DICOM.pm Installation Instructions
The standard distribution comes as a gzipped tar file, which will
extract into a directory called dicomperl:
gunzip dicomperl.tar.gz
tar xvf dicomperl.tar
The contents of the dicomperl directory are:
| DICOM.pm |
Definition of main class. |
| DICOM_GUI.pm |
Graphical user interface, derived from DICOM class |
| DICOM_VRfields.pm |
Definitions of Value Representations |
| DICOM_element.pm |
Definition of each element making up the header. |
| DICOM_fields.pm |
Text definition of the DICOM dictionary |
| DICOM_private.pm |
User-defined extensions of the DICOM dictionary |
| README.txt |
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| dicom.pl |
Sample application demonstrating use of the DICOM class. |
| install |
Simple Unix shell script to copy distribution files. |
| modifyheaders |
Example program that edits the headers of multiple files. |
Running the install script is optional. It does three
things:
- Copies the four .pm files to a directory of your choice.
- Edits the first line of each file to set the path to the Perl
interpreter.
- Edits the 'use lib' line of the demo .pl program to
the directory that the module files were copied to.
To run the installation script, make it executable and run it:
chmod +x ./install
./install
The script will ask you where you want to place the module (.pm) files
that comprise the library. These files will be edited and copied to
that directory. Note that the program (.pl) files are not copied.
Windows Users
I haven't yet developed an installation script that will install the
module files on a Windows platform. You can manually perform the
three steps listed above by copying and editing the files. The
command interpreter line (first line in .pl and .pm files) for Windows
should just say:
#! perl
The use lib line should look something like:
use lib 'C:\src\perl';
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