Build in Windows

These instructions give details how we build all necessary libraries and setup BioImageXD in Windows. Same instructions work for Windows XP, Vista and 7, and for both 32- and 64-bit systems. We use Visual Studio 2008 to build necessary libraries, but other tools should work as well. If you have any problems, contact info@bioimagexd.net. Whole process takes full day (about 8h), but gladly computer will do most of the job.

Prerequisites:

• Python 2.6 (2.7 might also work, but haven't been tested in Windows), http://www.python.org
• wxPython 2.8.x (2.9.x might also work, but haven't been tested in Windows), http://www.wxpython.org/
• CMake 2.6 or newer, http://www.cmake.org
• SWIG 1.3.38 or newer (2.x.x series haven't been tested), http://www.swig.org/
• Subversion client

Building VTK

1. Download VTK 5.6.1 (or newer, might work, but no guarantees), http://www.vtk.org/files/release/5.6/vtk-5.6.1.zip
2. Extract package
3. Open CMake GUI
4. Browse path of VTK sources to "Where is the source code"
5. Create new directory for binaries and set it to "Where to build the binaries"
6. Change Simple view to Advanced view
7. Set following settings:

   BUILD_SHARED_LIBS: ON

   BUILD_TESTING: OFF

   CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: Release

   VTK_USE_PARALLEL: ON

   VTK_WRAP_PYTHON: ON

8. Click 'Configure' and set

   VTK_USE_TK: OFF

9. Click 'Configure' to configure and 'Generate' to generate and exit
10. Go to directory you selected for binaries and open file 'VTK.sln' to Visual Studio.
11. Select Build->Build Solution, get a cup of coffee and wait about 30-60 minutes for VTK to get build

Building ITK

1. Download ITK 3.20.1 (ITK 4.x.x will not work, we'll updated this guide when we move to ITK 4), http://sourceforge.net/projects/itk/files/itk/3.20/InsightToolkit-3.20.1.zip/download
2. Extract package
3. Open CMake GUI
4. Browse path of ITK sources to "Where is the source code"
5. Create new directory for binaries and set it to "Where to build the binaries"
6. Change Simple view to Advanced view
7. Set following settings:

   BUILD_EXAMPLES: OFF

   BUILD_SHARED_LIBS: ON

   BUILD_TESTING: OFF

   CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: Release

   ITK_USE_OPTIMIZED_REGISTRATION: ON

   ITK_USE_REVIEW: ON

   ITK_USE_REVIEW_STATISTICS: ON

8. Click 'Configure' to configure (don't care about attentions) and 'Generate' to generate and exit
9. Go to directory you selected for binaries and open file 'ITK.sln' to Visual Studio.
10. Select Build->Build Solution, get another cup of coffee and wait about 10 minutes for ITK to get build

Building CableSwig (needed for wrapITK)

1. Download CableSwig-ITK 3.20.0, http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/itk/CableSwig-ITK-3.20.0.zip
2. Extract package
3. Open CMake GUI
4. Browse path of CableSwig sources to "Where is the source code"
5. Create new directory for binaries and set it to "Where to build the binaries"
6. Change Simple view to Advanced view
7. Set following settings:

   CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: Release

8. Click 'Configure' to configure and 'Generate' to generate and exit
9. Go to directory you selected for binaries and open file 'CableSwig.sln' to Visual Studio.
10. Select Build->Build Solution, and wait about 5 minutes for CableSwig to get build

Building wrapITK (the long-lasting part)

1. Create directory for wrapITK source
2. Go to directory and fetch sources using command 'svn checkout http://wrapitk.googlecode.com/svn/branches/maint .'
3. Open CMake GUI
4. Browse path of wrapITK sources to "Where is the source code"
5. Create new directory for binaries and set it to "Where to build the binaries"
6. Change Simple view to Advanced view
7. Set following settings:

   BUILD_TESTING: OFF

   CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: Release

   ITK_DIR: Set to root directory of your ITK sources

   WRAP_double: ON

   WRAP_unsigned_char: ON

   WRAP_unsigned_long: ON

8. Click 'Configure' to configure (don't care about possible errors) and set

   CableSwig_DIR: Set to root directory of your CableSwig sources

   WRAP_ITK_PYTHON: ON

   INSTALL_WRAP_ITK_COMPATIBILITY: OFF

9. Click 'Configure' to configure, nothing to set so click 'Configure' to configure again, and 'Generate' to generate and exit
10. Go to directory you selected for binaries and open file 'wrapITK.sln' to Visual Studio.
11. Select Build->Build Solution. Since you have drinked too many cups of coffee you might not feel like having a lunch right now. Go for nice 30-60 minutes walk outside. After that you can have lunch or dinner. Then wait a while for building of wrapITK to finish. It will take about 3-5 hours.
12. Open CMake GUI
13. Browse path ${wrapITK_source}\ExternalProjects\ItkVtkGlue to "Where is the source code" and "Where to build the binaries"
14. Change Simple view to Advanced view
15. Set following settings:

    BUILD_WRAPPERS: ON

    CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: Release

    ITK_DIR: Set to root directory of ITK sources

16. Click 'Configure' to configure (don't care about possible errors) and set

    VTK_DIR: Set to root directory of VTK sources

17. Click 'Configure' to configure and set

    WrapITK_DIR: Set to root directory of wrapITK sources

18. Click 'Configure' to configure, and 'Generate' to generate and exit
19. Go to directory ${wrapITK_source}\ExternalProjects\ItkVtkGlue and open file 'ItkVtkGlue.sln' to Visual Studio
20. Select Build->Build Solution, and wait for ItkVtkGlue to get build

Get BioImageXD sources and build vtkBXD and itkBXD

1. Create directory for BioImageXD sources and fetch sources using command 'svn co https://bioimagexd.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bioimagexd/bioimagexd/trunk .'
2. Open CMake GUI
3. Browse path ${BXD_source}\vtkBXD to "Where is the source code" and "Where to build the binaries"
4. Change Simple view to Advanced view
5. Set following settings:

   CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: Release

   VTK_DIR: Set to root directory of VTK sources

6. Click 'Configure' to configure, 'Configure' to configure, and 'Generate' to generate and exit
7. Go to directory ${BXD_source}\vtkBXD and open file 'VTKBXD.sln' to Visual Studio
8. Select Build->Build Solution, and wait for VTKBXD to get build
9. Open CMake GUI
10. Browse path ${BXD_SOURCE}\itkBXD to "Where is the source code" and "Where to build the binaries"
11. Change Simple view to Advanced view
12. Set following settings:

    CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: Release

    ITK_DIR: Set to root directory of ITK sources

    WrapITK_DIR: Set to root directory of wrapITK sources

13. Click 'Configure' to configure, 'Configure' to configure and 'Generate' to generate and exit
14. Go to directory ${BXD_SOURCE}\itkBXD and open file 'ITKBXD.sln' to Visual Studio
15. Select Build->Build Solution, and wait for ITKBXD to get build

Final setup

Now you can go to root of BioImageXD sources and launch BioImageXD by 'python BioImageXD.py'. Depending where you built libraries, you might need to set PYTHONPATH and/or PATH environment variables. Add following to your environment variables (Windows 7: Control Panel->System->Advanced system settings->Environment variables): PYTHONPATH=${VTK_BINARY_PATH}\Wrapping\Python:${VTK_BINARY_PATH}\bin\Release:${VTKBXD_BINARY_PATH}\Wrapping\Python:${VTKBXD_BINARY_PATH}\bin\Release:${WRAPITK_BINARY_PATH}\lib:${WRAPITK_BINARY_PATH}\Languages\Python\Release:${ITKVTKGLUE_BINARY_PATH}\lib:${ITKBXD_BINARY_PATH}\lib
PATH=${WRAPITK_BINARY_PATH}\lib\Release:${ITK_BINARY_PATH}\lib\Release:${ITKVTKGLUE_BINARY_PATH}\lib\Release:${ITKBXD_BINARY_PATH}\lib\Release Where ${...} should be replaced with path to that location.