[Insight-developers] ITK Modular: mingw build problem

[Bill Lorensen]

I think that gcc supports reading command line options from a file.
Maybe someone can check into that.

Having to always use an installed version is a pain for developers.


On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
> Bill,
>
> The real problem is that ITK should be used from an installed
> directory instead of a build directory.
>
> As more modules are added, that list of "-I" is just going to get
> longer and longer (that is not scalable).
>
> By installing ITK, (even if it is done in a user local directory),
> all the .h and .txx will go to a flat directory, and then a single
> -I will be needed (except for the third party libraries, of which
> VXL is the largest provider of -I entries, something that we
> probably would like to fix).
>
> ---
>
> Of course, we need to first fix the installation process, before
> we encourage users to always install ITK before using it.
>
>
>      Luis
>
>
> ------------------------------------------
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Before modularization a flags.make file contained 4266 characters,
>> after 10029 characters.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am using the MinGW Makefiles generator, I get the error with both
>>> make and mingw32-make
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I am trying to build the ITK Wiki Examples against ITK Modular.
>>>>
>>>> Everything configured fine.
>>>>
>>>> On mingw, when I do "make", I get:
>>>>
>>>> $ make
>>>> Scanning dependencies of target ItkVtkGlue
>>>> [  0%] Building CXX object
>>>> ItkVtkGlue/CMakeFiles/ItkVtkGlue.dir/QuickView.cxx.obj
>>>> The input line is too long.
>>>> make[2]: *** [ItkVtkGlue/CMakeFiles/ItkVtkGlue.dir/QuickView.cxx.obj] Error 255
>>>> make[1]: *** [ItkVtkGlue/CMakeFiles/ItkVtkGlue.dir/all] Error 2
>>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>>
>>>> I suspect this is because the flags.make file has a very long line.
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>>>
>>>
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