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Common Prerequisites

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Common Prerequisites: Add example Qt 5 guide

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Tested and recommended build environment: Update Windows build environments

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 ====Common Prerequisites====
-*[{{tool|download|cmake}} CMake] >= 3.13.4
+*[{{tool|download|cmake}} CMake] >= 3.15.1
 *[{{tool|download|git}} Git] >= 1.7.10
 <!--
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 *NSIS (optional): Needed if packaging Slicer - Click [http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download here] to download. Make sure you install the language packs.
-*Qt5: Download download Qt 5.10.0 installer from [https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.10/5.10.0 here] and install Qt along with <tt>qtscript</tt> and <tt>qtwebengine</tt> components (5.10.x version is not available in the [https://download.qt.io/official_releases/online_installers/qt-unified-windows-x86-online.exe unified installer]). For building with VS2015, Qt version 5.10.x or older is required (newer versions do not compile with VS2015 due to QWebEngine minimum requirement is VS2017). For more details, read [[Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Build Instructions/Prerequisites/Qt5|step-by-step]] guide.
+*Qt5: Download download Qt universal installer from [https://www.qt.io/download-open-source here] and install Qt 5.15 along with <tt>qtscript</tt> and <tt>qtwebengine</tt> components. For examples of the installation procedure, see this [[Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Build Instructions/Prerequisites/Qt5|step-by-step]] guide.
 ====Tested and recommended build environment====
-*VS2015 (Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64)
+*VS2017 (Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64)
-**Make sure you enable installation of component ''Programming languages / Visual C++ / Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015'' (in some distributions, this option is not enabled by default)
+*VS2019 (Visual Studio 16 2019 Win64)
-**Installation of [https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt752379.aspx Cumulative Servicing Release for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (KB3165756)] is required on some older VS2015 distributions
+*Older VS toolsets can be used with newer IDES
-*Qt 5.10
+**When configuring Visual Studio installer, enable installation of Visual Studio 2017 (v141) or Visual Studio 2015 (v140) toolsets
-*CMake >= 3.13.4
+**For older toolsets,  must be set in CMake: ''Optional toolset to use (argument to -T)'' need to be set to ''v141'' or ''v140''
 ====Experimental/deprecated build environments====
-*[https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/ Visual Studio 2017 or 2019 (Community or any other edition)] with VS2017 build tools (tested, works well)
+*VS2015 (Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64) Update 3
-**When configuring Visual Studio installer, enable installation of Visual Studio 2017 (v141) toolset
+**Requires Qt 5.10.x to build due to QtWebEngine.  For more details, read this [[Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Build Instructions/Prerequisites/Qt5|step-by-step]] guide to download and install.
 *Cygwin (untested, probably does not work)
 **Cygwin suite (building with cygwin gcc not supported, but the cygwin shell environment can be used to run git, svn, etc).

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 ===Linux===
-*[{{tool|download|cmake}} CMake] >= 3.15.1
+*[{{tool|download|cmake}} CMake] >= 3.13.4
 *[{{tool|download|git}} Git] >= 1.7.10
 *[{{tool|download|svn}} Svn] >= 1.7
-*Qt 5.15: <b>tested and recommended</b>
+*Qt 5.11: <b>tested and recommended</b>
 **To build Slicer: install Qt using the distribution package manager.
 **To package and redistribute Slicer: download and execute [https://download.qt.io/official_releases/online_installers/qt-unified-linux-x64-online.run qt-unified-linux-x64-online.run], install Qt, make sure to select <tt>qtscript</tt> and <tt>qtwebengine</tt> components.
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 sudo apt-get install curl
 mkdir ~/Support && cd ~/Support
-curl -O https://cmake.org/files/v3.15/cmake-3.15.1-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
+curl -O https://cmake.org/files/v3.13/cmake-3.13.4-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
-tar -xzvf cmake-3.15.1-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
+tar -xzvf cmake-3.13.4-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
 </pre>
 </li>
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 mkdir -p ~/bin
 for name in cmake ctest cpack ccmake cmake-gui; do
-   ln -s ~/Support/cmake-3.15.1-Linux-x86_64/bin/$name ~/bin/$name
+   ln -s ~/Support/cmake-3.13.4-Linux-x86_64/bin/$name ~/bin/$name
 done
 </pre>
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 ====Common Prerequisites====
-*[{{tool|download|cmake}} CMake] >= 3.15.1
+*[{{tool|download|cmake}} CMake] >= 3.13.4
 *[{{tool|download|git}} Git] >= 1.7.10
 <!--
@@ Line 272: / Line 272: @@
 *NSIS (optional): Needed if packaging Slicer - Click [http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download here] to download. Make sure you install the language packs.
-*Qt5: Download download Qt universal installer from [https://www.qt.io/download-open-source here] and install Qt 5.15 along with <tt>qtscript</tt> and <tt>qtwebengine</tt> components. For examples of the installation procedure, see this [[Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Build Instructions/Prerequisites/Qt5|step-by-step]] guide.
+*Qt5: Download download Qt 5.10.0 installer from [https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.10/5.10.0 here] and install Qt along with <tt>qtscript</tt> and <tt>qtwebengine</tt> components (5.10.x version is not available in the [https://download.qt.io/official_releases/online_installers/qt-unified-windows-x86-online.exe unified installer]). For building with VS2015, Qt version 5.10.x or older is required (newer versions do not compile with VS2015 due to QWebEngine minimum requirement is VS2017). For more details, read [[Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Build Instructions/Prerequisites/Qt5|step-by-step]] guide.
 ====Tested and recommended build environment====
-*VS2017 (Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64)
+*VS2015 (Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64)
-*VS2019 (Visual Studio 16 2019 Win64)
+**Make sure you enable installation of component ''Programming languages / Visual C++ / Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015'' (in some distributions, this option is not enabled by default)
-*Older VS toolsets can be used with newer IDES
+**Installation of [https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt752379.aspx Cumulative Servicing Release for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (KB3165756)] is required on some older VS2015 distributions
-**When configuring Visual Studio installer, enable installation of Visual Studio 2017 (v141) or Visual Studio 2015 (v140) toolsets
+*Qt 5.10
-**For older toolsets,  must be set in CMake: ''Optional toolset to use (argument to -T)'' need to be set to ''v141'' or ''v140''
+*CMake >= 3.13.4
 ====Experimental/deprecated build environments====
-*VS2015 (Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64) Update 3
+*[https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/ Visual Studio 2017 or 2019 (Community or any other edition)] with VS2017 build tools (tested, works well)
-**Requires Qt 5.10.x to build due to QtWebEngine.  For more details, read this [[Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Build Instructions/Prerequisites/Qt5|step-by-step]] guide to download and install.
+**When configuring Visual Studio installer, enable installation of Visual Studio 2017 (v141) toolset
 *Cygwin (untested, probably does not work)
 **Cygwin suite (building with cygwin gcc not supported, but the cygwin shell environment can be used to run git, svn, etc).

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 ===Linux===
-*[{{tool|download|cmake}} CMake] >= 3.13.4
+*[{{tool|download|cmake}} CMake] >= 3.15.1
 *[{{tool|download|git}} Git] >= 1.7.10
 *[{{tool|download|svn}} Svn] >= 1.7
-*Qt 5.11: <b>tested and recommended</b>
+*Qt 5.15: <b>tested and recommended</b>
 **To build Slicer: install Qt using the distribution package manager.
 **To package and redistribute Slicer: download and execute [https://download.qt.io/official_releases/online_installers/qt-unified-linux-x64-online.run qt-unified-linux-x64-online.run], install Qt, make sure to select <tt>qtscript</tt> and <tt>qtwebengine</tt> components.
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 sudo apt-get install curl
 mkdir ~/Support && cd ~/Support
-curl -O https://cmake.org/files/v3.13/cmake-3.13.4-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
+curl -O https://cmake.org/files/v3.15/cmake-3.15.1-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
-tar -xzvf cmake-3.13.4-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
+tar -xzvf cmake-3.15.1-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
 </pre>
 </li>
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 mkdir -p ~/bin
 for name in cmake ctest cpack ccmake cmake-gui; do
-   ln -s ~/Support/cmake-3.13.4-Linux-x86_64/bin/$name ~/bin/$name
+   ln -s ~/Support/cmake-3.15.1-Linux-x86_64/bin/$name ~/bin/$name
 done
 </pre>

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 *NSIS (optional): Needed if packaging Slicer - Click [http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download here] to download. Make sure you install the language packs.
-*Qt5: Download download Qt universal installer from [https://www.qt.io/download-open-source here] and install Qt 5.15 along with <tt>qtscript</tt> and <tt>qtwebengine</tt> components. For and examples of the installation procedure, read this [[Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Build Instructions/Prerequisites/Qt5|step-by-step]] guide.
+*Qt5: Download download Qt universal installer from [https://www.qt.io/download-open-source here] and install Qt 5.15 along with <tt>qtscript</tt> and <tt>qtwebengine</tt> components. For examples of the installation procedure, see this [[Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Build Instructions/Prerequisites/Qt5|step-by-step]] guide.
 ====Tested and recommended build environment====
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 *VS2015 (Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64) Update 3
-**Requires Qt 5.10.x to build due to QtWebEngine.  For more details, read [[Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Build Instructions/Prerequisites/Qt5|step-by-step]] guide to download and install.
+**Requires Qt 5.10.x to build due to QtWebEngine.  For more details, read this [[Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Build Instructions/Prerequisites/Qt5|step-by-step]] guide to download and install.
 *Cygwin (untested, probably does not work)
 **Cygwin suite (building with cygwin gcc not supported, but the cygwin shell environment can be used to run git, svn, etc).

@@ Line 272: / Line 272: @@
 *NSIS (optional): Needed if packaging Slicer - Click [http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download here] to download. Make sure you install the language packs.
-*Qt5: Download download Qt universal installer from [https://www.qt.io/download-open-source here] and install Qt 5.15 along with <tt>qtscript</tt> and <tt>qtwebengine</tt> components.
+*Qt5: Download download Qt universal installer from [https://www.qt.io/download-open-source here] and install Qt 5.15 along with <tt>qtscript</tt> and <tt>qtwebengine</tt> components. For and examples of the installation procedure, read this [[Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Build Instructions/Prerequisites/Qt5|step-by-step]] guide.
 ====Tested and recommended build environment====