[vtkusers] autoconf macros to check for VTK

[Francesco Montorsi]

any vtk developer can comment on this ?

Thanks,
Francesco


Francesco Montorsi wrote:
> Hello all,
>    I've found this mail in vtkusers archive; I'm in the same situation.
> Does anyone knows of an M4 macro which can be used in configure scripts 
> to detect VTK installations ?
> 
> If it does not exist, I'm going to write it.
> However before doing that I would like to know from VTK developers if 
> they plan to ever include something like a .pc file for pkg-config in 
> linux VTK distro. It would be a small file to add to VTK installation 
> process which would make a lot easier using VTK under unix as you should 
> then write just:
> 
> pkg-config vtk --cxxflags
> 
> to get the CXXFLAGS required to compile a program/lib against VTK. The 
> same would be for --libs. A .pc file is quite easy to write and it would 
> solve the autoconf macro problem as I would then use the 
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES(VTK ...) macro.
> 
> Thanks,
> Francesco Montorsi
> 
> 
> 
>  >Anybody out there writing software that uses VTK and builds with
>  >autoconf? In my current projects that need it I'm forcing users to
>  >specify --with-vtk=/path/to/vtk as an argument to the ./configure
>  >script, but this is less than ideal.
>  >
>  >Anyone else run into this before? Do you have your own custom autoconf
>  >macros to look for VTK in some obvious paths? Would you like to share?
>  >=)
>  >
>  >-tom
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