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=Three Approaches=
===Implement by yourself===
*Writing applications in non-C/C++ languages
*The protocol is defined in [[OpenIGTLink/Protocol | the protocol description page]].

===Use simple C code (igtlutil) ===
*The code provides C structures for the generic header, image header and transform header, and supporting functions to create a message packet.
*Suitable for applications written in C and C++
*You can just copy the files into your source directory. You never have library link issue.

===Use the Open IGT Link Library===
*The library supports
**Classes to create Open IGT Link message
**TCP/IP Socket
**Thread and Mutex useful to make server program
*The library instruction is available in [[OpenIGTLink/Library | the Open IGT Link Library page]].


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| style="width:25%; background:#7ECEA5"|Features 
| style="width:25%; background:#7ECEA5"|From scratch
| style="width:25%; background:#7ECEA5"|igtlutil
| style="width:25%; background:#7ECEA5"|Open IGT Link Library
|-
|style="width:25%; background:#8EDEB5"| Language
||Any
||C/C++
||C++
|-
|style="width:25%; background:#8EDEB5"| Platform
||Any
||ANSI C
||Windows, Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X
|-
|style="width:25%; background:#8EDEB5"| Generic Header
||-
||Yes
||Yes
|-
|style="width:25%; background:#8EDEB5"| Transform
||-
||Yes
||Yes
|-
|style="width:25%; background:#8EDEB5"| Image
||-
||Yes
||Yes
|-
|style="width:25%; background:#8EDEB5"| Endian Conversion
||-
||Yes
||Yes
|-
|style="width:25%; background:#8EDEB5"| CRC Calculation
||-
||Yes
||Yes
|-
|style="width:25%; background:#8EDEB5"| Socket
||-
||-
||Yes
|-
|style="width:25%; background:#8EDEB5"| Thread & Mutex
||-
||-
||Yes
|}