[Insight-developers] ITK & WrapITK Install better, still not great.

[Ashish Sharma]

Hi Williams,

We are looking into this and we will get to you as soon as possible.

Ashish

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Williams, Norman K <
norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu> wrote:

> So say you want to use ITK with Wrapping.  Wrapping demands shared
> libraries, which means you have to fool around with setting
> {DY}LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If you use TCL (as we do) TCLLIBPATH, or the
> equivalent environment variable for the wrapping language of your choice
> needs setting as well.
>
>
> So here's the situation right now:
>
> 1. ITK libraries go into ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib
> 2. ITK Config files (I.e. where you want to point ITK_DIR) go
>   into ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/cmake/ITK-4.0
> 3. WrapITK libraries go into
> ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/cmake/ITK-4.0/WrapITK/lib
> 4. WrapITK Tcl files goes into
> ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/cmake/ITK-4.0/WrapITK/Tcl
> 5. Python stuff goes into
> ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/cmake/ITK-4.0/WrapITK/lib &
>   ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/cmake/ITK-4.0/WrapITK/Python
>
> Now I don't know what the right thing to do is, but it's a complete change
> from ITKV3.x
>
> Before all the libraries went to
> ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/InsightToolkit, & Wrapping stuff went into
> .../InsightToolkit/WrapITK ...
>
> The ITK3 wasn't that bad, but the ITK4 way is squirrelly. Especially in
> these respects:
>
> 1. Putting the CMake stuff in .../lib/cmake/ITK-4.0 instead of in
> .../lib/InsightToolkit
> 2. Putting the libraries in .../lib instead of .../lib/InsightToolkit
> 3. ESPECIALLY WrapITK burying its libraries in .../lib/cmake/ITK-4.0
>
> So which of the things the current Install process does are by design, and
> which are done just by happenstance?
>
>
>
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