[vtkusers] Combine VTk with other package

[kent williams]

The way I've done it in the past is this:  A top level Makefile does
the whole configure/build/install routine for Makefile/GConf based
package.  Similarly, Make runs CMake to configure code like VTK.

The other option is to write CMakeLists.txt files for the package.
This isn't that difficult for packages that don't have something
screwy going on in the Makefiles.  Making a library just means adding
a source list to a library target.  All the platform-specific stuff
that running configure usually does happens internally to CMake.

If you want to know what commands to use I find it easier to run CMake
from the command line and figure out the minimal set of symbols needed
to get things built the way you want. Usually that amounts to a
definition for the install directory, and the paths to get at other
packages upon which the current library depends.

On 11/5/07, Fırat Doğan <firatdogan at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I have understood that, using cmake or ccmake with the combination of
> CmakeFiles.txt is suggested way of generating makefiles to compile any VTK
> code.  However if I have another makefile to compile another open source
> package's  (FEM Library) C++ code, what will be the strategy to combine VTK
> C++ user code with the FEM C++ code to compile in the same environment ?
>
> Do I have to add required includes and libraries into cmake generated make
> file or , add cmake generated makefile lines into my open source fem library
> makefile configuration ?
>
> regards.
> firat.
>
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