Documentation/4.0/Developers/Build Instructions/Prerequisites

Please check that the following tools are installed on your machine.

Required tools and libraries

Linux

Ubuntu

• Ubuntu users, just type the following line in a terminal

sudo apt-get install subversion gcc g++ libX11-dev libXt-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev libglu1-mesa-dev git cmake cmake-curses-gui

• libXt-devel (libXt-dev)
• opengl/mesa (libgl1-mesa-dev and libosmesa6-dev)
• glu (libglu1-mesa-dev)
• libX11-devel (libX11-dev on Ubuntu 7.04)

Debian Squeeze

sudo apt-get install gcc libX11-dev libXt-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev libglu1-mesa-dev git cmake cmake-curses-gui libqt4-dev subversion make g++

CentOS

• CentOS user type:

yum install gcc-c++ libX11-devel libXt-devel make libXext-devel

Generic (need to confirm)

• CMake >= 2.8.4
• Git >= 1.6.5
• An easy way to get all of the packages needed to build Slicer is to install all of the packages needed to build paraview (another vtk-based program)
  • sudo apt-get install aptitude
  • sudo aptitude build-dep paraview
• gcc
• gcc-c++
• libX11

Mac

• Mac Os X >= 10.5 (Leopard)
• CMake >= 2.8.6
• Git >= 1.6.5
• XCode (for the SDK libs)

Windows

• CMake >= 2.8.4
  • Windows7: Custom build of CMake 2.8.7 by Andras Lasso. Waiting CMake 2.8.8 is released, this solves issue #12957. Consider also reading this page for further details.
• Git >= 1.6.5.
  • msysGit-fullinstall recommended.
  • Use of TortoiseGit is optional.
  • For convenience, you could update the PATH variable so that git can be automatically discovered when configuring Slicer. If not, you will have to specify the GIT_EXECUTABLE at configure time.
• SVN (e.g. SlikSvn or cygwin's svn client)
• IDE
  • Tested/Recommended: Microsoft Visual Studio 9 2008 (Any edition).
  • Experimental: The plan is to support Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Any edition).
    • Make sure to install:
      • SP1. Click here to download SP1 and click here to understand the motivation.
      • SP1 Compiler update. Click here to download and here to understand the motivation.
    • Optional: "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package". Click here for x64 download, or here for x86 download. x86 (32bit) for VS 2008
  • Un-tested: Cygwin suite (building with cygwin gcc not supported, but the cygwin shell environment can be used to run git, svn, etc).

Qt library requirements

• Use one of the links provided in the table below to download the source code or binary of Qt. If required, you can download the source code and compile Qt using the instructions in Slicer4: Build Instructions for Qt.

	Linux		Mac		Windows
			Tiger	Leopard, SnowLeopard	VS2008		VS2010
	32bits	64bits	32bits	64bits	32bits	64bits	32bits	64bits
Qt source link	4.7.4		4.7.4	4.7.4	4.7.4		4.7.4
Qt binary link	SDK-1.1.4	SDK-1.1.4	carbon_4.7.0	cocoa_4.7.4	4.7.4	-	4.7.4	-

Qt version specific issues

Qt 4.6 on mac: hard to compile (tbd: be more specific)

Qt 4.6.x on windows (and possibly in linux/mac): No image base64 support in QLabel/QTooltips (work around exists though)

Qt 4.7 on mac: click outside of popup (http://na-mic.org/Mantis/view.php?id=1241) Fixed in Qt 4.8 ?

Qt 4.7.3 in mac: http://na-mic.org/Mantis/view.php?id=1388 (fixed in Qt 4.7.4)

Qt 4.8 does not work with PythonQt in slicer4 - suggested version is 4.7.4

How to change the minimum required version

• It's indeed possible to use a different version, just be aware that moving forward in time, things may not work as expected.

• Solution: Configure Slicer using -DSlicer_REQUIRED_QT_VERSION:STRING=4.7.0