Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Build Instructions/Prerequisites

PREREQUISITES

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

Consider reading platform specific requirements listed below.

Linux

• CMake >= 2.8.9
• Git >= 1.6.5
• Qt 4.7.4 or 4.8.4. See details here

Ubuntu / Debian

For Ubuntu 13.04 note that you must download or install the standard cmake from [1] because the version of cmake that comes with Ubuntu 13.04 cannot be used to build slicer.

• Ubuntu, Debian squeeze, Debian testing (wheezy) users, just type the following line in a terminal

sudo apt-get install subversion git-core
sudo apt-get install make gcc g++ libX11-dev libXt-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa6-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libfontconfig-dev libxrender-dev

mkdir ~/Support & cd Support     # This is where we will download and install required software

# By copying this one-liner in your terminal, it will download and extract CMake
cmake_package="cmake-2.8.10.2-Linux-i386"; \
wget http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/$cmake_package.tar.gz -v -O $cmake_package.tar.gz && \
tar -xzvf $cmake_package.tar.gz;

# By copying this one-liner, symbolic links to cmake tools will be created in /usr/local/bin. 
# That way calling cmake, ctest, ... from the command line will resolve to this version of CMake.
for tool in cmake ccmake ctest cpack; do sudo ln -s ~/$cmake_package/bin/$tool /usr/local/bin/$tool; done

CentOS

• CentOS user type:

yum install make gcc-c++ libX11-devel libXt-devel libXext-devel libGLU-devel mesa-libOSMesa-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel ncurses

MacOSX

• Mac Os X >= 10.5 (Leopard)
• CMake >= 2.8.9
  • For Mac Os X >= 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and/or recent XCode >= 4.5.X - CMake >= 2.8.11 is required. Waiting for the official release, get the release candidate rc1 here. For explanation, see here and here. These versions are also known to work: exact version 20130121-g92bd8 here (or version >= 2.8.10.20130220 here).

$ curl -O http://www.cmake.org/files/dev/cmake-2.8.10.20130121-g92bd8-Darwin-universal.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf cmake-2.8.10.20130121-g92bd8-Darwin-universal.tar.gz --strip-components=1
$ mv CMake\ 2.8-10.app/ CMake\ 2.8-10.20130121-g92bd8.app

$ CMake\ 2.8-10.20130121-g92bd8.app/Contents/bin/cmake --version
cmake version 2.8.10.20130121-g92bd8

• Git >= 1.6.5
• XCode (for the SDK libs)
• Qt 4.7.4 or 4.8.4. See details here
• XQuartz - For Mac Os X >= 10.8 (Mountain Lion) install XQuartz (http://xquartz.macosforge.org) to get X11 (no longer a default in OS X).

Windows

• CMake >= 2.8.9
• Qt 4.7.4 or 4.8.4. See details here
• Git-X.X.X-preview2013XXXX.exe recommended.
  • 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.
• SlikSvn
• IDE
  • Tested/Recommended: Microsoft Visual Studio 9 2008 (Any edition).
    • Make sure to install:
      • SP1. Click here to download SP1 and click here to understand the motivation.
  • Experimental: The plan is to support Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Any edition). NOTE THAT EXPERIMENTAL MEANS THIS DOESN'T YET WORK :)
    • Make sure to install:
      • SP1. Click here to download SP1 and click here to understand the motivation.
      • SP1 Compiler update. Click here to download and here to understand the motivation.
  • 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.