[Paraview] building paraview with system includes/libraries

[Berk Geveci]

Even though a few libraries (like hdf5) can be external, ParaView
requires internal Tcl/Tk and VTK. There are no cmake options to enable
external VTK and Tcl/Tk libraries. A few releases ago, we decided to
drop support for external libraries because it was causing too many
problems.

-Berk

On 6/24/05, Dominik Szczerba <domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> I would like to add some functionality to paraview. Could someone please
> enlighten me on the following points?
> 
> Unless there is a particular reason for having a special version of
> external libs (vtk itself, tk etc.) that are shipped with the paraview's
> source, I would like to separate the code from external libs and compile
> paraview using externally available system versions (linux/debian). How
> do I proceed? It is not much clear for me which variables to set in the
> cmake config files.
> 
> thanks and regards,
> Dominik
> 
> --
> Dominik Szczerba, Dr.
> Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
> http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi
> 
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