[Insight-users] switching debug and release build of itk build

[Alfonso Castro Martinez]

Are there important differences, I am thinking in development, between
compile ITK (ccmake and make) and install (ccmake and make and make
install) ?

Thanks.

Alfonso Castro Martinez
Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies
Faculty of Computer Science
University of A Coruña


El mié, 28-03-2007 a las 17:35 +0200, Xavier Mellado Esteban escribió:
>    Dear Felix:
> 
>    I am sorry, but for me, it is difficult to figure out what happens 
> with this information. The way you include ITK in your project, it is 
> not the usual one. Let me explain how I would do this.
> 
> 1) Building
> 
>    Uncompress ITK in any folder, for example: 
> /home/felix/InsightToolkit-3-2-0
> 
>    cd /home/felix/InsightToolkit-3-2-0
>    mkdir bin
>    cd bin
>    mkdir release
>    mkdir debug
> 
>    (so you have /home/felix/InsightToolkit-3-2-0/bin/release and 
> /home/felix/InsightToolkit-3-2-0/bin/debug)
> 
>    cd release
>    ccmake ../..
> 
>    Set CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to Release
> 
>    Configure, generate and compile.
> 
>    You can do the same with debug, go to 
> /home/felix/InsightToolkit-3-2-0/bin/debug folder and set 
> CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to Debug. Configure, generate and compile.
> 
>    If you want to install it, I suggest you to install at "/opt" . If 
> you go to the release folder "make install" will create 
> /opt/InsightToolkit-3-2-0, rename it to 
> /opt/InsightToolkit-3-2-0-Release and do the same with debug, in order 
> to create /opt/InsightToolkit-3-2-0-Debug. If you want to be more 
> elegant, you can also create soft links with:
> 
>    ln -s InsightToolkit-3-2-0-Release ITK
>    ln -s InsightToolkit-3-2-0-Debug ITK-Debug
> 
>    This will create /opt/ITK (release mode) and /opt/ITK-Debug (debug 
> mode), so you will be able to change ITK version only installing a new 
> version and changing the soft link, other users will not notice that...
> 
>    Now ITK is compiled and installed.
> 
> 2) Including ITK
> 
>    Go to your project CMakeLists.txt and add the following lines.
> 
>    FIND_PACKAGE(ITK)
>    IF(ITK_FOUND)
>       INCLUDE(${ITK_USE_FILE})
>    ELSE(ITK_FOUND)
>       MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR "Please set ITK_DIR.")
>    ENDIF(ITK_FOUND)
> 
>    This code, usually, will give you an error at project configuration, 
> asking for ITK folder. Set ITK_DIR to /opt/ITK/lib/InsightToolkit
> 
>    If you only include UseITK.cmake you are missing ITKConfig.cmake that 
> is the one that sets most of the settings needed for build something 
> against ITK.
> 
>                             I hope this helps you:
>                                                                     Xavi
> 
> 
> 
> Felix Bollenbeck escribió:
> > Xavier,
> > yes, when i moved the Debug build and changed CMakelists.txt
> >
> > INCLUDE(/home/felix/Desktop/InsightDebug/UseITK.cmake)
> >
> > I cant link too:
> >
> > ...
> > /home/felix/lad/main.cpp:45:22: error: itkImage.h: No such file or 
> > directory
> > ...
> >
> > Did i miss some vital points about using cmake?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Felix.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Xavier Mellado Esteban schrieb:
> >>
> >>   Dear Felix:
> >>
> >>   Did you build debug at the same folder than the older release?
> >>
> >>   If so, all libs have been overwrote (you will need to compile again 
> >> in release, I suggest you to build release and debug libs in 
> >> separated folders).
> >>
> >>   If not, it's very strange, try to move the debug folder to another 
> >> place and use the release folder, in order to know if there is 
> >> "something" that mess your compilations (if something under release 
> >> folder points to debug folder, you have move it, and when you try to 
> >> configure or build it will crash), and let us know...
> >>
> >>                    I hope this helps you:
> >>                                                        Xavi
> >>
> >> Felix Bollenbeck escribió:
> >>> Hi ITKers,
> >>>
> >>> I build ITK for debug after building a release type. debugging my 
> >>> tries with kdevelop works fine. now I would like to test my code 
> >>> with the release build.
> >>>
> >>> I tried naive setting the Include directive in CMakelists.txt to
> >>>
> >>> InsightReleaseBuild/UseITK.cmake
> >>>
> >>> which didnt work. How can I link the (older) release build?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>>    felix.
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> >>
> >>
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
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