Documentation/4.1/Developers/Build Instructions/Prerequisites
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Please check that the following tools are installed on your machine.
Required tools and libraries
Qt libraries are required. Consider reading Qt requirements. |
Linux
Ubuntu
- Ubuntu users, just type the following line in a terminal
sudo apt-get install subversion gcc g++ libX11-dev libXt-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev libglu1-mesa-dev git cmake cmake-curses-gui libfontconfig-dev libxrender-dev
- libXt-devel (libXt-dev)
- opengl/mesa (libgl1-mesa-dev and libosmesa6-dev)
- glu (libglu1-mesa-dev)
libX11-devel (libX11-dev on Ubuntu 7.04)
Debian squeeze
sudo apt-get install gcc libX11-dev libXt-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev libglu1-mesa-dev gitcmakecmake-curses-guilibqt4-devsubversion make g++ libfontconfig-dev libxrender-dev
- Debian squeeze has cmake 2.8.2 and Qt 4.6.3. You will need to install newer versions of these packages.
Debian testing (wheezy)
sudo apt-get install gcc libX11-dev libXt-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev libglu1-mesa-dev git cmake cmake-curses-gui libqt4-dev subversion make g++ libfontconfig-dev libxrender-dev
CentOS
- CentOS user type:
yum install gcc-c++ libX11-devel libXt-devel make libXext-devel libGLU-devel mesa-libOSMesa-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel ncurses
glx-utils provides glxgears that can be used to test rendering
Generic (need to confirm)
- CMake >= 2.8.8
- Git >= 1.6.5
- An easy way to get all of the packages needed to build Slicer is to install all of the packages needed to build paraview (another vtk-based program)
- sudo apt-get install aptitude
- sudo aptitude build-dep paraview
- gcc
- gcc-c++
- libX11
Mac
- Mac Os X >= 10.5 (Leopard)
- CMake >= 2.8.8
- Git >= 1.6.5
- XCode (for the SDK libs)
- Newer Xcode versions (e.g. 4.3.2) use clang as the default compiler and clang is not compatible with ITK version 3. You should use ITK version 4 with recent versions of Xcode.
- Xcode with gcc should work with either version of ITK.
- XQuartz >= 2.7.2 for Mountain Lion
Windows
- CMake >= 2.8.8
- Git >= 1.6.5.
- Git-1.7.9-preview20120201.exe recommended.
- Use of TortoiseGit is optional.
- For convenience, you could update the PATH variable so that git can be automatically discovered when configuring Slicer. If not, you will have to specify the GIT_EXECUTABLE at configure time.
- SVN (e.g. SlikSvn or cygwin's svn client)
- IDE
- Tested/Recommended: Microsoft Visual Studio 9 2008 (Any edition).
- Experimental: The plan is to support Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Any edition).
- Un-tested: Cygwin suite (building with cygwin gcc not supported, but the cygwin shell environment can be used to run git, svn, etc).
- NSIS (optional): Needed if packaging Slicer - Click here to download.