[vtkusers] default linking order of static VTK libraries in CMake

[Chuck Atkins]

If your project uses CMake then the imported targets from VTK will
automatically pull in their appropriate dependencies in the right order.
For example:

CMakeLists.txt:
project(foo)

find_package(VTK REQUIRED)
include(${VTK_USE_FILE})

# Add an executable that users vtkFiltersCore
add_executable(foo foo.cxx)
target_link_libraries(foo vtkFiltersCore)

Since your using CMake then vtkFiltersCore is not just a link library, but
a full blown imported target, which means that it carries it's dependencies
with it as they need to be linked.


- Chuck

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 7:54 AM, just_rookie <925345468 at qq.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would like to link static VTK libraries (linux .a files) in CMake, I got
> two questions:
>
> (1) How to find out which static libraries should be linked? Based on
> header
> files or other ways?
>
> (2) When linking static libraries, linking order is important, so is there
> a
> default linking order of VTK libraries? Which libraries should come first
> or
> come later?
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
>
>
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