[Insight-developers] How do I make a module default to Off?

[Xiaoxiao Liu]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Williams, Norman K <
norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu> wrote:

> I'm giving up for the moment on getting DCMTK ImageIO working on Windows
> with Visual Studios. The unix-like targets should work fine but there is a
> hideous thicket of configuration problems that the Visual Studio build
> system introduces, that I intend to either return to eventually or leave
> to someone who thinks they can resolve them.
>
> What I want to do now is this: If the compiler is MSVC, then ITKDCMTK and
> ITKIODCMTK modules are turned off by default.  If the user turns them on,
> then only for MSVC require ITK_USE_SYSTEM_DCMTK to be On.
>
> To enforce that requirement for ITK_USE_SYSTEM_DCMTK I can add some logic
> to Modules/ThirdParty/DCMTK/itk-module-init.cmake.
>
> What I don't understand is where and how modules like
> Modules/Bridge/VtkGlue are forced to default to OFF.
>
>
>> Checkout the usage of "EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL" in itk-module.cmake of those
modules.




> If anyone is really ambitious and is a Visual Studio whiz, they can take a
> look at http://review.source.kitware.com/#/c/7830/
>
> Brad King was extremely helpful with getting things working under OSX and
> Linux and got most of the way there with Windows/Visual Studio.  The
> problem with Visual Studio is that apparently, once DCMTK gets built as an
> external project, all the programs that link to the DCMTK libraries fail
> because the DCMTK libraries found depend on the wrong versions of Visual
> Studio system libraries.
>
> --
> Kent Williams norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu
>
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*Xiaoxiao Liu*, Ph.D.
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Kitware Inc <http://www.kitware.com/>.
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