Setup, compile and run MITK with BlueBerry and Qt4
This page has been updated to reflect the recent build-system changes (aka superbuild).
This page describes how to build MITK itself. If you want to start your own project based on MITK, please read "Setup A MITK Based Project" instead.
This tutorial is for Windows, but the steps are basically the same for Linux. 1. Prerequisites: You need git (http://git-scm.com/), CMake, a compiled version of Qt 4.x.
Git clone the current source from http://git.mitk.org/MITK.git, e.g. in D:\home\MITK\source
If you installed any previous version of Qt make sure to remove the path from your PATH-environment variable. Otherwise you might get errors during configuration
Start "cmake-gui" and enter your source (e.g. D:\home\MITK\source) and binary directory (e.g. D:\mitk-superbuild).
- You have to press "Configure" two times more and then "Generate". Now all project files have been generated into your binary directory
Close CMake and open "D:\mitk-superbuild\MITK-superbuild.sln" (replace the path accordingly). Your Visual Studio should appear and by pressing F7 you start the compilation
- After the superbuild compilation has finished, close the solution file and start the batch file "D:\mitk-superbuild\MITK-build\StartVS_debug.bat" (or _release.bat if you built MITK in Release mode) which opens the "D:\mitk-superbuild\MITK-build\MITK.sln" solution.
Set the "ExtApp" project as start-up project (right click > "Set as StartUp Project") and press "F5" to start the MITK ExtApp.
=> Just opening MITK.sln from your explorer by double-cliking won`t allow you start or debug MITK applications because the required environment variables would be missing. Use the supplied batch files or set your PATH variable accordingly.