ITK/Release 4/Modularization/Prototype/Tutorial

Overview

This tutorial demonstrates the prototype of modularized ITK with an toy example containing six modules and a testing application. The test application "itkNrrdImageIOTest" reads and writes images in Nrrd format. The five library modules that are required to build the test application are:

• itk-vnl (a subset of numeric libraries of VXL)
• kwsys (a supporting library for )
• itk-common (core classes, macro definitions, typedefs, and other software constructs central to ITK)
• itk-io-common (classes that support the reading and writing of data)
• nrrdio (third-party library)
• itk-io-nrrd (itk wrapper of nrrdio).

Requirements

• A computer with a network connection
• A build environment (gcc / VS)
• CMake 2.8.2 installed([1])
• Git 1.7.x.x installed ([2])

Git repositories of individual modules

• itk-vnl

  git://kwsource.kitwarein.com/itk/itk-vnl.git

• kwsys

 git://kwsource.kitwarein.com/itk/kwsys.git

• nrrdio

  git://kwsource.kitwarein.com/itk/nrrdio.git

• itk-common

 git://kwsource.kitwarein.com/itk/itk-common.git

• itk-io-common

 git://kwsource.kitwarein.com/itk/itk-io-common.git

• itk-io-nrrd

 git://kwsource.kitwarein.com/itk/itk-io-nrrd.git

• test-itk-nrrd

 git://kwsource.kitwarein.com/itk/test-itk-nrrd.git

Method A: SubDir Approach

To enable downloading and configure the whole modularized ITK package for usual ITK developers, the classic CMake approach is to use "add_subdirectory" to include each module in correct order according to their dependencies.

Download

Git repository:

• itk-devel

  git://kwsource.kitwarein.com/itk/itk-devel.git

• itk-depends

  git://kwsource.kitwarein.com/itk/itk-depends.git

Configure

• How to configure the modularized code
  • CMake commands...

Build

• How to build the modularized code

Test

• How to submit a build to the ITK Dashboard
• and where to find it.

http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=Insight#ITKv4_Modularization

Method B: Superbuild

Download

• How to download the modularized code

Configure

• How to configure the modularized code
  • CMake commands...

Build

• How to build the modularized code

Test

• How to submit a build to the ITK Dashboard
• and where to find it.

http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=Insight#ITKv4_Modularization

Reference

 https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSubmoduleTutorial