[ITK-dev] Naming inconsistency in ITK HDF5 lib in Debug and Release

[Matt McCormick]

Hi Seun,

In ITK 4.11 (master), we upgraded the internal version of HDF5 to
1.8.17, and the library name change was something that was done in
upstream HDF5.

HTH,
Matt

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Seun Odutola <seun at rogue-research.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>    I'm currently trying out the latest on ITK master and on successfully
> building/ installing and compiling my project (see my other post on
> "H5pubconf.h missing during installation (ITK master)”) all seems to work
> but only after a slight tweak. The tweak was necessary because I realised
> that the generated lib for hdf5 in both debug and release mode were named
> differently compared to the other libs. In Debug, all libs are named
> accordingly libITK... or libitk… ending with .a except that of
> libitkhdf5_cpp_debug.a & libitkhdf5_debug.a, whereas in Release it’s not the
> case as they are named libitkhdf5_cpp.a & libitkhdf5.a. It’s worth
> mentioning that the latter was how the libs were named prior to me updating
> my ITK to 4.11 (on master) which made linking against these libs easier in
> my case as I had only to provide the names in my configuration file without
> having to distinguish between debug or release. In a nutshell, why is this
> the case with HDF5, is this another one of ITK installation bugs or is this
> deliberate for some reason if so can someone explain why, thanks.
>
> Regards,
>   Seun
>
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