[Insight-users] gdcm + ITK installation problems

[Luis Ibanez]

HI Angelo,

Please do the following:

1) Download "gdcm" using CVS.

2) Configure gdcm using CMake.
    Mathieu Malaterre created the CMakeLists.txt files
    that allow to configure gdcm for any platform using
    CMake. In that way you don't have to deal with the
    .dsw, .dsp files distributed by gdcm. Instead, those
    files are generated by CMake and you can then proceed
    to open them with Visual Studio. You don't need the
    Python, nor VTK extensions in gdcm, please don't enable
    them when you configure gdcm.

3) Build "gdcm" by loading the .dsw into Visual Studio
    (the .dsw that CMake generated in your gdcm Binary
     directory).

4) Once you are done building gdcm, run CMake over ITK
    and enable the "USE_GDCM" variable.

5) Click on "Configure", provide the GDCM directories
    and click on "OK"

6) Reload the ITK.dsw in Visual Studio and rebuild
    ITK (don't need to do a clean build, just to trigger
    the "build" option. this will actually compile only
    a couple of files.)


Please let us know if you find further problems,



   Thanks,


      Luis


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angelo.salamini at libero.it wrote:
> Title: gdcm + ITK installation problems
> 
> 
> Hi to all,
> I am Angelo. I try to install gdcm for the use with ITK, but i encountered some
> problem with the installation. I try different procedure but in all the cases I
> 
> encountered installation errors.
> 
> On my computer i have the following configuration:
> VTK 4.5.0 installed 
> ITK 1.8.0 installed
> Visual Studio 6.0 installed.  
> S.O. Windows 2000 Professional edition installed.
> 
> In gdcm help I read the following procedure:
> 1. Retrieve the sources through the tarball
> 2. Launch VC++ by opening the gdcm.dsw workspace.
> 3. Proceed with building the required projects.
> 
> So I try the following procedure:
> 
> 1. gdcm installation by the executable file: "gdcm-0.4.exe" (Full installation)
> [Note: if i try to open the workspace "gdcm.dsw" Visual Studio require the
> following projects:
> _vtkGdcm.dsp
> gdcmTestDicomDir.dsp
> gdcmTestDicomDir2.dsp 
> gdcmpyembedded.dsp
> vtkGdcmTest.dsp
> but they don't exist in gdcm directory!!!]
> 2. run CMake to configure ITK with option "USE_GDCM"
> 
> CMake give me the follow error message:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This project requires some variables to be set and cmake can not find them.
> Please set the following variables:
> GDCM_CONFIGURE_INCLUDE_DIR
> 
> GDCM_INCLUDE_DIR (ADVANCED)
> GDCM_SHARED_LIBRARY (ADVANCED)
> VTKGDM_INCLUDE_DIR (ADVANCED)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> So i try to install gdcm using the zip file "gdcm-0.4.zip":
> 
> 1. I unzip  "gdcm-0.4.zip"  in my work directory: "C:\Kitware\GDCM-GnuDicom\gdcm\"
> 2. so I open the workspace "gdcm.dsw" with Visual Studio, in this case is not
> present the precedent problem with the missing project files.
> 3. In menu "Build" i press "rebuild all" .
> 
> In that case the compiler give me the following error message:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Performing Custom Build Step on \bin\vtkwrappython
> "\Kitware\GDCM-GnuDicom\gdcm\vtk\vtkGdcmReader.h"
> \Examples\Build\vtkMy\Wrapping\hints 1  .\..\vtkGdcmReaderPython.cxx
> Impossibile trovare il percorso specificato. (Impossible to find the specify path)
> Error executing c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe.
> 
> vtkgdcmPython.dll - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> 
> The following environment variables were not found
> $(VTKPATH)
> $(CREATIS)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I notice that in the path:
> "C:\Kitware\VTK-VisualizationToolkit\vtk42\Examples\Build\vtkMy\Wrapping" there
> is a file (without extension) named "hints" but the directory "hint1" doesn't 
> exist. 
> 
> Also, the file named "vtkGdcmReaderPython.cxx too" doesn't exist on my computer.
> 
> I notice too, that if i install gdcm from the executable file "gdcm-0.4.exe"
> (Full installation) the file named "vtkGdcmReaderPython.cxx too" exist in the
> following directory: "C:\Kitware\GDCM-GnuDicom\gdcm\vtk" that is different to
> the one indicated by the C++ compiler. 
> 
> Please, somebody can tell me what's wrong?
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> Ing. Angelo Salamini
> 
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