[Insight-users] [vtkusers] VtkGlue requires VTK 5.9

[Bill Lorensen]

The VtkGlue in ITKv4 will not build on earlier versions of VTK. This
has to do with the way VTK used to handle metaio configuration.

It must remain an error.

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:38 PM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/3/2 Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com>:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I pulled the latest git version of ITK4, and during CMake configure step I
>> get the following error:
>> ERROR VtkGlue requires VTK version 5.9.20110419 or newer but the current
>> version is 5.6.1
>> The ITK project can still be generated, and is built without errors, and
>> even the project linking it is built without errors. Which brings me to the
>> question: should this "error" even be displayed?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dženan
>
> My guess would be that there are other parts of the module that
> require a newer version and that you just might not be using any of
> them? In this case it might be more appropriate to output something
> more like "WARNING: Some parts of VtkGlue require VTK version
> 5.9.20110419 or newer but the current version is 5.6.1". That would be
> the easy fix - the harder fix would be to figure out which parts
> require this version and only output the error if they are actually
> attempted to be used.
>
> David
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