Building modules against installed ITK

Engineering
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Hi all,

I would like to build ITKVtkGlue against an installed ITK (so I can link to a VTK built by ParaView as part of a superbuild). I get an error saying this is unsupported, however, Ben Boeckel says that could lead to rpath issues. Is there a chance that ITK could support module builds against install trees?

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Hello David!

Welcome to the ITK community! :sunny:

I would like to build ITKVtkGlue against an installed ITK

Cool! An updates version of this module that can be built externally can be found here:

so I can link to a VTK built by ParaView as part of a superbuild

I wonder if something can be done with the VTK build produced by ParaView to improve this situation. This has been discussed many times in the past – at least previously, it was difficult or not possible to build against ParaView’s VTK.

I get an error saying this is unsupported, however, Ben Boeckel says that could lead to rpath issues 1.

If the VTK tree is an install tree, rpath issues are unlikely.

Is there a chance that ITK could support module builds against install trees?

This is something we would like to do, but it is a large effort that we do not currently have the resources for.