[Insight-users] Shared libraries

[Zachary Pincus]

Hello,

I'm hoping that by using the shared libraries build for ITK, I can cut 
down on compile times and executable size for my projects because every 
single project I compile won't have to instantiate from template common 
combinations of image and pixel types, etc.

Is this in fact the case -- do the shared libraries contain 
instantiations of commonly-templated class combinations? If so, how 
does one instruct the compiler to look in  a library before 
instantiating from a template (or does cmake take care of that)?

Or am I totally misapprehending what the shared libraries are for? If 
I'm mistaken, I would be most interested in someone enlightening me 
about the purpose of the shared library option.

Zach Pincus

Department of Biochemistry and Program in Biomedical Informatics
Stanford University School of Medicine