Hello, I want to add VTK as an external project, but I have a few questions.
Looking online at examples of other projects using vtk as an external project, many of them use a 'superbuild' style technique (example here from the archives: [1]). By that I mean that they have some option to enable SuperBuild (or a seperate CMakeLists.txt file) then that adds all the external projects (i.e. vtk or itk), and finally they add their own project as an external project (obv with superbuild turned off). I am wondering why this is done this way.. What I would like to do it have options for these libraries (starting with VTK) to download and build it if they wish. Doing it this way, all of the other options are available to the user. -Jameson [1] http://cmake.3232098.n2.nabble.com/How-to-use-VTK-as-an-ExternalProject-td6002193.html -- View this message in context: http://cmake.3232098.n2.nabble.com/Question-regarding-External-Project-add-and-VTK-tp7587557.html Sent from the CMake mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake