[vtkusers] Porting Osirix to Linux / Windows

[Roch Comeau]

Hi,

While I am not an Osirix Developer and I can't speak for them, a  
quick look at the resources used by Osirix tells me that you are in  
for a lot of work, and essentially have to write a new application  
because Osirix uses a lot of Apple specific technologies. These include:

-Altivec accelerated math libraries
-vImage library for image processing
-X-grid for multi-computer multi-processing
-Objective C (not Apple specific, but more popular here)
-Cocoa framework for GUI and probably internal data structures

So while it is open source and uses a lot of open source components,  
there are many key components that make it difficult to impossible to  
port without essentially re-writing the software (someone can correct  
me if I am wrong).

One of the arguments for using these technologies is that it allows  
one to make best use of that particular architecture for speed and  
user experience (and shorten development time) rather than take the  
lowest common denominator (among computing platforms) approach (but  
that's a whole other topic).

Your choices are to either rewrite almost from scratch or get a Mac  
computer to use Osirix and learn objective C (I recommend the latter).

About the zip files. You need decompression software that can read  
zip files (unzip). Does it not come standard on Windows and Linux  
machines?

Regards,

Roch Comeau
Rogue Research Inc.


On 25-Oct-05, at 12:00 AM, 云剑 wrote:

> Hi,
>      Is there any possibilities to port Osirix to Linux / Windows?  
> What steps should we do for this porting?
>      Also, I downloaded the OsiriX21.pkg.zip and OsiriX21X86.zip  
> file from SourceForge, how can I unzip this project? I find I can't  
> read the source code?
>
> Thank you and best regards,
> yunjs
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