Documentation/4.0/Developers/Build Instructions/Prerequisites

Build Instructions←

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

Required tools and libraries

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++

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

• CentOS user type:

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

Mac

• • Mac Os X >= 10.5 (Leopard)
  • git version >= 1.6.5
    • Download and install Git
  • CMake version >= 2.8.6
  • XCode (for the SDK libs)

Linux (need to confirm)

• • 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
  • libX11-devel (libX11-dev on Ubuntu 7.04)
  • libXt-devel (libXt-dev on Ubuntu)
  • opengl/mesa (libgl1-mesa-dev on Ubuntu) (and libosmesa6-dev on Ubuntu)
  • glu (libglu1-mesa-dev on Ubuntu)
  • git version >= 1.6.5
    • Download Git
    • install git: sudo apt-get install git. If git --version is inferior to 1.6.5, then:sudo dpkg --install git-core_1.6.5-1~bpo50+1_amd64.deb
  • CMake version >= 2.8.4

Windows

• • IDE:
    • Prefered: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or 2010 (including Express Edition).See #1548
    • Cygwin suite
  • CMake version >= 2.8.4
  • SVN (e.g. SlikSvn)
  • CVS
  • git version >= 1.6.5. msysgit is recommended. Using TortoiseGit is a plus.

Qt library

	Linux		Mac		Windows
			Tiger	Leopard, SnowLeopard
	32bits	64bits	32bits	64bits	32bits	64bits
Qt source link	4.6.3				4.6.3 (vs2008) 4.7.3 (vs2010)
Qt binary link	x86_2010.05	x86_64_2010.05	carbon_4.7.0	cocoa_4.7.0	4.6.3 (vs2008) 4.7.3 (vs2010)	-