[Insight-users] gcc-xml

[Neil Killeen]

Luis

thanks for this very clear and infomative reply.  I suggest
you put it in the itk documentation somewhere.  I found
all these different interfaces a bit hard to fathom,
as you could tell.    Why not put it in the FAQ ?

regards
Neil

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Luis Ibanez wrote:

>
> Hi Neil,
>
>
> Let's start by saying that ITK does not depend nor
> require any of { VTK, Tcl, FLTK, Qt, OpenGL or GLUT }
>
> The only place where these libraries appear is on
> the demo applications in the Insight/Applications
> directory.
>
> ITK does not provide any functionalities for GUI or
> Visualization. When you build an actual application,
> these functionalities have to be obtained from other
> libraries or from your own code.
>
> The Tcl wrapping that is provided by Cable makes
> possible to use ITK classes from Tcl. Cable uses
> gcc-xml internally in order to parse C++ code and
> obtain declaration in XML.  Building gcc-xml is
> surprisingly easy. However if you want to avoid
> this step, you can simply download binary versions
> from:
>
>     http://www.gccxml.org/HTML/Download.html
>
>
> Note that the Tcl wrapping generated by Cable is
> not the same as the traditional Tcl wrapping in
> VTK. That is, by wrapping with Cable you will not
> get VTK and ITK in the same Tcl environment.
> You will have to wrap VTK using Cable instead of
> the traditional Tcl wrappers.
>
> Some of the example-applications have followed
> another path, which is to insert isolated ITK
> filters inside VTK custom filters, then wrap
> those new VTK filter into Tcl using the traditional
> VTK Tcl-wrapping.  This is done in the following
> applications:
>
>
>     - MRIRegistration
>     - SegmentationEditor
>     - vtkITK
>
>
> This secondary approach for wrapping is a
> common source of confusion.
>
> -----
>
> The applications that are using FLTK do not require
> Tcl at all. FLTK is used there as a C++ library for
> GUI. You don't need to wrap ITK with Cable in order
> to use these example. The only thing required is
> FLTK (the recommended version can be downloaded from
>
> http://www.itk.org/HTML/DownloadRelatedSoftware.htm
>
> Demo applications using FLTK are:
>
> - DistanceMapFilter
> - DicomImageViewer
> - GaussianFilter
> - GradientRecursiveGaussianFilter
> - Curves2DExtractor
> - Morphogenesis
> - MutualInformationEuler2DRegistration
> - ImageRegistration
> - ImageRegistration2D
> - RawImageReaderViewer
> - RegionGrowingSegmentation
> - ThresholdSegmentationLevelSet
> - FastMarchingLevelSet
> - ShapeDetectionLevelSet
> - MetaImageViewer
> - MetaImageColorViewer
> - SurfaceGenerator
>
>
> Among the applications using FLTK for GUI,
> the following applications also require
> VTK for visualizing segmented images in 3D:
>
> - RegionGrowingSegmentation
> - ThresholdSegmentationLevelSet
> - FastMarchingLevelSet
> - ShapeDetectionLevelSet
>
>
>
> There is also an example of how to use Qt
> for GUI along with ITK:
>
> - QtITK
>
>
>
>
> Please let us know if you have further questions.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>     Luis
>
>
> =================================================
>
> Neil Killeen wrote:
> > There is always one more thing...
> >
> > I have been trying to build the itk system with the Tcl wrappers as well
> > as access to vltk.  I think I am doing this because it's useful
> > generically, but more specifically so that I can operate some
> > of the examples which require a GUI, fltk, vltk for display and I think
> > tcl.
> >
> > SO I have installed Cable, fltk, and vtk ok. However, Cable is failing to
> > run because it  requires yet another package, gcc-xml, sigh.
> >
> > Specifically, it is failing in build/Wrapping/Tcl/Numerics  on the command
> >
> > #!/bin/csh
> > /DATA/ELARA_3/nkilleen/Cable/build/cable \
> > /DATA/ELARA_3/nkilleen/itk/InsightToolkit-1.0.0/Wrapping/Tcl/Numerics/wrap_ITKNumerics.cxx
> > \
> > -tcl wrap_ITKNumerics_tcl.cxx --gccxml-compiler g++-3.1.1 \
> > ### snip lots of -I includes
> >
> >
> > Having read the gcc-xml page I am now to scared to proceed, since anything
> > that requires building of compilers, such as gcc, is a nightmare.
> >
> > Now, before I pass the buck, and ask my system person to do this for me,
> > I'd like to ask you lot, how important this is to have.
> >
> > If I don't have gcc-xml does that mean I can have no
> > Tcl wrappers and no fltk GUIS (are they written in Tcl ?)
> > for itk ?
> >
> > Also, if i proceed, is gcc-xml known to be buildable with
> > gcc 3.1.1 ?
> >
> >
> > thanks
> > Neil
> >
> >
> >
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