CLILibraries

Description:
CLILibraries is a convenience set of libraries that allow to 
create and compile CLI executable plugins for Slicer3 
(www.slicer.org) using GenerateCLP without having to actually 
link against Slicer3 or make it available through CMake.

Usage:
First compile CLILibraries using CMake (e.g. create a CLILibraries-build
directory, cd into it and go ccmake ../CLILibraries). Once you're
done, write a CMakeLists.txt for your plugin that follows the one below,
and while configuring your project with CMake, just point CLILIBRARIES_DIR
to the CLILibraries build directory (e.g. CLILibraries-build).
After building, you should be able to run the executable for your plugin
from the command line, or point Slicer3 to it and have it available
from within the Slicer3 GUI.

Here's a sample CMakeLists.txt for a MyPlugin plugin, typically consisting of 
MyPlugin.cxx and MyPlugin.xml

project(MyPlugin)

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.4)

if(COMMAND cmake_policy)
  cmake_policy(SET CMP0003 NEW)
endif(COMMAND cmake_policy)

set(CLILIBRARIES_DIR CLILIBRARIES_DIR-NOTFOUND CACHE PATH "Path to CLILibraries build directory")

find_package(ITK REQUIRED)
if(ITK_FOUND)
  include(${ITK_USE_FILE})
endif(ITK_FOUND)

if(CLILIBRARIES_DIR)

  set(TCLAP_DIR ${CLILIBRARIES_DIR}/tclap)
  set(ModuleDescriptionParser_DIR ${CLILIBRARIES_DIR}/ModuleDescriptionParser)
  set(GenerateCLP_DIR ${CLILIBRARIES_DIR}/GenerateCLP)
  include(${CLILIBRARIES_DIR}/GenerateCLP/UseGenerateCLP.cmake)
  #set(GENERATECLP_EXE ${CLILIBRARIES_DIR}/GenerateCLP/GenerateCLP)
  find_file(GENERATECLP_EXE GenerateCLP ${CLILIBRARIES_DIR}/GenerateCLP/ ${CLILIBRARIES_DIR}/GenerateCLP/Debug ${CLILIBRARIES_DIR}/GenerateCLP/Release)

  set(CLP MyPlugin)
  set(${CLP}_SOURCE ${CLP}.cxx)
  generateclp(${CLP}_SOURCE ${CLP}.xml)
  add_executable(${CLP} ${${CLP}_SOURCE})
  target_link_libraries(${CLP} ITKCommon ITKIO ITKBasicFilters ITKNumerics ITKAlgorithms)

endif(CLILIBRARIES_DIR)


Enjoy,

Luca Antiga, PhD
Principal Scientist, Orobix Srl
luca.antiga@orobix.com