[Ctk-developers] VS2010 support

Thu Aug 4 04:42:12 UTC 2011

+1
Jc

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Julien Finet <julien.finet at kitware.com>wrote:

> Love it :-)
> As soon as it's in, I'll setup some dashboards with that :-)
> Julien.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Sascha Zelzer <
> s.zelzer at dkfz-heidelberg.de> wrote:
>
>> **
>> 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> 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)
>>>
>>> 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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