Documentation/4.0/Developers/Build Instructions

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Overview

Superbuild is a new

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, Generate the solution files and Build