MITK on MacOS

General

MacOS support for MITK is rather new. This page summarizes how to build a MacOS version and some known issues.

Building the required toolkits

Use Qt with Cocoa support

If you are running MacOS 10.5 or higher, make sure to use the Cocoa version of Qt. The Carbon version produces some unwanted effects e.g. in rendering.

You can select the right version here: http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/mac-os-cpp

Building VTK

(These notes apply to VTK 5.4.2)

Some notes about MacOS, Cocoa and VTK from Kitware can be found here: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/Cocoa_VTK

Download VTK and configure it using CMake. Use these options:

BUILD_SHARED_LIBS = ON
VTK_USE_PARALLEL = ON
VTK_USE_GUISUPPORT = ON  (advanced option)

(configure)

VTK_USE_QVTK = ON

(configure)

DESIRED_QT_VERSION = 4

(configure)
(configure)
(generate)

Build...

make

Then optionally install (recommended).

make install

Building ITK

ITK builds without problems. Download it from www.itk.org, configure using CMake, then build and install. The only important CMake option is:

BUILD_SHARED_LIBS = ON

Building MITK

Nothing different from Linux or Windows, a link to some general page should come here.

Known issues

With this VTK/Qt combination renderwindows don't draw, but at least:

text edit boxes show a blinking cursor
render window "buttons" are drawn correctly

All known explicit MacOS issues: Bugzilla list

MacOSX