CMAKE Files to Identify ANTs Libraries

[blakedewey]

Is your feature request related to a problem?
Building something like ANTsPy on top of an ANTs installation is difficult because ANTs libraries aren't defined in a CMAKE file that can be found using find_package.

Proposed new features
Generate a ANTsConfig.cmake file (at the minimum) that defines the libraries installed with ANTs.

[dzenanz]

Was any progress made on this front?

[cookpa]

Not to my knowledge, sorry

[dzenanz]

I think I need to do this. Can this issue be assigned to me?

[cookpa]

Certainly, that would be great. Happy to help if I can

[dzenanz]

It turns out I don't need this, at least not now. I made minimal progress, which I put in draft PR #1656.

[ncullen93]

Hi @dzenanz just curious - why did you not need this in the end? The biggest enhancement for ANTsPy would be to prune unused files from the ANTs build in order to decrease the build size, so I am wondering if your draft PR was progress towards that front. Thanks!

[dzenanz]

I ended up not compiling ANTs as such. I FetchContent, specify its include directories, and use (some of) the headers. See the details here:
https://github.com/thewtex/ANTsWasm/blob/main/CMakeLists.txt

[ncullen93]

Got it - looks interesting, thanks for sharing.