Editing Installing STIR with CMake (section)

=== Using the CMake GUI ===

If you have Windows or MacOSX, ''CMake'' comes as an application with a nice GUI. For
Unix/linux users, you get that by installing ''cmake-gui''.


Please note that if you launch CMake from your desktop environment, you will have to make sure that any configuration from the previous section is available to such applications (which usually isn't the case). It might be best to launch ''cmake-gui'' from the command line.

After launching it, you
first select the source directory (''STIR'', <b>not</b> ''STIR/src'') and then a build directory. It's recommended to build one level up from STIR. Call it anything you like,  e.g. STIR-bin. 

On Unix/Linux you will probably be using ''make'' to build things. When using ''make'', you want different build directories for every type of build (Debug or Release) you want to make. For systems using an IDE (e.g. Windows with Visual Studio or MacOS with XCode, Linux with eclipse), you can build different versions from one CMake build directory.