[Insight-users] need help installing ITK under linux

Tue Sep 12 22:15:30 EDT 2006

Hi Bis,

Create a directory in your home dir:
mkdir ~/ITKBuild
cd ~/ITKBuild
ccmake ~/InsightToolkit-2.8.1
Set Examples ON
Type c, then g.
Type make.

Best,
Sylvain

Biswajit Bose wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble installing ITK on Debian GNU/Linux. I'm unable to 
> compile the Hello World example using ccmake.
>
> I downloaded the package from the ITK website, and am following the 
> instructions in the ITK Software Guide-2.4.0.
>
> a) I unzipped/untarred the InsightToolkit tar-gz file to get the 
> directory '~/InsightToolkit-2.8.1'.
> b) I went into the directory and created a new directory called 
> 'binaries'.
> c) I went into 'binaries' and typed 'ccmake ../Code'
> d) I hit 'c' and then 'g' in ccmake. The 'binaries' directory filled 
> up with a number of files, and is currently taking up a total of 855K 
> on disk. No error messages were printed, and ccmake exited to the prompt.
> e) I went into '~/InsightToolkit-2.8.1/Examples/Installation' and 
> typed 'ccmake .'
> f) I set ITK_DIR to '~/InsightToolkit-2.8.1/binaries'. Then I hit 'c'.
>
> I got an error saying:
>
> <begin error>
> CMake Error: Error in cmake code at
> /usr/share/CMake/Modules/FindITK.cmake:80:
> INCLUDE Could not find include file:
> ~/InsightToolkit-2.8.1/binaries/ITKConfig.cmake
>
> CMake Error: Error in cmake code at
>  ~/InsightToolkit-2.8.1/Examples/Installation/CMakeLists.txt:7:
>  INCLUDE called with wrong number of arguments.  Include only takes 
> one file.
> <end error>
>
> I checked the '~/InsightToolkit-2.8.1/binaries' directory and 
> confirmed that there is no file called ITKConfig.cmake there.
>
> The CMakeLists.txt file in 
> '~/InsightToolkit-2.8.1/Examples/Installation/' is as follows:
>
> <begin cmakelists.txt>
>
> # This project is designed to be built outside the Insight source tree.
> PROJECT(HelloWorld)
>
> # Find ITK.
> FIND_PACKAGE(ITK)
> IF(ITK_FOUND)
>   INCLUDE(${ITK_USE_FILE})
> ELSE(ITK_FOUND)
>   MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR
>           "Cannot build without ITK.  Please set ITK_DIR.")
> ENDIF(ITK_FOUND)
>
> ADD_EXECUTABLE(HelloWorld HelloWorld.cxx )
>
> TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(HelloWorld ITKCommon)
>
> <end cmakelists.txt>
>
> The CMakeCache.txt file from 
> '~/InsightToolkit-2.8.1/Examples/Installation/' can be found at the 
> bottom of this email. Note that in my email above, '~' refers to 
> '/afs/csail.mit.edu/u/c/cielbleu/soft/itk' below.
>
> Please help.
>
> Thanks,
> Bis
>
>
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