HowTo install the OFFIS DICOM toolkit dcmtk352 in an IRIX environment

Once upon a time, this has heen a cumbersome and bold venture! But with version 3.5.2 it has become easy: no special quirks at all in configuring and compiling the software. All the stuff mentioned in former versions of this page is obsolete now, a relaxed rootconf - configure - make does the job.

In detail:

Where to find the software...
... should be no miracle to you, if you found this page.

• Point you favourite ftp-client to dicom.offis.de,
• download dcmtk352.tar.gz or dcmtk352.zip,
• and unpack it.
  Because I'm frequently dealing with different version of this software, I have different directories for these version. The prompt meyer@onyx2:dcmtk-352 refers to a shell in the root of the newly extracted directory.

The all mysterious rootconf:

• meyer@onyx2:dcmtk-352> cd config; ./rootconf; cd ..

• By default, configure grabs gcc, c++ and libtool as compiler and archiver. This can be overridden by setting CC, CXX and AR, most convienently achieved using env.
• If you have zLib, OpenSSL and libTIFF in place, just tell configure:
  

  meyer@onyx2:dcmtk-352> env CC=cc CXX=CC ./configure --with-zlib \
  		       --with-openssl --with-opensslinc=/usr/local/ssl \
  		       -with-libtiff --prefix /usr/local/dcmtk352
        

• Yes, you'll need GNUmake (gmake),
• redirection to logfile is always nice,
• and put it in the background, the compilation takes it's time... (csh-Syntax, bourne-shellists will know what to do!)

  meyer@onyx2:dcmtk-352> gmake -k >& Log.make &

• ...and a final gmake install.

If you ever did it before, you know you're lucky. Congratulations and thanks to Marco, Jörg and Thomas for making compilation of this great piece of cak^H^Hode all so easy!