[Insight-developers] LaTeX Tutorial / Examples / CMake

[Stephen R. Aylward]

How about one called "GettingStarted" or is that the Installation dir?

This dir could contain the set of examples that build outside of the ITK 
dir.

Stephen

Luis Ibanez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Following the thread on the reorganization
> of the Examples directory.
> 
> Here is a sketch of how it will look:
> 
> Examples
> |-- DataRepresentation
> |   |-- Image
> |   |   |-- Cxx
> |   |   |   `-- Image1.cxx
> |   |   `-- Tcl
> |   |       `-- Image1.tcl
> |   `-- Mesh
> |-- Filtering
> |-- GUI
> |-- IO
> |-- Infrastructure
> |-- Installation
> |-- Iterators
> |   `-- Cxx
> |       |-- CMakeLists.txt
> |       `-- Iterator1.cxx
> |-- Registration
> `-- Segmentation
> 
> 
> This directories are being referenced
> directly form the Latex documents of the
> Tutorial. In this way we can make sure
> that the code in the document match
> exactly the code that is compiled.
> The \verbatiminput Latex command is used
> to include the source code into Latex
> files.
> 
> ----
> 
> Each one of these examples is intended to
> be built by itself outside of the ITK tree.
> 
> The current minimal CMakeLists.txt file
> for each example contains the following:
> 
> 
>   PROJECT(Image)
> 
>   INCLUDE (${CMAKE_ROOT}/Modules/FindITK.cmake)
>   IF (USE_ITK_FILE)
>     INCLUDE(${USE_ITK_FILE})
>   ENDIF(USE_ITK_FILE)
> 
>   ADD_EXECUTABLE(Image1 Image1.cxx )
>   TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(Image1 ITKCommon)
> 
> 
> 
> Note that lib and include paths are being
> sourced directly from the UseITK.cmake list.
> 
> This can be configured without using interaction
> by invoking cmake and passing the path to the
> itk binary dir on the command line. Like:
> 
> cmake ~/Tutorial/DataRepresentation/Image/Cxx
>           -DITK_BINARY_PATH:STRING="/home/ibanez/lib/Insight"
> 
> 
> Which is equivalent to run ccmake and interactively
> type the path for the ITK binary directory. The advantage
> of doing this on the command line is that it will
> facilitate to configure a large number of examples from
> a script.
> 
> 
> --------
> 
> In order to be able to build this examples both
> as part of the tree and as individual examples,
> Andy proposed to add a global cmake variable like
> 
>        ITK_EXAMPLES_INSIDE
> 
> on the top CMakeLists.txt ITK file
> 
> Then, the CMakeLists.txt of every example will look like
> 
> 
> 
>   PROJECT(Image)
> 
>   IF( ITK_EXAMPLES_INSIDE )
>   ELSE( ITK_EXAMPLES_INSIDE )
>     INCLUDE (${CMAKE_ROOT}/Modules/FindITK.cmake)
>     IF (USE_ITK_FILE)
>       INCLUDE(${USE_ITK_FILE})
>     ENDIF(USE_ITK_FILE)
>   ENDIF( ITK_EXAMPLES_INSIDE )
> 
>   ADD_EXECUTABLE(Image1 Image1.cxx )
>   TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(Image1 ITKCommon)
> 
> 
> 
> This will allow to build both as a standalone
> project and as a subdir of the ITK tree.
> 
> 
> -------
> 
> 
> Current directories in Examples will be moved to
> a different cvs module, that is a different checkout.
> Probably named "InsightApplications".  All FLTK based
> applications will go there. This will hopefully
> simplify the configuration of the ITK kernel.
> 
> 
> 
>    Luis
> 
> 
> 
> 
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