[Ctk-developers] VS2010 support

[Sascha Zelzer]

Yes, could be handy.

In each CMakeExternals/*.cmake script we could check for a CMake 
variable <project_name>_REVISION_TAG and if it exists (i.e. manually 
added in the CMake GUI or in a dart-client script) we use this one 
instead of the default.

Does that make sense?

- Sascha

On 08/03/2011 04:44 PM, Julien Finet wrote:
> That sounds fine by me, however, I think we should have some way to 
> optionally specify a custom tag ?
> So that we could have dashboards (on a next branch?) running with 
> external bleeding edge branches.
>
> Julien.
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Sascha Zelzer 
> <s.zelzer at dkfz-heidelberg.de <mailto:s.zelzer at dkfz-heidelberg.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi again,
>
>     thanks to JC (who forwarded my post to the CMake mailing list) I
>     could identify the problem (for details, see
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.user/37472
>     ).
>
>     Essentially, supplying a GIT_TAG argument together with a
>     UPDATE_COMMAND (could also be the default update command, which
>     may be non-empty) in the ExternalProject_Add() macro call will
>     skip all steps after the update step in Visual Studio 2010.
>
>     This problem actually reveals some "issues" with our scripts in
>     the CMakeExternals directory. I would like to suggest the following:
>
>     1.) Projects which are hosted on github/commontk
>
>     I would prefer to keep GIT_TAG origin/patched or similar, but
>     until the bug is fixed, we could specify a specific SHA1 value and
>     add UPDATE_COMMAND ""
>
>     This affects: CTKData, Log4Qt, PythonQt, QtSOAP, ZMQ (although
>     hosted at github.com/patrickcheng/zmq2
>     <http://github.com/patrickcheng/zmq2>)
>
>     2.) True external projects
>
>     Here I would actually prefer GIT_TAG origin/tag where "tag" points
>     to a release version. The relevant projects are:
>
>     - DCMTK: we already use a fixed tag, just needs UPDATE_COMMAND ""
>     - ITK: Use GIT_TAG v3.20.0
>     - VTK: If I rember correctly, the CTK VTK widgets need a very
>     recent VTK, so use a fixed SHA1 instead of origin/master
>
>
>     I made these changes locally and successfully compiled CTK (I
>     enabled everything without Python support) with VS2010 SP1.
>
>     What do you think?
>
>
>     Thanks,
>     Sascha
>
>
>
>     On 07/22/2011 06:07 PM, Sascha Zelzer wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         there is something very strange going on. The generated VS
>         2010 projects
>         (I am using the Express editions, 32bit) for the external
>         dependencies
>         like DCMTK, Log4Qt, etc. only call the download step of the
>         ExternalProject_add call in our superbuild scripts. The
>         projects are not
>         configured and build.
>
>         Did anybody experience the same? I tried with and without the
>         VS 2010
>         SP1 and with CMake 2.8.4 and 2.8.5.
>
>         Thanks,
>         Sascha
>
>         On 07/22/2011 01:39 PM, Sascha Zelzer wrote:
>
>             Hi Folks,
>
>             I would like to get Visual Studio 2010 compatibility for CTK.
>
>             Currently, it looks like I will have to copy
>             ExternalProject.cmake to
>             CTK for the CMAKE_CACHE_ARGS argument. Then a couple of small
>             modifications should do.
>
>             Any other ideas or objections?
>
>             Thanks,
>
>             Sascha
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