Required Libraries
These are the required libraries that need to be either compiled or present
on the system that is using the MXADataModel.
- CMake - Compile or otherwise
install on your system.
- HDF5 version 1.6.9 - This
is the latest stable production version. When the next version is released
the MXA code base will be updated. You can download version 1.6.8 from our
git server here.
Currently the MXA Data Model does NOT employ the inline compression
available in the HDF5 library. Because of this, you will NOT need to have
'szip' installed on your system. You only need the HDF5 library compiled
and installed. Some platforms prefer the static libraries, some prefer the
dynamic library.
- Tiff Library
- Needed for reading Tiff images. We have created a CMake build system for
libTiff. You can download a tar ball of the source directory here
- Expat XML Library -
The current version of expat that is utilized is 2.0.1. We have created a
CMake based build system for expat. You can download the source tree from
our cvs repository here.
- Boost 1.39.0 - This is the
earliest version that has been tested. There were some bug fixes for OS X
compilation in the 1.36.0 series so this the earliest release that is
being used at this time. You will need to build the following boost
libraries
- test
- thread
- program_options
- VTK - There are some optional
bindings for VTK in the MXA Source code. These are optional to build. If
you do build them VTK version 5 is required.
- Qt - This is only required if you are
compiling the GUI based applications.
OS and Compiler Combinations Tested
Operating System |
Compiler |
Notes |
OS X 10.5.x |
GCC 4.x (Xcode 3.1 Tooling) |
OS X 10.4.11 should be supported without any issues. Both PPC and i386 are also supported. |
Windows XP SP2 |
MSVC++ 2009 Express |
Currently using VS2009 Express to compile everything |
Windows 7 |
Visual Studio 2009 Standard |
Currently using VS2009 Standard to compile everything |
Windows XP SP2 |
MinGW 3.1.4 with MSys 1.10 |
GCC 3.4.5 from MinGW project seems to work. Compiling Boost and Qt will be the tricky
parts. I would suggest compiling all the 3rd party libraries as static libraries to make
things easier. |
Ubuntu 8.10 |
GCC 4.2 |
Should compile just fine. Large file support, greater than 2GB, may be an issue. |
Linux HPC IA64 |
GCC 4.x |
Not tested in a long time but should compile without issues. |