[vtkusers] Windows: Correctly linking the debug and release libraries in a CMake-based project

[Lars Bilke]

Hi vtk users,

I want to use VTK in a large multiplatform (Win, Linux, Mac) project.
The projects build configution is driven by CMake. Under windows VTK is
not really usable with CMake for me:

When I built VTK from source with the help of CMake and Visual Studio
and built the INSTALL target I can only install one configuration: debug
OR release because of the identical naming of the debug and release libs.
Because I also Qt the following issue also occurs:

http://www.itk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ#Shared_builds_of_VTK_and_debugging_QVTKWidget_using_Visual_Studio

On the VTK-FAQ page a manual workaround for this problem is given but
the workaround is not "the CMake-way"-like.

Sure, if I don´t install vtk through the install target and don´t use
find_package(VTK) and INCLUDE( ${VTK_USE_FILE} ) I can set all the
include and linker paths to the paths where I built VTK manually in my
project but that is not a convenient solution.

I know that this problem was already discussed here on the list but no
good solution was given.

So can someone with more insight in VTKs CMake internals help me out?

Thanks!!

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Lars Bilke

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