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=Overview=

This page describes how to build 3D Slicer with OpenIGTLink interface module.
The OpenIGTLink module is in the 3D Slicer 3 trunk repository. Before build the Slicer, you need to enable OpenIGTLink option.

=Linux and Mac=
First, get the source code from the repository. For Linux and Mac:
  $ cd <working directory>
  $ svn co http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer3/trunk Slicer3

Then edit Slicer3/slicer_variables.tcl configuration file. Around line 150:
  set ::USE_OPENIGTLINK "OFF"
should be modified as:
  set ::USE_OPENIGTLINK "ON"

Save the configuration file, start building by running Slicer3/Scripts/getbuildtest.tcl
 $ cd Slicer3
 $ ./Scripts/getbuildtest.tcl

It will take a while. Once the building process is completed, you could find Slicer3 program in the binary directory. To launch the Slicer, do followings:
 $ cd ../Slicer3-build
 $ ./Slicer

=Windows=
Detailed instructions can be found in [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Slicer3:Build_Instructions Slicer 3 Build Instruction ].

Before you start, you need:
* [http://www.cygwin.com Cygwin] with tcltk, svn, cvs, unzip and curl packages.
* Microsoft C++ compiler. Microsoft Visual C++ 2009 Express can be used and it's free.

First, get the source code from the repository: http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer3/trunk. You could run svn command from Cygwin terminal as:
  $ cd <working directory>
  $ svn co http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer3/trunk Slicer3

Then edit the configuration file. Open Slicer3/slicer_variables.tcl and edit the following line (around line 150):
  set ::USE_OPENIGTLINK "OFF"
as:
  set ::USE_OPENIGTLINK "ON"

Save the configuration file, start building by running Slicer3/Scripts/getbuildtest.tcl
 $ cd Slicer3
 $ ./Scripts/getbuildtest.tcl

It will take a while. Once the building process is completed, you could find Slicer3.exe in Slicer3-build directory.