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\page BuildInstructionsPage Build Instructions

\tableofcontents

\section BuildInstructions_Introduction Introduction

The CMake-based build system of MITK supports a "superbuild" process,
meaning that it will download, configure, and build all required third-party
libraries (except Qt) automatically. These instructions will show you how to use
the MITK superbuild.

\note This page explains explicitly how to build MITK itself. If you want to
create your own project based on MITK, the process described below is completely
automated. Please see \ref HowToNewProject.

For more advanced users, the last sections explains how to inject custom build
libraries into the superbuild process.

\section BuildInstructions_Prerequisites Prerequisites

You need:
  -# Git from http://git-scm.com (there are also numerous third-party graphical
     clients available). We recomment using Git, but see below for a way how to
     get the current source code without using it.
  -# <a href="http://www.cmake.org">CMake</a> (version \minimumCMakeVersion or higher)
  -# <a href="http://qt.io">Qt</a> 5.6 or 5.7.1 if you plan to develop Qt-based
     applications
  -# If you are using <b>Mac OS X</b> you need an XCode installation as it
     provides the neccessary compilers and SDKs

\section BuildInstructions_Qt A note about Qt

As we do not provide Qt in the MITK superbuild you need to install Qt manually.
Installing Qt dramatically improved since Qt 5, as The Qt Company provides
<a href="http://www.qt.io/download/">sophisticated online installers for all
supported platforms</a>.

\section BuildInstructions_Get_Source Get a source tree

Since MITK is under active development we recommend to use Git to check out
the latest stable release from the homepage. If you decide to use the most
current nightly release, make sure to get a stable tree: Check the
<a href="http://cdash.mitk.org/index.php?project=MITK">MITK dashboard</a>
before checking out. If the build tree is not clean, you can specify an
older revision for the checkout or get a stable tar ball from
<a href="http://www.mitk.org">www.mitk.org</a>.

To clone MITK's current Git repository do:

\code
git clone https://phabricator.mitk.org/source/mitk.git MITK
\endcode

\section BuildInstructions_Build_With_CMake Build MITK with CMake

Create a new directory for the superbuild binary tree, change to it and call CMake:

In the shell (assuming your current directory is the same as the one where you
issued the git clone command):
\code
mkdir MITK-superbuild
cd MITK-superbuild
ccmake ../MITK
\endcode

If you use <b>Windows</b> or prefer to use the CMake GUI, start the CMake GUI and enter the
location of the source tree and binary tree, choose a suitable generator
and configure the project.

CMake will present you a couple of options, these are the most important ones:

 - <tt><b>CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH</b></tt> The path to your Qt installation, e.g., <i>C:/Qt/5.6/msvc2013_64</i> or <i>/home/user/Qt/5.6/gcc_64</i>
 - <tt><b>MITK_USE_ACVD</b></tt> Build MITK code which depends on ACVD (this
   will download and build ACVD)
 - <tt><b>MITK_USE_BLUEBERRY</b></tt> Build the BlueBerry application framework
 - <tt><b>MITK_USE_Boost_LIBRARIES</b></tt> If you need binary Boost libraries,
   specify them here.
 - <tt><b>MITK_USE_OpenCV</b></tt> Build MITK code which depends on OpenCV (this
   will download and build OpenCV 2.4)
 - <tt><b>MITK_USE_Python</b></tt> Enables Python wrapping in MITK. This will also
   configure ITK, VTK, and OpenCV (if enabled) to build Python wrappers.
 - <tt><b>MITK_USE_Qt5</b></tt> Build MITK code which depends on Qt 5

If you are satisfied with the configuration of your MITK superbuild, generate
the project files with CMake by pressing "Generate".

<b>Linux</b> and <b>Mac OS X</b> users usually just enter "make" (optionally
supplying the number threads to be used for a parallel build):
\code
make -j6
\endcode

<b>Windows</b> users using Visual Studio can open the generated
<tt>MITK-superbuild.sln</tt> solution file in the <tt>MITK-superbuild</tt>
directory and start the build by building the <tt>BUILD_ALL</tt> project.

\section BuildInstructions_Customize Customize your MITK superbuild

The MITK superbuild configures MITK as well as all external libraries. The
build directories of these libraries, and of MITK itself are located inside
the <tt>MITK-superbuild</tt> directory. For example, the directory layout may
look like:

\code
MITK-superbuild
 |- ep "external projects"
    |-bin
    |-lib
    |-include
    |-src
 |- MITK-build
\endcode

To change the configuration of the MITK build itself, choose the MITK-build directory
as the binary directory in the CMake GUI (not the MITK-superbuild directory).
After generating the project files, build the MITK project by either issuing "make"
in the MITK-build directory (Linux, Mac OS X), or by opening MITK-build/MITK.sln (Windows).

You may also change the configuration of any project configured via the
superbuild process. Make sure to also build the changed project and also the
projects which depend on it.

\section BuildInstructions_Running Running Applications

On Linux, just execute the application you want to run. MITK executables are
located in <tt>MITK-superbuild/MITK-build/bin</tt>

On Windows, the <tt>PATH</tt> environment variable must contain the directories
containing the third-party libraries. This is automatically done from Visual Studio.
For running the applications directly use the generated batch files in the
<tt>MITK-superbuild/MITK-build/bin</tt>.

\section BuildInstructions_Documentation Documentation

If you have the <a href="http://www.doxygen.org">Doxygen</a> documentation tool
installed, you get a new project (Visual Studio) or "make" target named "doc".
You can build this to generate the HTML documentation of MITK in the
Documentation/Doxygen directory of your MITK-build binary tree or in the
<tt>MITK_DOXYGEN_OUTPUT_DIR</tt> CMake variable (if specified).

\section BuildInstructions_Extending Extend MITK on your own (using the application framework BlueBerry)

Please see \ref NewPluginPage

\section BuildInstructions_As_Toolkit Use MITK in your own project (as a toolkit)

To use MITK in your external project, add the CMake command
<code>find_package(MITK REQUIRED)</code> to your CMakeLists.txt and make use of
the CMake macros <code>mitk_create_module()</code> and
<code>mitk_create_executable()</code> provided by MITK.

Here is a very basic example CMakeLists.txt including MITK as a project:
\code
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10 FATAL_ERROR)

project(MyProject)

find_package(MITK 2016.11 REQUIRED)

add_executable(MyApp main.cpp)

target_link_libraries(MyApp MitkCore)
\endcode

with the main.ccp being
\code
#include <iostream>
#include <mitkLogMacros.h>

int main()
{
  MITK_INFO << "Hello world!";
  return 0;
}
\endcode

\section BuildInstructions_Advanced_Customization Superbuild customization

You can inject pre-build third-party libraries into the MITK superbuild by
setting certain CMake variables before the first configure step. MITK will
then use these third-party libraries instead of downloading and building them
by itself. Note that you must take care of configuring those libraries with all options
MITK requires.

The variables listed below are provided for injecting third-party libraries.
Their occurrence in the CMake GUI or in ccmake may depend on specific
MITK_USE_* options set to ON. You may also use the variable names below without
the <tt>EXTERNAL_</tt> prefix, for example when providing their values on a
command line call to CMake.

 - <tt><b>EXTERNAL_BOOST_ROOT</b></tt> Set this variable to your custom Boost
   installation
 - <tt><b>EXTERNAL_CTK_DIR</b></tt> Set this variable to your CTK binary tree
   (the directory containing the CTKConfig.cmake file)
 - <tt><b>EXTERNAL_CableSwig_DIR</b></tt> Set this variable to your CableSwig
   binary tree for Python wrapping (the directory containing the
   CableSwigConfig.cmake file)
 - <tt><b>EXTERNAL_DCMTK_DIR</b></tt> Set this variable to your DCMTK binary
   tree (the directory containing the DCMTKConfig.cmake file)
 - <tt><b>EXTERNAL_GDCM_DIR</b></tt> Set this variable to your GDCM binary
   tree (the directory containing the GDCMConfig.cmake file)
 - <tt><b>EXTERNAL_ITK_DIR</b></tt> Set this variable to your ITK binary tree
   (the directory containing the ITKConfig.cmake file)
 - <tt><b>EXTERNAL_OpenCV_DIR</b></tt> Set this variable to your OpenCV binary
   tree (the directory containing the OpenCVConfig.cmake file)
 - <tt><b>EXTERNAL_VTK_DIR</b></tt> Set this variable to your VTK binary tree
   (the directory containing the VTKConfig.cmake file)

To set CMake options before the first configure step is invoked, supply them
on the command line, i.e.

\code
ccmake -DITK_DIR:PATH=/opt/ITK-release ../MITK
\endcode

*/
