[Insight-users] ITKWikiExamples requiring VTK-5.5

[Juan Cardelino]

Here you have, I tried to toggle testing off, and also verified the
main CMakeLists.txt looking for a vtk version but without any luck

> cmake .
CMake Error at CMake/ExamplesTesting.cmake:21 (MESSAGE):
  Need VTK version 5.5 or greater to include the necessary
  vtkTestingObjectFactory.cmake
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  Curves/CMakeLists.txt:25 (INCLUDE)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!


On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:33 PM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Juan Cardelino
> <juan.cardelino at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>           I'm trying to build ITKWikiExamples, and I was surprised to
>> see that required VTK 5.5. In my case, I use ITK from GIT but I'm not
>> interested on using VTK from GIT. I'd rather use the VTK version
>> packaged with ubuntu (5.4). Will it be always like this (not having
>> any backward compatibility), or you are asking for this only because a
>> certain change from 5.4 to 5.5? It doesn't make any sense to me to
>> download and compile VTK just to see a couple of ITK examples. Maybe a
>> way to enable/disable some features will alleviate this.
>> Any possible workarounds? Apart from the obvious extracting the
>> examples from the directory and compiling them myself.
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Best regards,
>>                  Juan
>>
>
> Can you show us the error you're getting?
>
> The top level CMakeLists.txt does not seem to require a particular VTK version:
>
> FIND_PACKAGE(VTK REQUIRED)
>
> The process will soon be slightly different because the ITKVTKGlue
> stuff is getting moved into an ITK module instead of living in the
> ExamplesWiki repository.
>