[vtkusers] Building VTK on WIN7 using all static libs

[Alex Malyushytskyy]

I don't think it is a good idea to couple dynamic linking option and
choice of static or dynamic CRT.
This might be a big problem on Windows.

I often build static libraries as used as a modulus for different
applications and have to create two versions:
once linked to static CRTs, another to dynamic libraries.

This is a pain, but since you can't mix CRTs in the same application
you have to have a choice.
This does apply to VTK.


So BUILD_SHARED_LIBS flag supposed to affect only libraries you build,
not libraries you are going to link to.

If you need control which CRT to use you need different flag.

And I believe this is set in
CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_XXXX

where _XXXX might be MINSIZEREL, etc


Regards,
   Alex

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:18 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Even you link vtk statically, you probably still want to link to dynamic
>> vc++ runtime.
>>
>
> I prefer it that way.
>
> John
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