[vtkusers] [FORGED] Programming in Visual studio - How to include all the required directories in Visual studio.

[Gib Bogle]

You definitely want to use cmake.  It makes the task very easy.

Here is the contents of CMakeLists.txt to build a simple program:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
PROJECT(TensorGlyph)
find_package(VTK REQUIRED)
include(${VTK_USE_FILE})
add_executable(TensorGlyph  TensorGlyph.cxx)
target_link_libraries(TensorGlyph ${VTK_LIBRARIES})

You will generate the VS project files by a command like this (in the directory that holds CMakeLists.txt):

cmake -G "Visual Studio 2013"

I initially resisted using cmake when I started working with ITK and VTK, but I quickly came to see the error of my ways.  Everybody will give you the same advice.

Gib
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From: vtkusers [vtkusers-bounces at vtk.org] on behalf of bhanu kiran chaluvadi [nthdimensionalreality at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 23 June 2016 2:29 p.m.
To: vtkusers at vtk.org
Subject: [FORGED] [vtkusers] Programming in Visual studio - How to include all the required directories in Visual studio.

Hi,
I am new to VTK.
 I am using VTK - 6.3.0 along with visual studio 2013. I don't have much knowledge in cmake.
I am able to build VTK and run all the example(present in bin folder) by following some youtube tutorials.

Now i want to create by own sample project.  I want to include  "vtkRenderer.h" in my program(for example)..

As usual in visual studio -> properties i included the path where the program can find vtkRenderer.h

But vtkRenderer.h itself has 4 included header files

#include "vtkRenderingCoreModule.h" // For export macro
#include "vtkViewport.h"

#include "vtkVolumeCollection.h" // Needed for access in inline members
#include "vtkActorCollection.h"

And Each of the  above header file has further more included header file..and this continued...

I will not be  able to include the paths for each header file. since they are so many(more than 50)of them

Is there any way around this ?
i.e. if i
#include <vtkRenderer.h>
It should include all its dependency files.

Please help.

Thanks
BhanuKIran
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