Documentation/4.0/Developers/Build Instructions/Prerequisites

Build Instructions/←

Please check that the following tools are installed on your machine.

• Debian Squeeze user type:

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++

• 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

• CentOS user type:

yum install gcc-c++ libX11-devel libXt-devel make

• Mac
  • Mac Os X >= 10.5 (Leopard)
  • git version >= 1.6.5
    • Download and install Git
  • CMake version >= 2.8.6
  • XCode (for the SDK libs)

• Linux prerequisites (need to confirm)
  • 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
  • libX11-devel (libX11-dev on Ubuntu 7.04)
  • libXt-devel (libXt-dev on Ubuntu)
  • opengl/mesa (libgl1-mesa-dev on Ubuntu) (and libosmesa6-dev on Ubuntu)
  • glu (libglu1-mesa-dev on Ubuntu)
  • git version >= 1.6.5
    • Download Git
    • install git: sudo apt-get install git. If git --version is inferior to 1.6.5, then:sudo dpkg --install git-core_1.6.5-1~bpo50+1_amd64.deb
  • CMake version >= 2.8.4

• Windows prerequisites
  • IDE:
    • Prefered: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or 2010 (including Express Edition).See #1548
    • Cygwin suite
  • CMake version >= 2.8.4
  • SVN (e.g. SlikSvn)
  • CVS
  • git version >= 1.6.5. msysgit is recommended. Using TortoiseGit is a plus.
• All Platforms: Qt. Use one of the links provided in the table below to download the source code or binary of Qt. If required, you can download the source code and compile Qt using the instructions in Slicer4: Build Instructions for Qt.

	Linux		Mac		Windows
			Tiger	Leopard, SnowLeopard
	32bits	64bits	32bits	64bits	32bits	64bits
Qt source link	4.6.3				4.6.3 (vs2008) 4.7.3 (vs2010)
Qt binary link	x86_2010.05	x86_64_2010.05	carbon_4.7.0	cocoa_4.7.0	4.6.3 (vs2008) 4.7.3 (vs2010)	-