[vtk-developers] VTK Modularization: ITK tree layout

Marcus D. Hanwell marcus.hanwell at kitware.com
Mon Apr 4 14:04:21 EDT 2011


On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> The use of ${ITK_LIBRARIES} rather than specific libs has helped our big
> applications during the transition. I suggest that VTK add a VTK_LIBRARIES
> in the planned release, even before modularization. ITK has always had this
> variable, so it can be added to apps that want to support both old and new
> ITK's. Unfortunately, VTK has not defined this cmake variable in the past.
>
I have that on my todo list, I will see if I can get to it soon. It
will be less useful than in ITK's case though (as you pointed out), as
it will be hard to rely on it unless you are building against the
latest VTK.

Marcus



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