ITK installation for MSVC

ITK: Insight Tool Kit

The Insight Toolkit (ITK) is an open-source software toolkit for performing registration and segmentation.

ITK is implemented in C++. It is cross-platform, using a build environment known as CMake to manage the compilation process in a platform-independent way. In addition, an automated wrapping process (Cable) generates interfaces between C++ and interpreted programming languages such as Tcl, Java, and Python. This enables developers to create software using a variety of programming languages. ITK’s C++ implementation style is referred to as generic programming, which is to say that it uses templates so that the same code can be applied generically to any class or type that happens to support the operations used. Such C++ templating means that the code is highly efficient, and that many software problems are discovered at compile-time, rather than at run-time during program execution.

Installing ITK

ITK can be downloaded without cost from the following web site:

http://www.itk.org/HTML/Download.php

ITK has been developed and tested across different combinations of operating systems, compilers, and hardware platforms including MS-Windows, Linux on Intel-compatible hardware, Solaris, IRIX, Mac OSX, and Cygwin. It is known to work with the following compilers:

• Visual Studio 6, .NET 2002, .NET 2003

• GCC 2.95.x, 2.96, 3.x

• SGI MIPSpro 7.3x

• Borland 5.5

The challenge of supporting ITK across platforms has been solved through the use of CMake,

a cross-platform, open-source build system.

ITK requires at least CMake version 2.0. CMake can be downloaded at no cost from

http://www.cmake.org

Install cmake.

Now open CMake and for ITK configuration and build follow steps:

1.       Make an ITK folder where ITK will be installed and build

2.       Make two subdirectories inside ITK folder named src and bin

3.       Extract all files of downloaded ITK zip file into src

4.       Open Cmake gui

5.       Enter path of src into  Where is the source code

6.       Enter path of bin into Where to build binaries

7.       Now click on Configure

8.    Select compiler for example if you are building for 64 bit choose 64 bit compiler.
9.    Select configuration options according to your need and configure again till red selection disappeared.

10.  Then click on Generate

11.     Now close Cmake and go in bin of ITK find ITK.sln file and click on it, it will open Visual Studio

12.     In solution explorer  select ALL_BUILD and build it [build will take around 90 minutes]

Now ITK library build.

Testing Built by HelloWorld Example

Go to \ITK\SRC\Examples\Installation folder and copy both files CMakeLists.txt and HelloWorld.cpp

Make a test folder with src and bin subfolders

Paste both files into src

Open Cmake and give path of src in source code and of bin in binary and configure then generate

Open bin of test folder and click on HelloWorld.sln it will open Visual Studio

Now build if error then ITK install is not ok.

After build open bin folder of test and check debug folder if there is an exe of HelloWorld exist if it is then ITK installed and build is ok.