[Smtk-developers] Static build of smtk

TJ Corona tj.corona at kitware.com
Tue May 9 17:43:04 EDT 2017


Thanks for the quick reply! You saved me an evening of torment.

Thomas J. Corona, Ph.D.
Kitware, Inc.
Senior R&D Engineer
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Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4443

> On May 9, 2017, at 4:41 PM, David Thompson <david.thompson at kitware.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi TJ,
> 
>> Before I go down a rabbit hole, I just wanted to check with the list: can I build smtk with static linkage and with vtk + python bindings?
> 
> While in theory this might be possible, I suspect the rabbit hole is deep enough to puncture the mantle. I doubt that SMTK is set up to build python modules dynamically when told to do a static build (in which case you would have to create a "frozen" python interpreter like PV does on some HPC systems). Even if SMTK created dynamic Python modules and static libraries, I think there would be other issues based on vague memories of some MR comments a while back (maybe some improper dependencies, maybe more).
> 
> 	David

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