[vtk-developers] Header-wrapping in Modular

[Brad King]

On 4/20/2012 1:46 PM, David Gobbi wrote:
> When looking through Common/Core/CMakeLists.txt I noticed that there
> are a several header files listed in Module_SRCS that don't seem to
> belong, e.g.
>
> vtkType.h
> vtkSystemIncludes.h
> vtkConfigure.h
> etc.
>
> If I understand things properly, it looks like the reason those headers
> are in Module_SRCS instead of in Module_HDRS is that this is the
> only way to pass them to the wrappers, because in vtkWrapping.cmake
> the wrappers macros are called like so:
>
> vtk_add_python_wrapping(${module_name} "${module_srcs}")
>
> The wrappers should see both Module_SRCS and Module_HDRS,
> something like this:
>
> vtk_add_python_wrapping(${module_name} "${module_srcs}" "${module_hdrs}")
>
> Then, each wrapper will deal with module_hdrs in the manner that is
> applicable to that wrapper.  Are there any reasons for not taking this
> approach?

The current behavior was last adjusted here:

   http://vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=commitdiff;h=a7fc5893

It was a quick-fix at the time.  If you have time for a more
thorough solution please do so.

-Brad