[Insight-users] Re: How to run .exe in unix or windows

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Huss

You are building ITK with SHARED libraries.

Therefore you must add the directory where
those libraries are to the PATH.

In practice you don't gain much with building
ITK with Shared libraries since most of the
code is templated. The only good reason for
using Shared libraries is when you are wrapping
ITK for languages like Tcl, Python or Java.



Your best options now are:


1) Rebuild ITK with

       BUILDS_SHARED_LIBS = OFF

    to do this, first delete all the .dll
    libraries in the ITK binary directory.
    Then rerun CMake, and disable the variable
    above, then build ITK.

     OR

2) Add to your path the directory where
    the DLL ITK libraries are.



We *strongly* suggest you to do (1) instead of (2).

Also, Please read the Getting Starting Tutorial,
and the first chapter of the SoftwareGuide.

You could have avoided running into these
annoying details if you have followed the
step-by-step instructions given in the tutorial
and the SoftwareGuide for building ITK.


Tutorial:

http://www.itk.org/HTML/Tutorials.htm
http://www.itk.org/CourseWare/Training/GettingStartedI-WebPage/img0.html

SoftwareGuide:

    http://www.itk.org/ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf



Regards,


    Luis


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Huss wrote:

> Hi Luis,
> 
> Thanks for your reply again.
> Actually I didnt frame my question correctly.. I did try to run the
> .exe file as you have asked me in your previous mail but I am getting
> the following error:
> 
> " This application has failed to start because libITKCommon.dll was
> not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem."
> 
> I had one more question. How can I test the "MultiResMIRegistration"
> package under "InsightApplications-1.6.0".
> 
> I really appreciate all your help.
> Thanks again.
> Huss
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:34:04 -0400, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hi Huss,
>>
>>All of the examples in
>>
>>            Insight/Examples
>>
>>are intended to be run from the command
>>line prompt.
>>
>>They will not do anything interesting if
>>you just double-click on them from the
>>Windows explorer.
>>
>>Your options are:
>>
>>A) in Windows
>>
>>   A.1) Open an MS-DOS command prompt window,
>>        Change directory to the place where
>>        the .exe is located; and type the
>>        executable name file directly.
>>
>>   A.2) Install Cygwin
>>        open a shell window
>>        change directory to the place where
>>        the executable is, and type the
>>        executable name directly.
>>
>>B) in UNIX
>>
>>    open a shell window,
>>    change directory to the place where
>>    the executable is, and type the
>>    executable name directly.
>>
>>This is a relatively basic operation. You may
>>want to get some background on how to use your
>>Windows and Unix systems, before you proceed
>>to use advanced libraries like ITK.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>  Luis
>>
>>-------------
>>
>>
>>Huss wrote:
>>
>>>Hello Luis,
>>>
>>>I have configured the HelloWorld program and created the the .exe file
>>>for it. I am not sure how to run this file in unix or windows to take
>>>a look at the output..
>>>
>>>Please let me know soon.
>>>
>>>Thank You
>>>Huss
>>>
>>
>>
> 
>