Multi-configuration from installed VTK

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Hi all,

Recently we’ve found that our current setup in Plus is unable to support multi-configuration builds with installed VTK.

Is there a way to set up our CMake so that this is possible?

(Related Plus issue.)
@lassoan

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Some questions:

  • Are you using a multi-config generator to build VTK (Visual Studio or Xcode)?
  • If not, are you doing completely separate builds or resetting CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE in the same build tree?
  • What configurations are you looking to co-install? One release (be it Release, RelWithDebInfo, or MinSizeRel) and one debug (Debug)? Do you want to support all four?
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Oh, and is this with 8.90 or 8.2?

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Hi Ben, thanks for your help.

We’re using VTK 8.2 with Visual Studio 2015.

We would like to implement to be compatible with all build configurations.

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  • I really recommend using a single build tree for generating this (either with Visual Studio and --config or by switching CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE and rerunning the install)
  • The CMAKE_$<CONFIG>_POSTFIX cache variable can be used to add custom suffixes based on the release. Alternatively, VTK_CUSTOM_LIBRARY_SUFFIX could be used if that fails.

8.2 is probably robust with these settings. If something more is necessary, we can look at supporting it properly in 8.90+ since I suspect it behaves similarly in this situation. If it isn’t enough, I recommend narrowing down the libraries you bring in by using find_package(VTK COMPONENTS) rather than importing every library built. Reducing how much of VTK is built is also a solution here (something probably worthwhile anyways).

I’m stepping out for a few days, but feel free to ping me and I’ll take a look when I’m back.