# FindDCMTK

Find DICOM ToolKit (DCMTK) libraries and applications

The module defines the following variables:

    DCMTK_INCLUDE_DIRS  - Directories to include to use DCMTK
    DCMTK_LIBRARIES     - Files to link against to use DCMTK
    DCMTK_FOUND         - If false, don't try to use DCMTK
    DCMTK_DIR           - (optional) Source directory for DCMTK

## Compatibility

This module is able to find a version of DCMTK that does or does not export a DCMTKConfig.cmake file. It applies a two step process:

- Step 1: Attempt to find DCMTK version providing a DCMTKConfig.cmake file.

- Step 2: If step 1 failed, rely on FindDCMTK.cmake to set DCMTK_* variables details below.

Recent DCMTK provides a DCMTKConfig.cmake `package configuration file`. To exclusively use the package configuration file (recommended when possible), pass the NO_MODULE option to `find_package()`. For example, find_package(DCMTK NO_MODULE). This requires official DCMTK snapshot 3.6.1_20140617 or newer.

Until all clients update to the more recent DCMTK, build systems will need to support different versions of DCMTK.

On any given system, the following combinations of DCMTK versions could be considered:

| SYSTEM DCMTK | LOCAL DCMTK | Supported ?
Case A | NA | [ ] DCMTKConfig | YES
Case B | NA | [X] DCMTKConfig | YES
Case C | [ ] DCMTKConfig | NA | YES
Case D | [X] DCMTKConfig | NA | YES
Case E | [ ] DCMTKConfig | [ ] DCMTKConfig | YES (*)
Case F | [X] DCMTKConfig | [ ] DCMTKConfig | NO
Case G | [ ] DCMTKConfig | [X] DCMTKConfig | YES
Case H | [X] DCMTKConfig | [X] DCMTKConfig | YES

> (*) See Troubleshooting section.

Legend:

> NA ……………: Means that no System or Local DCMTK is available

> [ ] DCMTKConfig ..: Means that the version of DCMTK does NOT export a DCMTKConfig.cmake file.

> [X] DCMTKConfig ..: Means that the version of DCMTK exports a DCMTKConfig.cmake file.

## Troubleshooting

What to do if my project finds a different version of DCMTK?

Remove DCMTK entry from the CMake cache per `find_package()` documentation.