[vtk-developers] Compiling VTK as a single library

[David Cole]

It would be useful to push this as a test branch, but with the "one
library" flag turned ON by default, so that we can see if it
builds/works everywhere that CDash at home / buildbot tests things.

It doesn't look overly complicating, and it could definitely be useful for some.


D


On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Joachim Pouderoux
<joachim.pouderoux at kitware.com> wrote:
> This is basically the 2 last commits on this old branch:
>   https://github.com/jpouderoux/VTK/tree/CompileVTKAsOneBigLibrary
> It claims that it generates a static lib but in my memory I made it works as
> a dynamic lib as well...
>
> Note that it also contains a script that trims down lot vtk sources
> directories which are not used in my project, just ignore it for sure.
>
> Joachim Pouderoux
>
> PhD, Technical Expert
> Kitware SAS
>
>
> 2015-04-24 19:04 GMT+02:00 Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>:
>>
>> On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:24:48 -0600, David Gobbi said:
>>
>> >I seem to remember that this used to be an option, way back in VTK 2.x
>> > and
>> >VTK 3.x.
>> >
>> >It's definitely a nice feature, but how much complexity does it add to
>> > the
>> >CMake code?
>>
>> It could certainly simplify things for people that build VTK then manually
>> add it to Xcode or VS projects.  There would only be one lib to add, and no
>> guessing which libs are needed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> Sean McBride, B. Eng                 sean at rogue-research.com
>> Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
>> Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada
>>
>>
>
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