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List:       cmake
Subject:    Re: [CMake] Question regarding External Project add and VTK
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2014-06-02 22:30:15
Message-ID: lmittn$ko1$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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On 2014-06-02 17:48, jmerkow wrote:
> 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
> [...] 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..

I think the answer is that you otherwise get into a chicken-and-egg
situation. Basically, your own project can't configure until VTK is
available; therefore, it is necessary to make configuration of your own
project be done as a build step that can depend on the build of VTK,
which is what the above pattern achieves.

-- 
Matthew

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