[MINC-users] Running MNI software on SGI Intel 64bits LinuxMachine (IA64)

Mon Mar 7 19:36:04 2005

Dear Morgan,

I am trying to build almost every tool from MNI (public or private). And I
found that there are numerous problems out there for compiling, installing,
and running MNI Software and needed libraries on GNU/Linux/x86/x86_64
combinations. I hope that people have more interest in Intel/GNU/Linux
boxes. :)

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F.Y.I. from my personal correspondence:

We had to patch:

N3 -> extracttag.c
. "-mintags", ARGV_LONG, (char *) NULL, (char *) &min_tags, . . "-maxtags",
ARGV_LONG, .

Also, the following should be patched
minc 1.3 -> image_conversion.c line 680~
/* Check for image dimension properties */
     if ((icv_property>=MI_ICV_DIM_START) && 
               (icv_property<MI_ICV_DIM_START+MI_MAX_IMGDIMS)) {
         idim = icv_property - MI_ICV_DIM_START;
         *value = icvp->derv_dim_start[idim];
      }
      else if ((icv_property>=MI_ICV_DIM_STEP) &&
               (icv_property<MI_ICV_DIM_STEP+MI_MAX_IMGDIMS)) {
         idim = icv_property - MI_ICV_DIM_STEP;
         *value = icvp->derv_dim_step[idim];
      }
      else if ((icv_property>=MI_ICV_DIM_SIZE) &&
         (icv_property<MI_ICV_DIM_SIZE+MI_MAX_IMGDIMS)) {
         idim = icv_property - MI_ICV_DIM_SIZE;
         *value = icvp->user_dim_size[idim];
      }

......

CGAL 2.4 package for mni_surfreg. However I needed additional patch again to
work around a problem. That seems to be compatibility problems between
IRIS(n32? n64?) and GCC/G++.

I had to link following object for building shared library to work around
'hidden symbols not found in libCGAL.so error'. This might not be safe.

static void init(){}
static void fini(){}
static void preinit(){}

typedef void (*fp)();
fp __init_array_start[]={init};
fp __init_array_end[]={init};
fp __fini_array_start[]={fini};
fp __fini_array_end[]={fini};
fp __preinit_array_start[]={preinit};
fp __preinit_array_end[]={preinit};
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And some of the software working on x86_32 machine does not work properly on
an IA64 machine.

Regards,
Phil.