[Insight-users] installation problem

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Ofri,

That's right.

For every new project you start, you must create a CMakeLists.txt
that configure all the components required for your application.
It is just like creating a Makefile in Unix: you need one for
every application.


Now,
just to clarify that CMake is not a monopole, you don't *have*
to do it this way,.. this is just the *easy* way to do it.
A courageous programmer (with a lot of spare time to...'use') can
always configure his Makefile (on unix) or his .dsw in VC++ by
setting up all the options manually. However keep in mind that the
historical reason for the existance of CMake is that VTK/ITK
developers got tired of tweaking makefiles and VC++ projects by
hand.

CMake is a quite powerful tool in itself. Totally independent of
its use in ITK and VTK, CMake is certainly the easiest way to
correctly configure an application.

If you add multiplatform as a requirement, CMake is probably the
only way to configure an application for being run in: VC++ 6,
VC++ 7, Borland, Cygwin, Linux, Sun, Irix and Mac.

You got all this just by writing only this single CMakeLists.txt file.


   Luis



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Ofri Sadowsky wrote:

> Hi Luis,
> 
> Should I understand from this message that whenever I create a ITK using
> project I should write a CMakeLists for it? I mean, I could copy one from the
> Examples directory and revise it, but the essential thing is that there
> should be a CMakeLists file for every itk project.
> 
> Ofri.
>