[vtkusers] VTK+Qt really needs QtWebKit?

[Benoit Scherrer]

Thanks a lot for all the answers!

I was effectively using the last Git version.

Thanks Marcus, i did what you suggest and
it goes through Cmake without any error message.
It's now compiling :)

Thanks,
Best,
B



On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:48 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I believe it with VTK 5.10...
> > >
> > > I am using VTK 'master' and I think something has snuck in that
> requires
> > > webkit for Qt builds now. I don't recall the exact compiler/linker
> error I
> > > was seeing, but it was definitely webkit related.
> > >
> >
> > That makes sense. Sorry I did not specify the version in the first post.
> >
> I know this pretty well because I dealt with it in modularization (and
> before then). VTK used to probe your Qt configuration and enable
> certain functionality if webkit was present. With modular VTK we made
> the decision not to allow a module to be built differently based on
> what it detected. So I split out the class (that was optionally
> removed before) into GUISupport/QtWebkit.
>
> I guess the problem you are seeing is that we put that module in the
> Qt group, so if you are enabling groups it looks like webkit is
> required. It is really only one class (vtkQtRichTextView), and we
> could remove this module from the Qt group requiring users to
> specifically enable the module if they want that class. You can
> disable the Qt group, and simply enable the modules you are interested
> in (such as vtkGUISupportQt) that definitely do not require webkit.
>
> Marcus
>
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