ActiViz .NET is a tool for generating C# wrappers around VTK, an advanced, open-source software system for visualization. Please see our services page for more information or contact us to speak with a Kitware representative.

Pre-requisites for building gccxml, mummy and ActiViz .NET:

• cvs (command line tool required at mummy configure time because it retrieves a snapshot of CableSwig for the source code to the cable libraries)
• git
• doxygen (required to build mummy documentation files)
• python (required at ActiViz .NET build time to convert VTK tcl tests to C#)
• mono (to build on Mac or Linux)
• C# compiler
• Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 (gccxml does not yet work with Visual Studio 2010)
• A signing key to produce "strong name signed" .NET Framework binaries.

If you don't have your own strong name signing key, you can disable strong name validation on the machine that you want to build and test it on. However, to install your unsigned build on another machine, they will also have to disable strong name validation. It's a good idea to sign your .NET binaries if you're going to be re-distributing them.

ActiViz .NET Open Source Edition build instructions:

• Have a source and build tree of VTK available (5.6.1 or current 'master')
• Have corresponding VTKData available (needed for final test step)
• Download, configure and build gccxml according to http://gccxml.org/HTML/Download.html
• Use git to retrieve mummy source code:
  git clone git://public.kitware.com/mummy.git
• Configure and build mummy
• Use git to retrieve ActiViz .NET source:
  git clone git://public.kitware.com/activizdotnet.git
• Configure and build ActiViz .NET
• Ctest to run the ActiViz .NET test suite