[vtkusers] How to build with Vtk as an external project?

[Bill Lorensen]

The ITK wiki examples provide a superbuild capability. Look here:
http://gitorious.org/itkwikiexamples/itkwikiexamples/trees/master/Superbuild
To see the cmake files



On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Lars Bilke <lars.bilke at ufz.de> wrote:

> I am developing an application which uses VTK for the visualization. I
> would like to build against VTK as an external project. So I am using
> ExternalProject_Add() to build VTK which works fine.
>
> But how to set include directories and link libraries in my project? I
> read that ExternalProject_Add and FindPackage should not be used together.
> But how to populate all the necessary CMake variables which I normally get
> when is use FindPackage.
>
> Has anybody done this? I do not want the build my project like the
> ParaView superbuild. The simplest possible example would be very helpful!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Lars Bilke.
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