Build from source

dcmqi should build on Linux, Mac and Windows. You can confirm this is the case for the current version of the code by looking at the continuous integration (CI) platforms.

• Linux build:

  
• Windows build:

  
• Mac OS X build:

  

Note that the failure icons indicate that something in the dashboard script failed - this could be build error, failed test, failed artifact upload, or failed download of a prerequisite. You will need to check the console output for the specific platform to see if there are problems with the build.

Checking out the source code

We use git/github to maintain the repository. You can clone the repository using this command:

git clone https://github.com/QIICR/dcmqi.git

If you are not familiar with git, there are many guides to help you get started, such as this one that should take about 10 minutes: https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/.

Prerequisites

1. developer environment for your platform (compiler, git)

2. recent version of cmake

Note that you can also see the specific components and steps needed to build dcmqi by looking at the CI configuration scripts (circle.yml for Lunux, .travis.yml for Mac, and appveyor.yml for Windows).

If you would like to run dcmqi tests, you will need to install few extra tools for validating JSON files. These tools depend on npm installed as part of Node.js, and are the following:

• jsonlint

• ajv-cli

Both can be installed with npm as follows:

sudo npm install jsonlint -g
sudo npm install ajv-cli -g

Superbuild approach

With the superbuild approach, all of the dependencies will be build as part of the build process. This approach is the easiest, but also most time-consuming. 1. create dcmqi-superbuild directory 2. configure the project by running cmake <dcmqi source directory> from dcmqi-superbuild 3. run make from the superbuild directory

Non-superbuild approach

You can use this approach if you have (some of) the dependency libraries already built on your platform. dcmqi dependencies are

• DCMTK

• ITK

• SlicerExecutionModel

• zlib

To reuse builds of those libraries, you will need to pass the corresponding variables to cmake as shown in the example below:

cmake DITK_DIR:PATH=C:\ITK-install \ 
  -DSlicerExecutionModel_DIR:PATH=C:\SlicerExecutionModel\SlicerExecutionModel-build \
  -DDCMTK_DIR:PATH=C:\DCMTK-install\cmake  \
  -DZLIB_ROOT:PATH=c:\zlib-install \ 
  -DZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=c:\zlib-install\include \ 
  -DZLIB_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=c:\zlib-install\lib\zlib.lib \
  <dcmqi source directory>

Troubleshooting

• Under certain conditions, line endings may be incorrectly initialized for your platform by the checkout process (reported by @CJGoch in https://github.com/QIICR/dcmqi/issues/14), which may result in errors like below:

dcmqi/dcmqi-build/apps/seg/itkimage2segimageCLP.h:214:1: error: stray ‘\’ in program
{
^
dcmqi/dcmqi-build/apps/seg/itkimage2segimageCLP.h:214:3: warning: missing terminating " character
{
^
dcmqi/dcmqi-build/apps/seg/itkimage2segimageCLP.h:214:1: error: missing terminating " character
{
^

To resolve this, check your global git settings. If you have autocrlf set, you may try setting it to auto.