[vtkusers] Class-libraries mapping

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Sensei <senseiwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I am planning to use VTK on my mac, however, I am using Xcode as my main environment. I know that VTK is cmake-based, and cmake can, actually, generate Xcode projects (but I have to test it with Xcode 4).
>
> However, I'd like to keep my existing projects alive, and not being replaced by others. But how do I know which library I am using? Actually, I don't see it in the documentation.
>
> Moreover, tutorials and wikis use CMake, but how do I know which libraries TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES will need? I know it's redundant, as this is equivalent to Xcode, but it puzzles me!
>
> So... is there any class/library mapping that I can use?
>

Usually in vtk the library you need is the name of the folder that the
source is in prepended with vtk.

 For example if the class you want is in VTK-5.6.1\Hybrid

then you link with vtkHybrid

John