[Insight-users] using boost with ITK

[Mark Roden]

OK, but does anyone have any ideas on how to do it just in my own
programs where the sln file is made by cmake?  That's my real goal.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> At this point, I don't think we want to add a boost dependency to itk.
> There is a ongoing i18n effort to address the file system problems.
>
> Bill
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Mark Roden <mmroden at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I want to write some of my own programs using the cmake paradigm in
>> ITK.  I figure I should just do it rather than being a terrible whiner
>> (see my earlier posts about cmake....)
>>
>> So far, I'm putting my programs into the Experimental directory, and
>> then everything seems to build fine, except for some file system calls
>> to scan a directory.  I want to combine some of the Insight Journal
>> articles into a specific pipeline that's run entirely within a C++
>> program, and that requires interacting with the filesystem (ie,
>> getting directory listings and the like).  It turns out, Windows has
>> two ways to do this, depending on whether or not the program was built
>> in a 64bit platform or a 32bit platform.
>>
>> That's not going to fly, because I just want this stuff to work
>> without having to add a new #define for each operating system I come
>> across.  So, I want to add boost.filesystem to my little island of ITK
>> to properly interact with directories across platforms.  That library
>> has a 'path' object that just works, regardless of OS.
>>
>> As a side note, I notice that several of the articles are using char*
>> for filenames, and that was my problem as well-- win7 64bit apparently
>> needs wchar_t, not char, so that code needs to be modified to work
>> properly.  Some of the IO classes (notably GDCMImageIO and
>> ImageFileWriter) depend on char* rather than wide chars, and I think
>> that a good step to complete compatibility would be to update that to
>> use the boost.filesystem.path.  While I realize that that will
>> probably be quite a bit of work, it would definitely stick within the
>> mission of being fully cross-platform, and as I understand it,
>> boost.filesystem will be part of the C++ standard in TR2.
>>
>> So how about it?  How do I use boost.filesystem from a cmake-built itk
>> program placed in the Review directory?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
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