[vtkusers] VTK 5.8 + CMake: "target platform does not support dynamic linking."

[Nico Schlömer]

Hi,

I'm on an early release of Ubuntu 12.10 and noticed that VTK might
have problems here.

$ sudo apt-get install libvtk5-dev

installs fine. When trying to write an application that uses VTK and
manage it with CMake, the typical CMakeLists.txt would look like

CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 2.8)
FIND_PACKAGE(VTK REQUIRED)
PROJECT(test CXX)

And indeed, VTK is correctly found under /usr/lib/vtk-5.8/VTKConfig.cmake.
Upon actually creating the Makefiles howver, CMake will complain that

CMake Warning (dev) at /usr/lib/vtk-5.8/VTKTargets.cmake:244 (ADD_LIBRARY):
  ADD_LIBRARY called with SHARED option but the target platform does not
  support dynamic linking.  Building a STATIC library instead.  This may lead
  to problems.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/lib/vtk-5.8/VTKConfig.cmake:200 (INCLUDE)
  /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindVTK.cmake:73 (FIND_PACKAGE)
  CMakeLists.txt:4 (FIND_PACKAGE)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it
What does this warning mean and how is it dealt with?

This refers to the (seemingly correct?) line

ADD_LIBRARY(vtkChartsTCL SHARED IMPORTED)

Has anyone else experienced this before, or knows a workaround?

Cheers,
Nico