[vtk-developers] Examples/Build/vtkMy last minute request

[Brad King]

dean.inglis at camris.ca wrote:
> for those of us who build our own out of source classes
> using VTK/Examples/Build/vtkMy as a model,
> I am requesting, hopefully before VTK 4.5 is released,
> that this example be fully tested under static and shared builds.

I've updated the CMake code in vtkMy and vtkLocal to modern-style.  I've 
converted vtkImageFoo to the new pipeline by hand, but I don't want to 
mess with the conversion script (you'll have to bug Ken Martin for that).

Getting these tested on the dashboard everywhere is non-trivial, which 
is why it has not been done and why they get out of date.  A few 
dashboard machines test them but not on very many configurations.  I've 
been working on the problem slowly but I can't spend much time on it.

> It would be great if tcl wrapping worked under static builds

That would require a vtkmy equivalent of the "vtk" executable and it 
would have to link and initialize all of VTK's wrappers.  It wouldn't be 
too hard to implement but I don't want to support it right now.  It is 
possible to build vtkMy shared even with a static VTK.  Then one can run 
the main "vtk" executable and load the shared vtkMy* Tcl wrappers.

> and having doxygen genereated documentation working again 
> would be a bonus.

I enabled BUILD_DOCUMENTATION, went into the Utilities/Doxygen 
directory, and ran "make vtkMyDoxygenDoc".  It seemed to produce 
documentation as expected.  The implementation only works on UNIX but 
there is no time to fix it now.

-Brad