This is a question for anyone using SimpleITK from within a C++ program.
I have downloaded the SimpleITK code, and generated the VS2008 .sln files using CMake as per SimpleITK instructions (Superbuild).
In the SimpleITK-build\lib\Debug I get a few SimpleITK libs eg: SimpleITKCommon-0.8.lib.
In SimpleITK-build\ITK-build\lib\Debug I get many ITK libs eg: ITKCommon-4.5.lib
In the code, I use: #include "SimpleITK.h"
Question: What do I link to?
I can add to linker/input/additional dependencies all the SimpleITK libs one by one. Then I get unresolved external symbols, as I have not linked to the ITK libs (there are like 50 of them). I can't believe I need to add to additional dependencies 50-60 libs.
What am I missing here? can't find any documentation about linking into SimpleITK fom C++.
Thanks and cheers
Ari
It is recommend to use CMake. You are correct that you would need to add all those libraries if you were to do it manually.
From the SimpleITK/Examples/CMakeLists.txt file here is how to create a project using CMake:
find_package(SimpleITK REQUIRED)
include(${SimpleITK_USE_FILE})
# Add compiler flags needed to use SimpleITK.
set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} ${SimpleITK_REQUIRED_C_FLAGS}")
set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} ${SimpleITK_REQUIRED_CXX_FLAGS}")
set(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS} ${SimpleITK_REQUIRED_LINK_FLAGS}")
set(CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS} ${SimpleITK_REQUIRED_LINK_FLAGS}")
set(CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS} ${SimpleITK_REQUIRED_LINK_FLAGS}")
add_executable ( SimpleGaussian SimpleGaussian.cxx )
target_link_libraries ( SimpleGaussian ${SimpleITK_LIBRARIES} )