RTK/Developers

Developer's guide

This section is aimed to assist in the development of RTK.

Source Code

Download repository

The RTK source code can be retrieved from RTK's GIT repository using the following command:

 git clone git@github.com:SimonRit/RTK.git <sourcePath>

Compiling

In order to compile RTK you need the following third party software:

1. CMake >= 2.4
2. ITK >= 3.20
3. Gengetopt >= 2.20

• Optional:

1. CUDA drivers

CMake

CMake is a family of tools designed to build, test and package software.

You can download pre-compiled binaries and the source code [[1]] or via git:

  git clone git://cmake.org/cmake.git

Installation instructions are available, [here].

CMake is used to build ITK and RTK, among other platforms.

ITK

ITK is an open-source, cross-platform system that provides developers with an extensive suite of software tools for image analysis.

You can download the source code, [here] or via git:

   git clone git://itk.org/ITK.git <sourcePath>
   git checkout v3.20.0

Create a binary directory, i.e. itk-bin, get into it and run CMake:

   mkdir itk-bin
   cd itk-bin
   ccmake ../itk
   make

Note: it is preferable to use the following options for registration:

   Set ITK_USE_REVIEW to ON
   Set ITK_USE_OPTIMIZED_REGISTRATION_METHODS to ON

Gengetopt

Gengetopt is a tool to write command line option parsing code for C programs.

On Windows, you can download the binary, [here].

On Linux, you can download the source code, [here] or via git:

   git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gengetopt.git

Compilation:

   mkdir gengetopt-bin
   cd gengetopt-bin
   ../gengetopt/configure
   make
   sudo make install

Last step is to compile RTK and we also use CMake. Compilation process as follows:

   mkdir rtk-bin
   cd rtk-bin
   ccmake ../rtk
   make