[vtkusers] VTK updated to CMake 3.3 and C++11

[Carlos Lopez]

No problem.

Thanks for your reply.

carlos


On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Robert Maynard <robert.maynard at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Hi Carlos,
>
> A regression to the build system was merged in last night that broke
> building with Visual Studio. A correction was just ( 15 minutes ago )
> merged into VTK master that restores building with Visual Studio.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Carlos Lopez <rcourant at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The C++11 check is failing for me. I'm using CMAKE 3.6.2 on windows with
> > Visual studio Community 15.
> >
> > Removing the check within cmake allows me to build without issues.
> >
> > I'm building from gitlab's main repo, updated today.
> >
> > best,
> > carlos
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Robert Maynard
> > <robert.maynard at kitware.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I am happy to announce that over the last two weeks we have rolled out a
> >> series of updates to VTK that mean the minimum required CMake version
> >> is now 3.3 (see below), and now builds with C+11 enabled.
> >>
> >> Yes VTK now requires a C++11 capable compiler. Initial we are only
> asking
> >> for a
> >> minimal set of C++11 features (nullptr), but as continue forward through
> >> the
> >> year we are going require a larger set of C++11 features. The final
> exact
> >> versions for each compiler have not been set in stone, but a rough
> >> estimation
> >> would be:
> >>   - GCC 4.8+
> >>   - Clang 3.3+
> >>   - XCode 5.0+
> >>   - MSVC 2013+
> >>
> >> I wanted to send this announcement out to bring up a couple of points:
> >>
> >> 1. Thanks to everyone that has helped get VTK ready for C++11! The final
> >> CMake
> >> switch over to C++11 was very easy, only because of all the hard work
> that
> >> other
> >> developers did in anticipation of this. So thank you very much.
> >>
> >> 2. The major reason for this slow roll out of C++11 is so that we
> minimize
> >> the
> >> impact on current VTK merge requests, while also minimizing dashboard
> >> instability. Contributors please be aware of these changes if you have
> >> long
> >> running branches.
> >>
> >> 3. We currently have dashboard machines running GCC 4.6 & 4.7. We are
> >> currently
> >> working up a plan on how best to transition these machines to at least
> GCC
> >> 4.8
> >> as the roll out continues.
> >>
> >> 4. The current MinGW dashboard machine doesn't support C++11 and will be
> >> removed, with no plan of a replacement at Kitware. If the community is
> >> interested in maintaining a newer MinGW machine I can provide assistance
> >> on how to setup a machine.
> >>
> >>
> >> ============
> >>
> >> Why CMake 3.3:
> >>
> >> We have chosen CMake 3.3 as the minimum required version for numerous
> >> reasons,
> >> the most important of those reasons being:
> >>
> >> - It is the first CMake release that offers C++11 support for all four
> >> major
> >>   compilers ( GCC / MSVC / Clang / XCode ).
> >>
> >> - The CMake version is sufficiently new enough that it allows for a
> >> cleaning
> >>   of the existing CMake infrastructure. The current CMake minimum
> version
> >>   requires VTK to maintain forks of numerous FindPackages and Modules
> that
> >> are
> >>   part of newer CMake versions.
> >>
> >> - Supports HTTPS downloads, with all the official binaries come with
> >> support.
> >>   Allowing for migration of external data to a HTTPS only server.
> >> Something we
> >>   are going to require in the near future.
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