Documentation/Nightly/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 git-core
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ libX11-dev libXt-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libfontconfig-dev libxrender-dev

Debian squeeze

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

• Debian squeeze has cmake 2.8.2 and Qt 4.6.3. You will need to install newer versions of these packages.

Debian testing (wheezy)

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

CentOS

• CentOS user type:

yum install gcc-c++ libX11-devel libXt-devel make libXext-devel libGLU-devel mesa-libOSMesa-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel ncurses

glx-utils provides glxgears that can be used to test rendering

Generic (need to confirm)

• CMake >= 2.8.8
• 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 >= 2.8.8
• Git >= 1.6.5
• XCode (for the SDK libs)
  • Newer Xcode versions (e.g. 4.3.2) use clang as the default compiler and clang is not compatible with ITK version 3. You should use ITK version 4 with recent versions of Xcode.
  • Xcode with gcc should work with either version of ITK.
  • OS X Mountain Lion: In Xcode 4.5 you now need to install command line tools (no longer included by default). Install within Xcode under the Xcode->Preferences->Downloads tab (otherwise git svn will give errors). Then you will need to install XQuartz (http://xquartz.macosforge.org) to get X11 (no longer a default in OS X).

Windows

• CMake >= 2.8.8
• Git >= 1.6.5.
  • Git-1.7.9-preview20120201.exe 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).
    • Make sure to install:
      • SP1. Click here to download SP1 and click here to understand the motivation.
  • Experimental: The plan is to support Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Any edition). NOTE THAT EXPERIMENTAL MEANS THIS DOESN'T YET WORK :)
    • 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.
  • Un-tested: Cygwin suite (building with cygwin gcc not supported, but the cygwin shell environment can be used to run git, svn, etc).
• NSIS (optional): Needed if packaging Slicer - Click here to download.