[ITK-dev] installed ITK cannot be moved due to absolute path

Tue Dec 20 04:48:43 EST 2016

Hello all,

Is there a simple FindITK.cmake which can be used instead of config and
targets cmake files?

in my install tree, in ITKTargets-release.Cmake there exists absolute path
for include and lib file.

My install tree of ITK does not work on a different machine unless I copy
them too exact same directory where I installed on machine.

This goes against portability and it is cmake who is doing this work.

Here is code in ITKTargets-release.cmake

set_property(TARGET ITKMetaIO APPEND PROPERTY IMPORTED_CONFIGURATIONS
RELEASE)
set_target_properties(ITKMetaIO PROPERTIES
  IMPORTED_IMPLIB_RELEASE "${_IMPORT_PREFIX}/lib/ITKMetaIO-4.10.lib"
  IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES_RELEASE
"C:/dashboard/otb/install_sb_x86/lib/zdll.lib;comctl32;wsock32"
  IMPORTED_LOCATION_RELEASE "${_IMPORT_PREFIX}/bin/ITKMetaIO-4.10.dll"
  )

see the absolute path to C:/dashboard/otb/install_sb_x86/lib/zdll.lib

so if on a different machine no matter where I copy these cmake files for
ITK, I must have zdll.lib in C:/dashboard/otb/install_sb_x86/lib/
and same goes for fftw, expat etc.. if enabled.

A simple find_package searching for for include and headers is portable
than config files. Right now even copying the files on same compiler won't
work.
But in reality there is no technical issues.

Is anyone aware of a better way other than manually updating those absolute
path to zdll.lib

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Matt McCormick <matt.mccormick at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Hi Rashad,
>
> It looks like MXE is configured to use system versions of EXPAT, HDF5,
> JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and ZLIB:
>
>   https://github.com/mxe/mxe/blob/4135f9b1227ba56b92ceb8a9820163
> 70ad5c8894/src/itk.mk#L28-L33
>
> USE_SYSTEM could be disabled for these libraries.
>
> Or, it may be possible for the module system to learn relative
> locations of these libraries with ITK_USE_SYSTEM*. But, it would work
> best if these projects were configured with CMake, create a
> <project>Config.cmake or <project>-config.cmake file, and use relative
> paths internally.
>
> HTH,
> Matt
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Rashad Kanavath
> <mohammedrashadkm at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Rashad,
> >>
> >> a few months ago relative paths were completely removed from CMake,
> >> because they were never fully implemented. Have you followed
> recommendations
> >> from here for cross-compiling?
> >
> >
> > Yes. indeed. I had updated the mxe/src/itk.mk for several versions of
> ITK!
> >
> > Regarding relative path in cmake, I don't understand.  I didn't use cmake
> > specific REL_PATH.
> >>
> >>
> >> As for integrating your changes into ITK, you should submit a patch
> >> following the instructions here. If your changes don't break anything,
> they
> >> are likely to be integrated.
> >
> >
> > issue here is a bit different. For all libitk* stuff the story ends well.
> > For thirdparties, zlib, expat etc.. it is good idea to put the full path
> > because we don't know if they are in same install directory as ITK or
> not.
> > But this make the installed cmake modules non-portable even to a
> different
> > location on the same disk.
> >
> > Now if anyone want to provide a distributable setup of ITK. patch the
> > generated cmake files with sed and then copy it. This is what I am doing
> > right now!
> > A simple not perfect solution is to have all thirdparties make
> > <LIBRARY>_PREFIX variable inside the ITKConfig.cmake
> >
> > and for each library we use <LIBRARY>_PREFIX/include and
> > <LIBRARY>_PREFIX/lib
> >
> >
> > Another option is to avoid full path directly inside cmake module files
> and
> > put find_package() calls in the install tree.
> >
> > As these files are autogenerated by cmake, don't know what is possible.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Dženan
> >>
> >> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Rashad Kanavath
> >> <mohammedrashadkm at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello all,
> >>>
> >>> I have some issue when copying ITK install directory to a different
> >>> system. I agree this is not usual and may not appear on a linux distro
> or
> >>> windows.
> >>>
> >>> My requirement is bit different. I cross-compile ITK and then use the
> >>> binaries on Windows. Using dll and headers are fine. But the installed
> cmake
> >>> files are a problem. They have absolute path in ITK-4.8/Modules/*.cmake
> >>> files. It is not in all .cmake files even though I put a wildcard
> there..
> >>>
> >>> For a easy and quick workaround. I rely on mighty sed command to insert
> >>> something into installed cmake file.
> >>>
> >>> For example see this;
> >>> lib/cmake/ITK-4.8/ITKTargets-release.cmake
> >>>
> >>> set(CMAKE_IMPORT_FILE_VERSION 1)
> >>> set(LIB_INSTALL_PREFIX)
> >>> get_filename_component(CURRENT_FILE_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_FILE}"
> >>> PATH)
> >>> get_filename_component(LIB_INSTALL_PREFIX "${CURRENT_FILE_DIR}" PATH)
> >>> get_filename_component(LIB_INSTALL_PREFIX "${LIB_INSTALL_PREFIX}"
> PATH)
> >>> get_filename_component(LIB_INSTALL_PREFIX "${LIB_INSTALL_PREFIX}"
> PATH)
> >>>
> >>> and at last:
> >>>
> >>> $(SED) -i 's,$(PREFIX)/$(TARGET),\${LIB_INSTALL_PREFIX},g'
> >>> 'lib/cmake/ITK-$(ITK_VER)/ITKTargets-release.cmake'
> >>>
> >>> I would like to have this patch inside the other .cmake files in the
> >>> installation and avoid the sed commands during post-installation
> >>>
> >>> Here is the list of cmake files that needs this change.
> >>> lib/cmake/ITK-4.8/ITKTargets-release.cmake
> >>> lib/cmake/ITK-4.8/Modules/ITKZLIB.cmake
> >>> lib/cmake/ITK-4.8/Modules/ITKExpat.cmake
> >>> lib/cmake/ITK-4.8/Modules/ITKHDF5.cmake
> >>> lib/cmake/ITK-4.8/Modules/ITKJPEG.cmake
> >>> lib/cmake/ITK-4.8/Modules/ITKTIFF.cmake
> >>> lib/cmake/ITK-4.8/Modules/ITKPNG.cmake
> >>>
> >>> So is it possible to make the change into future version of ITK?
> >>>
> >>> The major issue here is those cmake files are generated by cmake. Is
> >>> there a way cmake could use relative path ?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Regards,
> >>>    Rashad
> >>>
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> >    Rashad
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-- 
Regards,
   Rashad
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