[vtkusers] Extending VTK with cmake

[Amy Squillacote]

Hi Ali,

Take a look at VTK/Examples/Build/vtkLocal in the VTK source tree. The 
README file in this directory gives instructions for adding another kit 
without modifying the rest of VTK.

- Amy

Ali - wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the best way of extending VTK by adding another kit and using 
> cmake? In theory, it is possible to go through the cmake code and add 
> another kit, however, this looks to be a messy way as one needs to 
> modify a lot of cmake files. When a new VTK version is released, all 
> these modified files are overwritten and must be re-done. I wonder why 
> the design of VTK structure is in a way that adding additional kits as 
> an 'independent' plugin is not possible.
>
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