[vtk-developers] Compiling VTK as a single library

[David Gobbi]

It's a much smaller change than I thought it would be! If this works
cross-platform, I definitely think it would be worthwhile.

 - David


On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 11:30 AM, David Cole <DLRdave at aol.com> wrote:

> 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,
>
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