Documentation/4.0/Developers/Build Instructions

Overview

Superbuild is a new

How to get started ?

• Prerequisites - Download (and if required compile) Qt - Use one of the link provided below:

	Linux		Mac				Windows
			Tiger		SnowLeopard
	32bits	64bits	32bits	64bits	32bits	64bits	32bits	64bits
Qt source link	4.6.2				4.7 beta		4.6.2
Qt binary link	4.6.2	4.6.2	4.6.2		4.7 beta		4.6.2 (vs2008)	-

How to build Qt ?

Configure options common to all platform:

Check our different tutorials: - Build Qt on Windows - Build Qt on Linux - Build Qt on Mac

• Step1 : Checkout slicer sources using subversion

For example:

cd MyProjects
svn co http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer3/trunk

• Step2 : Configure slicer project using either ccmake or cmake-gui - The grids displayed below summarized the available options

Using ccmake:

mkdir Slicer3-SuperBuild
cd Slicer3-SuperBuild
ccmake -DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=/home/myself/qt-4.6.2/qt/bin/qmake ../Slicer3/SuperBuild

Using cmake-gui

Where is the source code: C:/MyProjects/Slicer3/SuperBuild
Where to build the binaries: C:/MyProjects/Slicer3-Superbuild

Set of options and supported plateforms:

Description	Options				Platform
	Slicer3_USE_KWWIDGETS	Slicer3_USE_PYTHON	Slicer3_USE_QT	Slicer3_USE_PYTHONQT	Linux	Mac	windows
Kww-Python DEFAULT	ON	ON	OFF	OFF	Y	Y	Y
Kww-NoPython	ON	OFF	OFF	OFF	Y	Y	Y
KwwAndQt-Python	ON	ON	ON	OFF	Y	N	Y
Qt-NoPythonQt	OFF	OFF	ON	OFF	Y	Y	Y
Qt-PythonQt	OFF	OFF	ON	ON	Y	Y	Y

what is the difference between Python and PythonQt ?

• Step3: Configure and Generate the solution files

• Step4: Build