[vtkusers] Self-installed version incompatible with ITK.

[Mark Foskey]

The precompiled binaries are compiled with VTK_USE_ANSI_STDLIB set to 
OFF, I understand for performance reasons.  This means that anyone 
using ITK (http://www.itk.org/) with VTK (which is a sizable fraction 
of the ITK user base) must download and compile the VTK source.

It would be nice if there were some location where an ITK-compatible 
self-installer for VTK could be downloaded.  I'm not advocating making 
the main download ITK compatible, since the VTK user base contains a 
lot of non-ITK users.

If there is concern about making the download page too cluttered, 
perhaps there should be a separate section headed "Using VTK with Other 
Libraries", or some such.

It is possible to spend a number of hours trying to get both systems to 
work together.  One mistake that at least one user has made is to 
compile VTK, and only then run CMake-Install on ITK and learn that 
VTK_USE_ANSI_STDLIB must be ON (and, still later, that VTK_USE_HYBRID 
must also be ON).  Anything that could reduce these frustrations would 
be very helpful.

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