Template:VTKCMakeLists

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CMakeLists.txt

<syntaxhighlight lang="cmake"> cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)

PROJECT({{{1}}})

find_package(VTK REQUIRED) include(${VTK_USE_FILE})

add_executable({{{1}}} MACOSX_BUNDLE {{{1}}}.cxx)

if(VTK_LIBRARIES)

 target_link_libraries({{{1}}} ${VTK_LIBRARIES})

else()

 target_link_libraries({{{1}}} vtkHybrid vtkWidgets)

endif() </syntaxhighlight>

Download and Build {{{1}}}

Click here to download {{{1}}}. and its CMakeLists.txt file.

Once the tarball {{{1}}}.tar has been downloaded and extracted,

cd {{{1}}}/build 

• If VTK is installed:

cmake ..

• If VTK is not installed but compiled on your system, you will need to specify the path to your VTK build:

cmake -DVTK_DIR:PATH=/home/me/vtk_build ..

Build the project:

make

and run it:

./{{{1}}}

WINDOWS USERS PLEASE NOTE: Be sure to add the VTK bin directory to your path. This will resolve the VTK dll's at run time.