在Mac Os安装并建立ITK

introduction

VTK library is use for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization
ITK library contains powerful image processing and registration tools

I have used ITK on Windows for a few months. Since my laptop is MacBook Pro and most of programming were done on it, I was looking for a tutorial of how to install ITK on Mac OS. I found two tutorials: one is for installing VTK on Mac and the other is installing ITK via MacPorts. The version of ITK on MacPorts is so... old. Thus, I consulted the tutorial of installing VTK on Mac and installing ITK on Windows to fulfill my task. After finishing this job, I felt it was not so difficult as I thought.

(1) Preparation -- Download necessary tool and files

• CMAKE: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
• ITK: http://www.itk.org/ITK/resources/software.html (the file ending with".tar.gz")

(2) Install CMAKE

• Simply extract the file from what download. 
• Double click on the .dmg file. 
• Before finishing, check the option: Install Commond-Line Link

(3) Install ITK with CMAKE

1. Extract the ITK package that you just dowloaded to a directory. Rename it as InsightToolKit (eg. /User/Jianxu/Document/ITK)
2. Create a new directory in the same folder, called ITKbin. ( /User/Jianxu/Document/ITK/ITKbin) . Now in the folder ITK, you the source folder (InsightToolKit), which you just extracted, and an empty installation folder(ITKbin), which you just created.
3. Open CMake. Choose default comiler as Unix MakeFiles
4. In the top two lines, set Source code as  /User/Jianxu/Document/ITK/InsightToolKit and set the binaries as  /User/Jianxu/Document/ITK/ITKbin
5. Click Configure
6. Choose (Advance). You can see bunch of red-marked lines in the window. Make the following changes:     
   Build_Examples: OFF  (I don't need those examples.)
   Build_Shared_Libs: OFF (I need static lib to share the program others who doesn't have ITK)
   64bit_IDT: ON (Important! If you don't set this flag, your program would easily run out of memory when processing large 3D image.)
7. Click Configure again
8. If no other red lines, click Generate
9. Open Terminal. (If you don't have Command Line Tool, download here.) Do the following step by step:
   cd  /User/Jianxu/Document/ITK/ITKbin
   make
   sudo make install (need to enter password to your computer)
10. All done!

(4) Build a ITK program on Mac

• Put your code and CMakeList (you can find tons of examples on Wiki ITK.) in the same folder. (eg.  /User/Jianxu/Document/ITK/program)
• Open CMake, set the source code directory and binaries directory as the same folder, where you placed your code and CMakeList. (eg.  /User/Jianxu/Document/ITK/program) 
• Click Configure
• You may need to change the following parameter:
  ITK_DIR:  /User/Jianxu/Document/ITK/ITKbin    (your installation directory)
• Click Configure again
• If no other red lines, click Generate.
• Open Terminal and change to the file folder, i.e. /User/Jianxu/Document/ITK/program. 
• Type in " make " and your executable file will be generated automatically.
• Type in " . / XXXXX   p1 p2 p3 " to run your program. (XXXXX is the executable file and p1 p2 p3 are the input parameters yo may need for the program.)