Downloading and building the source code

1. Download dtiquery-1.1.tar.gz (186K archive)
   

2. Uncompress the files.
   
   The directory structure will be as follows:
   

   dtiquery-1.1/               
      DTIQuery/
      CINCH/     (coming soon!)
      precompute/
      util/
      jama/
      tnt/
      nifti/
      lib/
   

3. Install and build  wxWidgets 2.8 or later.

   On Windows:
   wxpath/configure --with-msw --disable-shared --enable-sockets --with-opengl --disable-precomp-headers --prefix wxlibspath

   On a Mac:
   wxpath/configure --with-mac --with-opengl --disable-shared --prefix wxlibspath

   On Linux systems,
   wxpath/configure --with-gtk --with-opengl --disable-shared --prefix wxlibspath

    

   Note: DTI-Query has not been tested with other versions of wxWidgets, but may work.
   
   

4. Install and build VTK 5.x. DTI-Query and CINCH will not build with earlier (pre-5.0) versions of VTK.
   
   
5. Install and build RAPID 2.01, a collision detection library available for non-commercial use from the University of North Carolina. (You will need to write them to obtain permission.) For simplicity, you may want to install the library in the dtiquery-1.1/RAPID201 directory.
   
   
6. Install the zlib compression library (necessary for data I/O with the nifti format). Note: many systems already have zlib libraries and headers installed, in which case this step is not necessary.
   
   
7. Edit dtiquery-1.1/Makefile.definitions to specify the paths of libraries and header files on your system.
   
   
8. Type 'make' from the top-level (dtiquery-1.1/) directory.