[Insight-developers] ITK Modular: mingw deal breaker

[Bill Lorensen]

Marcus,

Sounds interesting. There are many apps that use both ITK and VTK.
Once VTK is modularized, the command line length will be even larger.
I suspect that platforms other than mingw will start to have issues.

Bill

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On my mingw build, if I turn on all modules and testing, I get
>> "The input line is too long."
>> when trying to build ITK.
>>
>> This is a real deal breaker. A possible solution is to change the gcc
>> compiler to use the @file command line option that allows options to
>> be read from a file.
>>
> Another alternative is to use the forwarding headers work that I did
> for Boost. It uses CMake to create forwarding headers, and could
> create the flat layout that will be in the install tree in the build
> directory. That way only one -I should be required for the ITK
> headers, and it will be very similar to the installed header layout.
>
> It would need some adaptation, but might be a viable solution in this case.
>
> Marcus
>