Documentation/Labs/Qt5-and-VTK8

This page will document experiments related to the upgrade of Slicer base to Qt5.

Progress

• VTK:
  • Basic support: Done
    • 384636ec - COMP 12945: Allow VTK to build against Qt5
    • e4e3dfa71 - COMP 12945: Fix Qt5 specific build error related to vtkQtCxxTests
    • c055be00a - ENH: Add VTK_QT_VERSION to the VTK global config. options.
    • eeba833c42 - Make Qt examples build with either Qt4 or Qt5.
  • Quick support: To Be Done

• CTK support: In progress - https://github.com/commontk/CTK/issues/277

• Slicer build system upgrade: To be done

• ITKv4: NA

• PythonQt: In progress - See https://github.com/commontk/PythonQt/tree/add-qt5-support

• Qt 4.8 support schedule info: http://slicer-devel.65872.n3.nabble.com/Fwd-Qt-4-8-x-support-extended-out-by-a-year-td4033248.html