Documentation/4.1/Developers/Build Instructions
Contents
- 1 PREREQUISITES
- 2 CHECKOUT slicer source files
- 3 CONFIGURE and generate Slicer solution files
- 4 BUILD Slicer4
- 5 RUN Slicer
- 6 DEBUG Slicer
- 7 Common errors
- 7.1 A tool returned an error code from "Generating vtksysProcessFwd9xEnc.c"
- 7.2 error: ‘class QList<QString>’ has no member named ‘reserve’
- 7.3 libarchive.so: undefined reference to `SHA256_Update'
- 7.4 A tool returned an error code from "Performing configure step for ..."
- 7.5 A tool returned an error code from "Performing download step (git clone) for ..."
- 7.6 No rule to make target `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so'
- 7.7 X11 Window errors at start time
- 7.8 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'ssize_t'
- 8 Platform Notes
- 9 Quick Build on Debian
PREREQUISITES
Common errors,
we
STRONGLY
recommend to read the
Prerequisites
section.
CHECKOUT slicer source files
Two options: svn
or git-svn
To make review and integration of your welcome contributions, we recommends the use of git-svn
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While it is not enforced, we strongly recommend you to AVOID the use of SPACES for both the source directory and the build directory . We mean it. |
Note that even if you use svn
to check out Slicer source code, you will need to have git
installed to checkout and build other libraries. YES, you need to install the things listed in the prerequisites !.
Using git-svn
git clone git://github.com/Slicer/Slicer.git cd Slicer git svn init http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer4/trunk git update-ref refs/remotes/git-svn refs/remotes/origin/master git checkout master git svn rebase
Consider reading the following page: Slicer guide to git-svn
Using svn
cd MyProjects svn co http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer4/trunk Slicer
Note: be sure to name your source directory 'Slicer' for compatibility with the build process.
CONFIGURE and generate Slicer solution files
You can configure and generate Slicer solution files using either ccmake
or cmake-gui
.
Per-platform instructions
Windows
- Recommended:
cmake-gui
- Configure using default options.
- Set the build directory. For example:
C:\Slicer4-SuperBuild-Debug
orC:\Slicer4-SuperBuild-Release
- Remarks:
- If you downloaded the Qt binary then
qmake
will be detected and all paths will be set automatically. - If you built your own Qt (e.g. in Debug mode for use with the designer) set the
QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE
incmake-gui
.QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE
should be set to the path of the qmake.exe file, which is inside the bin directory (for example,\path\to\qt-everywhere-opensource-build-4.7.4\bin\qmake.exe
). - Windows doesn't support path longer than 260 characters, please make sure that the total path name of your
Slicer-build
directory is no longer than 50 characters ( for examplec:\work\Slicer\Slicer-Superbuild
(32 characters) is fine)
Unix-like
- Recommended:
ccmake
- Configure using the following commands. By default CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is set to Debug.
mkdir Slicer4-SuperBuild-Debug cd Slicer4-SuperBuild-Debug ccmake -DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=/path/to/QtSDK-1.2/Desktop/Qt/474/gcc/bin/qmake ../Slicer
where you replace /path/to with the real path on your machine where QtSDK-1.2 is located
- Remarks:
- Using top-level directory name like
Slicer-Superbuild-Release
orSlicer-Superbuild-Debug
is recommended.
General information
Two projects are generated by either cmake
, ccmake
or cmake-gui
.
One of them is in the top-level bin directory Slicer4-Superbuild
and the other one is in the subdirectory Slicer-build
:
Slicer4-Superbuild/Slicer-build
- The first project in
Slicer4-Superbuild
manages all the external dependencies of Slicer (VTK, ITK, Python, ...). To build Slicer for the first time, run make (or build the solution file in Visual Studio) inSlicer4-Superbuild
, which will update and build the external libraries and if successful will then build the subproject Slicer-build. - The second project in
Slicer4-Superbuild/Slicer-build
is the "traditional" build directory of Slicer. After local changes in Slicer (or after an svn update on the source directory of Slicer), only running make (or building the solution file in Visual Studio) inSlicer4-Superbuild/Slicer-build
is necessary (the external libraries are considered built and up to date). - Warning: An significant amount of disk space is required to compile Slicer in Debug (>10GB on Windows)
Workaround firewall blocking git protocol
- Some firewall will be blocking the git protocol, a possible workaround is to configure Slicer disabling the option
Slicer_USE_GIT_PROTOCOL
. Then http protocol will be used instead. Consider also reading https://github.com/commontk/CTK/issues/33
Notes for advanced users
- By default, if CMake finds Java on your machine, it automatically builds Java CLIs. If you don't want any Java in your Slicer (or if you don't want to install Java on your Mac Os X), you can pass
-DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_Java:BOOL=TRUE
when configuring Slicer. - Same applies for OpenSSL:
CMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_OpenSSL:BOOL=TRUE
can be passed when building Slicer for packaging.
BUILD Slicer4
After configuration, start the build process in the Slicer4-SuperBuild
directory
Per-platform instructions
Windows
- Open
Slicer4-SuperBuild\Slicer.sln
in Visual Studio - Select your build configuration. Usually Release of Debug
- Build the
ALL_BUILD
project.
- If you make local changes to Slicer4, open the solution file located in the directory
Slicer4-SuperBuild/Slicer-build
instead. You should then be able to either build all projects or just a specific one.
Unix-like
cd ~/Projects/Slicer4-SuperBuild make -j<NUMBEROFCORES>
RUN Slicer
Per-platform instructions
Windows
Run Slicer4-SuperBuild/Slicer-build/Slicer.exe
Unix-like
Run Slicer4-SuperBuild/Slicer-build/Slicer
DEBUG Slicer
Per-platform instructions
Windows
- Make sure you build Slicer using the Debug configuration.
- Open a windows terminal
cmd.exe
- Execute the following command:
cd \path\to\Slicer4-SuperBuild\Slicer-build Slicer.exe --VisualStudio Slicer.sln
Unix-like
NA
Common errors
A tool returned an error code from "Generating vtksysProcessFwd9xEnc.c"
The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail. Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from "Generating vtksysProcessFwd9xEnc.c"
Install SP1 of Visual Studio
error: ‘class QList<QString>’ has no member named ‘reserve’
/nfs/Users/blowekamp/QtSDK/Desktop/Qt/474/gcc/include/QtCore/qdatastream.h: In function ‘QDataStream& operator>>(QDataStream&, QList<T>&) [with T = QString]’: /nfs/Users/blowekamp/QtSDK/Desktop/Qt/474/gcc/include/QtCore/qstringlist.h:247: instantiated from here /nfs/Users/blowekamp/QtSDK/Desktop/Qt/474/gcc/include/QtCore/qdatastream.h:246: error: ‘class QList<QString>’ has no member named ‘reserve’
You have multiple Qt versions installed on your machine. Try removing the Qt version installed on the system.
libarchive.so: undefined reference to `SHA256_Update'
Linking CXX executable ../../../../../bin/MRMLLogicCxxTests /home/benjaminlong/work/slicer/Slicer4-Superbuild-Debug/LibArchive-install/lib/libarchive.so: undefined reference to `SHA256_Update' /home/benjaminlong/work/slicer/Slicer4-Superbuild-Debug/LibArchive-install/lib/libarchive.so: undefined reference to `SHA256_Final' /home/benjaminlong/work/slicer/Slicer4-Superbuild-Debug/LibArchive-install/lib/libarchive.so: undefined reference to `SHA256_Init' /home/benjaminlong/work/slicer/Slicer4-Superbuild-Debug/LibArchive-install/lib/libarchive.so: undefined reference to `MD5_Init'
Solution:
cd Slicer-superbuild rm -rf LibArchive-* make -j4
Details:
- http://na-mic.org/Mantis/view.php?id=1616
- http://viewvc.slicer.org/viewvc.cgi/Slicer4?view=revision&revision=18923
- http://viewvc.slicer.org/viewvc.cgi/Slicer4?view=revision&revision=18969
A tool returned an error code from "Performing configure step for ..."
CMake has some problems building complex projects on Windows7. See more details in: http://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=12957
A fix has been already identified and soon will be available in an official CMake release (probably 2.8.8). Until then this unofficial version can be used (based on CMake-2.8.7): https://qshare.queensu.ca/Users01/lasso/public/cmake-2.8.7.12957-win32-x86.exe
A tool returned an error code from "Performing download step (git clone) for ..."
CMake has problems cloning git repositories on Windows7. See more details in http://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=12564
If you think the described problem is the same as you have, please add your specific error message to the bug report (the more people report the problem the sooner it will be fixed).
No rule to make target `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so'
See http://techtidings.blogspot.com/2012/01/problem-with-libglso-on-64-bit-ubuntu.html
X11 Window errors at start time
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Extension: 137 (Uknown extension) Minor opcode: 4 (Unknown request) Resource id: 0x4200199 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Extension: 137 (Uknown extension) Minor opcode: 4 (Unknown request) Resource id: 0x42001a6 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Extension: 137 (Uknown extension) Minor opcode: 4 (Unknown request) Resource id: 0x42001b3
Solution:
- Reinstall Nvidia drivers (that also rewrite the xorg.conf file).
error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'ssize_t'
4>1>Compiling... 4>1>version.c 4>1>c:\chene\winbin64\slicer4\cmcurl\urldata.h(585) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'ssize_t' 4>1>c:\chene\winbin64\slicer4\cmcurl\urldata.h(593) : error C2365: 'fread' : redefinition; previous definition was 'function' 4>1> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\stdio.h(248) : see declaration of 'fread' 4>1>c:\chene\winbin64\slicer4\cmcurl\urldata.h(610) : error C2059: syntax error : '}'
Solution:
* See #A_tool_returned_an_error_code_from_.22Performing_configure_step_for_....22
Platform Notes
- Linux Ubuntu: if you have odd rendering artifacts, try disabling visual effects (System/Appearance/Visual Effects)
- Windows: If build was OK, but it Slicer doesn't start (gives the error: [bin/Release/SlicerQT-real.exe] exit abnormally - Report the problem.) then one possible root cause is that you have a copy of Python26.dll in your windows system directory (e.g., c:\Windows\System32\python26.dll). The solution is to rename or remove the python dll in the system directory. See more details here: http://www.na-mic.org/Bug/view.php?id=1180
Quick Build on Debian
sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude install subversion git gcc g++ make cmake-curses-gui libqt4-dev svn co http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer4/trunk Slicer4 mkdir Slicer4-SuperBuild-Debug cd Slicer4-SuperBuild-Debug cmake ../Slicer4 make -j5 # runtime dependency: sudo aptitude install python-tk