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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

  • 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
wget http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/cmake-2.8.10.2-Linux-i386.tar.gz
tar -xzvf cmake-2.8.10.2-Linux-i386.tar.gz

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

Windows

  • CMake >= 2.8.9
  • Qt 4.7.4 or 4.8.4. See details here
  • Git-X.X.X-preview2013XXXX.exe recommended.
    • Note 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 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.