ITK/Release 4/Wrapping

Wrapping

High-Level Goals

SIMPLIFY ITK by allowing easy access of the toolkit from other languages, especially scripting languages, hiding some difficulties (templates, compilation ...) along the way.

Metrics and goals

• Avoid unnecessary dependencies (see Modular ITK)
• FASTER
  • faster compilation
  • limited compilation ( see modular itk v4 )
  • faster re-compile (touching a given .h should not trigger a full re-compilation)
• Wrap 80%+ of the toolkit
• Have ITK behaves in the different languages as close to the native code as possible
  • ITK Image to/from target language array conversion
  • Target language inheritance (SWIG directors)
  • Automatic type selection in Python
• Binary distribution
• Automatic Inline documentation

Languages

• Java
• Python
• Lua ?
• Tcl ?
• see simpleITK

Comparative Examples

Required Tools and Technology

Installation is detailled here

tools

• WrapITK.
• Swig
• GccXML

WrapITK Configuration and Build Process Internals

• Build Process for Dummies

Parallel Build Status

• Parallel Build Status

Discussions and TConfs

• 19-07-2010 - NoAgenda - Minutes
• 13-08-2010 - Agenda - Minutes

Pending Tasks

• here