Third Party Support Libraries¶
DCMTK has various optional components that are implemented based on third party support libraries. It is possible to compile DCMTK without these libraries, however, in that case the respective features will not be supported.
Acquiring the Support Libraries¶
Most Unix like systems use package managers these days and, since the libraries used by DCMTK are quite common, provide packages for most or all of the support libraries, i.e. you may install them using eg. pacman, yum or apt. Windows is, however, another story. Since building the Support Libraries on/for Windows is quite difficult, we provide binary packages for various Visual Studio versions and settings for each new release of DCMTK.
Building the Support Libraries on Windows¶
If you need to build the libraries yourself (e.g. when you can't wait for a new release of DCMTK to get a new version of one of the libraries), you should have a look at our CMake build scripts for that. This is a separate project you may acquire via git, see:
The documentation on how to use it is available here: