[Insight-users] Using ITK libraries without CMAKE

[Dan Mueller]

Hi all,

Juan and Dawood: I think Sameer has decided to go for CMake, but is
now encountering issues with compiling using CMake (see his email
below).

Sameer: Can you please provide some more information to the users list
to help us diagnose the issue:
What version of CMake?
What version of ITK?
What operating system?
What compiler and version?
Are you using system vxl (ie. ITK_USE_SYSTEM_VXL = true)?
What steps did you take before receiving the error message?

Many people, and scores of automated machines, compile ITK without issue...

Regards, Dan Mueller

On 18 May 2011 09:37, Sameer Zaheer <bless.sins at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> For one, this is what I'm getting when I try to build ITKCommon:
>
> 3>..\..\..\..\..\InsightToolkit-3.20.0\Utilities\vxl\core\vnl\vnl_math.cxx(155):
> fatal error C1017: invalid integer constant expression
>
> The line this is referring to is:
>
> # if VXL_BIG_ENDIAN
>
> The file can be accessed here:
> http://www.lems.brown.edu/vision/vxl_doc/html/core/vnl/html/vnl__math_8cxx-source.html
>
> Note there's a difference of one line from the link to the file I'm
> using. That is because the file I'm using is missing the following
> line (which I think is irrelevant to the error):
>
> const double vnl_math::euler
> VCL_STATIC_CONST_INIT_FLOAT_DEFN( 0.57721566490153286061 );
>
> Thanks and your help is appreciated,
>
> Sameer

On 18 May 2011 14:00, Juan Cardelino <juan.cardelino at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Sameer,
>                I forgot to add that my experience was compiling the whole ITK with cmake and then using it to compile programs without it, building them with regular makefiles. This is already hard to do and maintain, so extracting a set of classes and compiling them alone, I think it will be almost impossible.
> Best regards,
>                   Juan
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Dawood Masslawi <masslawi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Sameer,
>> In ITK there are dependencies and interdependencies between classes and libraries
>> which go deep into the ITK's hierarchy and this virtually makes it a nightmare to try to
>> use a single library without others and that is source of the errors you've been getting.
>> As Dan and Juan suggested the best way to prevent severe headaches in ITK code
>> development ":)" is to use Cmake.
>> Regards,
>> Dawood
>>
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried downloading ITK and building all the libraries and it failed giving
>> various errors. I started googling the errors but eventually gave up as
>> there were too many. Since I really only need one class (maybe two), I was
>> wondering if I could copy and past the source files for that into the folder
>> I'm using and then build it with MS Visual Studio?
>>
>> The class I'm talking about it is:
>>
>> itkLineIterator
>>
>> Besides adding #include <itkLineIterator.h> to the top of my code's file,
>> what else would I have to do? Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Sameer Zaheer
>>  University of Toronto