Introduction

The most recent stable release of DeVIDE is version 9.8. See ReleaseNotes98 for more information on this version.

There are two ways of getting DeVIDE: in easy-to-install and compact binary form (the DRE), or the slightly more complex build-it-yourself way.

If you're not sure what you need, go for the binaries. With these you can build networks and even program new modules in Python or in C++, making use of all the included libraries (VTK, ITK, numpy, matplotlib, stats, geometry).

If you're on a platform that there are no binaries for, or you would like a complete DeVIDE build tree (including builds of ITK, VTK and a bunch of other useful things), you're going to have to build your own using our superbly ugly but terribly useful automatic build system, johannes. It can take care of building all dependencies all by itself.

Binaries

Get your 9.8 binaries fresh from the oven! The current 9.8 binaries are version v9.8.3784 and are available for Windows x86 (32bit), Windows x64 (64bit), Linux x86 (32bit) and Linux x86_64 (64bit).

NB: While you're downloading, please read the DeVIDEQuickStart guide!

NB: If you're not able download the binaries due to bandwidth constraints, let me know (for example via the mailing list or by leaving a comment on the blog) so I can send you a CD-R with all four binaries.

Both the Linux x86 and x86_64 binaries were built on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS systems. Let me know if they don't work for you. If you're planning on any kind of serious processing, for example on DICOM datasets of a few hundred megabytes, you should really try to get your hands on some 64 bit hardware.

Building your own from source

You should only be here if you are planning to compile your own source code. For most other end-user purposes, the binaries above should be sufficient.

So, you've decided that you're brave enough for johannes. Check johannes out from SVN:

svn checkout http://devide.googlecode.com/svn/branches/v9-8/johannes -r 3785

This will get you the version that was used to build the 9.1 binaries above.

Read the included README.txt file to get started.

Bleeding edge

If you would prefer to live on the cutting edge, get the latest johannes from the trunk. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out how to do that. :)

Updates

For serious bug fixes, I will be releasing updates to 9.8. If this happens, it will be announced on the blog and on the mailing list. Update releases will be numbered 9.8.ijkl, where ijkl is a number higher than the current 3784.