Hi Miranda,
you can use MITK with your own libraries as well, e.g. if you build a
VTK 5.6.1 yourself you can set the VTK_DIR to this build tree in the
MITK configuration and the superbuild won't download and build VTK. The
same applies for the other 3rd party libraries. You can have a look at
the files in CMakeExternals to see how it works. There you will also
find the options we use to build the toolkits, other options may or may
not work.
The source codes in http://mitk.org/download/thirdparty are not
specific. If we change something there we do it with a patch step in
superbuild (like for DCMTK) or will mark it clearly as a modified version.
Please note that for GDCM there is an unresolved compilation issue with
GDCM > 2.0.15 and ITK 3.20, a workaround is described here:
http://bugs.mitk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8801 .
Using the latest git-Versions of these libraries could work but is
generally unsupported. If you want to contribute changes to MITK to make
it compatible with these versions we would be happy to integrate them.
Best,
Marco
On 08/05/2011 11:11 PM, Miranda Jacobson wrote:
Hello,
I am curious if MITK needs to be built and used with the VTK, ITK,
and GDCM that MITK downloads when the superbuild is performed. I want
to be able to build MITK without being forced to download the third
party libraries but wanted to clarify which versions I need to build
myself. Are the versions on http://mitk.org/download/thirdparty
specific?? If I download a generic version of VTK5.6.1 from the VTK
website will MITK still work? I had read on the mitk mailing list
“recently we improved the DICOM reading code in mitk::DicomSeriesReader.
Since this class was getting really complicated (it supported GDCM
before and after 2.0, plus ITK's DICOMIO) and most of the functional,
new code relied on GDCM 2, we decided to remove support for other options.
A consequence of this is that MITK core now requires ITK to be built
with a custom compile of GDCM (2.0.14 is the version that is currently
built by super-build). We are sorry if this causes inconveniences for you.
We hope this change will benefit any developers who want to understand
or improve DicomSeriesReader and it will also make sure that more
DICOM images are loaded correctly with MITK.”
So this made me think that if I git the ITK and GDCM repositories
from their specific sites hat MITK will not compile or run. Can you
please clarify if MITK needs specific versions. I would like to be
able to clone the VTK, ITK, and GCDM repositories from their own site
so I can benefit from bug fixes and added features.
Thank you,
Miranda Jacobson
Software Engineer
Eigen, Inc.
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