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

[Lars Bilke]

Thank you Bill for the answer!

But I would like to know a solution without using a superbuild.

Am 01.07.2013 um 17:35 schrieb Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>:

> 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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