[Insight-users] WrapITK and windows

Tue May 5 13:11:55 EDT 2009

Hi Gaetan,

FARSIGHT is a joint project involving Kitware, RPI, the University of Wisconsin, and the Wadsworth center.
You can get a quick feel for the project by visiting our 10-day old wiki page www.farsight-toolkit.org.
We are still working on it.

In a nutshell, we are interested in building a toolkit for biologists who need to make measurements
from images of cells and tissue gathered from microscopes. 

I am very interested in your wrapITK project, and feel that it can be extremely helpful to the FARSIGHT
project. The main challenge that remains to be overcome is to make it as simple as possible for non
computer scientists to invoke ITK routines from Python. Ideally, I would like it require just one
line of Python code, kind of like MATLAB. At the same time, we need to devise ways to make the documentation
accessible to end users - currently, it is aimed at computer scientists.

Best Wishes,

Badri Roysam
Professor, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering
Associate Director, NSF Center for Subsurface Sensing & Imaging Systems (CenSSIS ERC)
Co-Director, Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street, Troy, New York 12180-3590, USA.
Office(JEC 7010): 518-276-8067, Assistant: 518-276-8525, Lab(JEC 6308): 518-276-8207, Fax: 518-276-8715
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----- Original Message -----
From: Gaëtan Lehmann [mailto:gaetan.lehmann at jouy.inra.fr]
To: Luis Ibanez [mailto:luis.ibanez at kitware.com]
Cc: insight users [mailto:insight-users at itk.org], Zack Galbreath [mailto:zack.galbreath at kitware.com], farsight-developers at lists.kitware.com, Rick Giuly [mailto:rgiuly at gmail.com]
Subject: Re: [Insight-users] WrapITK and windows

> 
> Le 4 mai 09 à 17:14, Luis Ibanez a écrit :
> 
> >
> > Hi Gaetan,
> >
> >
> > A Tutorial on how to build ITK+WrapITK for Python on Windows
> > (and Linux) has been posted at:
> >
> >
> > http://farsight-toolkit.org/wiki/FARSIGHT_Tutorials/Building_Software
> >
> >
> > and it is linked from
> >
> >   http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Tutorials
> >
> >
> > Also, a Windows binary installer containing
> >
> >    * ITK + WrapITK for Python
> >
> > is now available at:
> >
> >   http://public.kitware.com/pub/itk/InsightApplicationsBin/
> >
> > more precisely
> >
> >
> http://public.kitware.com/pub/itk/InsightApplicationsBin/InsightToolkitWithPythonWrapping-3.13.0-win32.exe
> >
> >
> > The Installer tutorial:
> >
> >
> http://farsight-toolkit.org/wiki/FARSIGHT_Tutorials/Just_Installing_Software
> >
> > describes how to configure the installation.
> 
> 
> Nice :-)
> 
> I didn't heard about farsight before. I see a reference of it in the  
> last TCon.
> Is it a new project leaded by kitware?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gaëtan
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >   Regards,
> >
> >
> >       Luis
> >
> >
> >
> > -----------------------
> > Gaëtan Lehmann wrote:
> >> Le 17 avr. 09 à 20:39, Luis Ibanez a écrit :
> >>>
> >>> Hi Gaetan,
> >>>
> >>> My apologies for the misleading statement.
> >>>
> >>> It is not really that the installation produces an error,
> >>> but the fact that once it is build, the user must setup
> >>> a couple of environment variables. So, it took me  a couple
> >>> of tries to find the right way to setup my environment.
> >> Yes, you're right, that not really easy.
> >> I'm not sure it can be made easier though - at least it should be  
> >> well  documented.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> This exercise was done with the current version of WrapITK
> >>> inside ITK.  I have not tried yet the external version that
> >>> you have in Google Code.
> >> Would it be possible (and desirable) to have WrapITK tests in  
> >> itk's  dashboard, as it's done for the new statistics framework?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hope that helps to clarify,
> >> Sure
> >> Thanks,
> >> Gaëtan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>    Thanks
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>       Luis
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ---------------------
> >>> Gaëtan Lehmann wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi Luis,
> >>>> Thanks for testing WrapITK. I never seen an error during   
> >>>> installation  on windows with the stable version - I'll look at  
> >>>> that.
> >>>> However, I don't think your are talking about the stable  
> >>>> version   included in ITK, and not about the new version of  
> >>>> WrapITK which is   developed outside ITK.
> >>>> http://code.google.com/p/wrapitk/
> >>>> I think I had a similar error message than Rick the last time I   
> >>>> tried  to build this version.
> >>>> Rick, I had no chance to look deeper in the error you have. I'm   
> >>>> quite  sure I won't have much time before next week.
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Gaëtan
> >>>> Le 16 avr. 09 à 18:31, Luis Ibanez a écrit :
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi Gaetan,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I managed to build WrapITK with Visual Studio 7.1
> >>>>> several weeks ago. (for Python wrapping).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The compilation process proceeded without problem.
> >>>>> It was the installation (setting up paths) what
> >>>>> end up being tricky.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I believe Zack has enabled a Nightly build with
> >>>>> WrapITK for Windows. Let me double check on that...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Luis
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ----------------------
> >>>>> Gaëtan Lehmann wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Le 15 avr. 09 à 14:45, Rick Giuly a écrit :
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hello All,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Does WrapITK currently compile on Windows? If so what type  
> >>>>>>> of    compiler would work with it?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Or, if I need the cutting edge versions of WrapITK, should I   
> >>>>>>> just   switch over to using Linux?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>> My last try to build it on windows was not successful - that's   
> >>>>>> why  the  new wrapitk is still not released.
> >>>>>> WrapITK builds without any problem on mac os with xcode, which   
> >>>>>> use  the  same kind of path that microsoft compilers, so there   
> >>>>>> shouldn't  be much  to fix.
> >>>>>> I would appreciate the help of someone used to using  
> >>>>>> microsoft    compilers to help to debug the few remaining  
> >>>>>> problem.
> >>>>>> Would you be ok to take this task?
> >>>>>> Once the problems identified, I would be happy to work on a fix!
> >>>>>> The other option is to switch to another environment - it is    
> >>>>>> tested  successfully on linux, mac and opensolaris.
> >>>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>> Gaëtan
> >>>>>>
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