[vtkusers] Extending VTK with cmake

Ali - saveez at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 9 10:16:04 EDT 2006


Amy,

Thanks. Would vtkLocal be enough if I want the c++ classes to be wrapped or 
do I need to use vtkMy instead? If vtkLocal can be also used for wrapping, 
what is the different between it and vtkMy?

>
>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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