[Insight-users] Need some advise

[Nuno Barros]

Hi Luis,

I'm getting a bit confused about the configuration of all these things. Just
to confirm, what I have to do is:

1) Install ITK with cmake (I used VS10 to generate the binaries)
2) Install Qt (I installed "qt-win-opensource-4.7.1-vs2008" using windows
installer but I was wondering if I have to install Qt downloading the source
files and using cmake. If this is the way, what should I write in the
CMakeLists?)
3)Install VTK with cmake providing the location of some Qt files (I used
VS10)

After this I tried to execute the VTK helloworld but it didn't run because
it can't find the QtGuid4.dll.

For each project I may write the files in Visual Studio but I need to build
them with cmake, isn't that right?

In this whole story where comes the revision control, and what are the
advantages of using it?

Just another thing, I want to build x86 applications and as so I'm always
using the x86VS10 to compile all this things. Besides this I work in w7x64
environment. Do I have to take any precautions?

Wouldn't it be simpler to configure ITK and VTK to work with Qt creator? I
was trying this at first but I don't know why, I was having some trouble
using Msys and MinGW to generate the binaries from ITK.

Sorry for all this questions, but I'm a newbie in this things and I wasn't
yet able to find any document capable of answering this questions for me.

Thanks, Nuno





2011/2/21 Nuno Barros <nunopbarros at gmail.com>

> Hi Luis,
>
> I'll do as you say and maybe I'll try MITK or CTK later.
>
> Thanks
>
> 2011/2/21 Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>
>
> Hi Nuno,
>>
>> There are certainly multiple options here,
>>
>> So, let me suggest one of them only:
>>
>>
>> 1) Combine ITK, VTK and Qt
>>
>>
>> 2) Use them all at the C++ level
>>
>>
>> 3) Use CMake for configuring them together
>>    (don't generate project from QtCreator, nor VStudio
>>     CMake can do this cleaner for you, and in a format
>>     that you can put in revision control (CVS/SVN/Git) )
>>
>>
>> 4) If you need DICOM, ITK provides it via GDCM.
>>    If you need Query/Retrive, ITKv4 will have it by September.
>>    otherwise you should go with DCMTK
>>
>>
>> 5) Should you pick DCMTK, then you should look at CTK
>>
>>      http://www.commontk.org/index.php/Main_Page
>>
>>     This library already combines VTK, Qt and DCMTK
>>
>>      (I believe the MITK developers are also collaborating in CTK).
>>
>>
>> 6)  Stay away from Tcl if you can.    :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>     Luis
>>
>>
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Nuno Barros <nunopbarros at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I need some advise.
>> > I'm used to work with MATLAB in medical image processing but, in order
>> to
>> > produce software applications capable of being introduced in a clinical
>> > environment I want to move to something more professional. The solution
>> > should gather:
>> > -speed
>> > -good documentation (I need to be able to learn by myself and found
>> > solutions for the problems that may occur)
>> > -flexibility for development of image processing functions
>> > -DICOM reader
>> > -GUI development tools
>> > I think I should use ITK, VTK and Qt, but I don't know what's the best
>> > solution to mix these libraries. I heard of different options and I want
>> to
>> > know your opinion:
>> > - Should I build these libraries to write the program in Qt creator or
>> in
>> > VS? (I was trying to build ITK with cmake using msys to go for the first
>> > solution (Qt creator) but I did not succeed)
>> > - MITK is a good solution?
>> > - Should I add other libraries like gdcm or dcmtk for DICOM reading? If
>> yes,
>> > which one?
>> > - Should I use Tcl to simplify coding in VTK, or this will turn things
>> even
>> > more complicated?
>> >
>> > I'm really confused because I see a lot of solutions and I don't want to
>> > take an option now that may lead me to a dead end.
>> > I don't if it helps but I'm working with Win7 x64 and VS10.
>> > Thanks, Nuno
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