[vtkusers] vcpkg

[Francois Budin]

Since Qt is available through this system, I agree with Dzenan: It makes
sense to make these depend on each other.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have always built VTK with Qt support, and ITK with VTK-glue. Perhaps we
> could make those libraries dependencies: ITK depends on VTK, and VTK
> depends on Qt?
>
> Róbert, do you intend to make a PR for your additions to vcpkg?
>
> Regards,
> Dženan
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Róbert Špir <spir.robert at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I made a simple portfile [1] for VTK to vcpkg and it seems that it works.
>> At least I was able to build and run the sphere VTK example.
>>
>> Only problem that I see is that VTK has large number of build
>> configuration options and I don’t know how this could be handled with vcpkg
>> (for example optional QT support).
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/RobertSpir/vcpkg/blob/add-vtk/ports/vtk/p
>> ortfile.cmake
>>
>>
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* vtkusers [mailto:vtkusers-bounces at vtk.org] *On Behalf Of *Dženan
>> Zukić
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 10, 2017 4:42 PM
>> *To:* Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com>
>> *Cc:* vtkusers <vtkusers at vtk.org>; ITK developer mailing list <
>> insight-developers at itk.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [vtkusers] vcpkg
>>
>>
>>
>> If there is no undergoing effort to "port" VTK to vcpkg, we could go
>> ahead and add ITK with VTKGlue disabled. Once VTK is added, we could turn
>> on VTKGlue and make VTK a dependency.
>>
>>
>>
>> P.S. I originally cross-posted this to ITK and VTK developers lists, but
>> since I am only subscribed to VTK-users my message was bounced from
>> VTK-developers. Hence this "merge" message including Francois' response.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Francois Budin
>>
>> 9:45 AM (52 minutes ago)
>>
>> to me, vtk-developers, ITK
>>
>> Never heard of it before. It does look interesting. We could try to
>> estimate how much work it would be to port ITK (and VTK?)  to that
>> platform. Since it supports CMake [1], it may not be much work.
>>
>> Francois
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/docs/
>> EXAMPLES.md#example-1-2-b
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 18:58:40 -0500, Dženan Zukić wrote:
>> > vcpkg
>> > <https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/09/19/vcpkg-a-
>> tool-to-acquire-and-build-c-open-source-libraries-on-windows/>
>> > looks
>> > like a good effort for easing library installation for usage in Visual
>> > Studio. Should we join the effort by adding ITK and VTK? Has anyone
>> > tried/started doing this?
>>
>> CPack would likely need to support it first. Moving VTK over to the new
>> superbuild would also help there.
>>
>> --Ben
>>
>>
>>
>
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