Documentation/Labs/VTK6

This page will document experiments related to the upgrade of Slicer base to VTK6.

References

• http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/116
• http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/509
• http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/508

Build System

• VTK_6 build system Migration Guide

Migration Guide

This section documents required change to make Slicer code work with VTK6.

• See VTK_6 Migration Guide

Progress

• VTK6 has been integrated into Slicer trunk. It is disabled by default. To enable it, pass the option -DVTK_VERSION_MAJOR:STRING=6

• See https://docs.google.com/a/kitware.com/document/d/1tT4VBJtt6U0LUEyaNaW7hJIVbb2XqBdyEbQyfsmUq9I