib (so CMake will 
>add itkpng
>                                                         and itkzlib to the 
>link line).
>and so on...
>
>BTW if you are just building the Dicom parser example, you don't need
>ITKFEM (which is a library for Finite Elements), nor ITKWrapper.
>nor ITKStatistics. Just the three libraries in the TARGET_LINK
>command shown above.
>
>---
>
>There are good reasons why CMake came into existance.
>
>One of them is that it is more fun to do Image Processing than to
>fiddle around with the order of libraries in a link list        :-)
>
>Please use CMake,
>and start enjoying ITK
>
>
>Regards,
>
>
>    Luis
>
>
>----------------------
>Feng Ma wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>  I am working on to link ITK libraries to our existing code.  I 
>>understand ITKCommon library should appear first. Does sequences of other 
>>libraries matter?
>>
>>  I put it like this:
>>
>>  -lpthread -L/ITK/lib/InsightToolkit/ -lITKCommon -lITKDICOMParser 
>>-lITKEXPAT -lITKFEM -ITKMetaIO -litknetlib -lITKNumerics -litkpng 
>>-lITKStatistics -litksys -lITKVHDIO -lITKIO -lITKBasicFilters 
>>-lITKAlgorithms -litkvnl -litkvnl_algo -litkzlib -lpthread 
>>-L/ITKWrapper/lib -lITKWrapper
>>
>>  There is still a lot of undefined reference to itk objects.
>>
>>  Thanks a lot for helping out.
>>
>>-Feng
>>
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