DICOM example running problem

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I met the problem when trying to run the DICOM example under the file examples/extended/medical/DICOM

I installed DCMTK with version 3.6.7 in the path /home/gn4/dcmtk-3.6.7-install
Then define the enviromental variable DCMTK_BASE_DIR to point to the directory where I have installed it. i.e, add this line to the GNUmakefile in DICOM/
DCMTK_BASE_DIR = /home/gn4/dcmtk-3.6.7-install

Then add to the enviromental variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH the path ${DCMTK_BASE_DIR}/lib (i.e. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${DCMTK_BASE_DIR}/lib )

by $echo LD_LIBARAY_PATH I can see the path in it.

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/home/gn4/geant4-v11.0.3-install/lib:/home/root/root-6.26.08/buildroot/home/root/root-6.26.08-install/lib:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/home/gn4/geant4-v11.0.3-install/lib:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/home/gn4/geant4-v11.0.3-install/lib:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/home/gn4/geant4-v11.0.3-install/lib:/home/gn4/dcmtk-3.6.7-install/lib:/home/gn4/dcmtk-3.6.7-install/lib

Then to set the enviromental variable DICOM_USE_DCMTK to 1.
In GNUmakefile, I uncommented the line
#DICOM_USE_DCMTK := true

  • Compile it with ‘make’/‘gmake’

  • A standard Geant4 example CMakeLists.txt is provided

  • Configure via cmake with
    cmake -DGeant4_DIR=/home/gn4/geant4-v11.0.3-install/lib/Geant4-11.0.3 -DDCMTK_DIR=/home/gn4/dcmtk-3.6.7-install /home/gn4/geant4-v11.0.3-install/share/Geant4-11.0.3/examples/extended/medical/DICOM

then make

But when I make I get this error info.

root@lab2:/home/gn4/geant4-v11.0.3-install/share/Geant4-11.0.3/examples/extended/medical/DICOM# make
Entering dicomReader …
make[1]: Nothing to be done for ‘obj’.
make: *** No rule to make target ‘/home/gn4/geant4.10.04.p03-install/include/Geant4/globals.hh’, needed by ‘/root/geant4_workdir/tmp/Linux-g++/DICOM/DicomRegularDetectorConstruction.o’. Stop.

Does anyone know how to solve it?

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By thy way when I run the cmake file it has no problem.

cmake -DGeant4_DIR=/home/gn4/geant4-v11.0.3-install/lib/Geant4-11.0.3 -DDCMTK_DIR=/home/gn4/dcmtk-3.6.7-install /home/gn4/geant4-v11.0.3-install/share/Geant4-11.0.3/examples/extended/medical/DICOM
– DICOM: Using DCMTK
– Trying to find DCMTK expecting DCMTKConfig.cmake
– Trying to find DCMTK expecting DCMTKConfig.cmake - ok
– Trying to find DCMTK expecting DCMTKConfig.cmake
– Trying to find DCMTK expecting DCMTKConfig.cmake - ok
– DICOM settings:

  • DICOM_USE_DCMTK: ON
  • DICOM_USE_HEAD: OFF
    – Configuring done
    – Generating done
    – Build files have been written to: /home/gn4/geant4-v11.0.3-install/share/Geant4-11.0.3/examples/extended/medical/DICOM
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As the GNUmakefile system relies heavily on the environment for configuration, something has gone wrong here, as it’s trying to pick up Geant4 from /home/gn4/geant4.10.04.p03-install/, i.e a very old version.

I’d suggest only trying to use the CMake system for building applications as it’s far less prone to issues like this.

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