problems with example

[tj]

I try to get the example to write a DICOM file
from the online manual to work. I use the first lines
of the example:

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#define HAVE_CONFIG_H

#include <dcmtk/dcmdata/dcfilefo.h>
#include <dcmtk/dcmdata/dcdeftag.h>
#include <dcmtk/dcmdata/dcuid.h>

int main() {

  DcmFileFormat fileformat;
  DcmDataset *dataset = fileformat.getDataset();

  OFCondition status=dataset->putAndInsertString(DCM_SOPClassUID, UID_SecondaryCaptureImageStorage);
  if(status.bad()) cerr << "ERROR: " << status.text() << endl;


  return 0;
}

When I compile this on MacOS X 10.4 with dcmtk-3.5.4
using the line

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g++ dcmtest.cpp  -ldcmdata -lofstd -lz -o dcmtest

and execute it, I get the output

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ERROR: Illegal Call, perhaps wrong parameters

What is going wrong here and what does the error message mean?

[Marco Eichelberg]

I would guess that dicom.dic is probably not installed where it belongs, i.e. by default in /usr/local/dicom/lib.

[tj]

OK, thanks!
I used

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--prefix=/Users/tj/MR-Software

to specify the installation directory when compiling dcmtk. When I set

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DCMDICTPATH=/Users/tj/MR-Software/lib/dicom.dic

the error vanishes. However, I was wondering why this doesn't work automatically. I digged into the code of dcmtk and found in config/include/dcmtk/config/cfunix.h

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#define DCM_DICT_DEFAULT_PATH "/Users/tj/MR-Software/share/dcmtk/dicom.dic"

This path contains my custom prefix, but it is not the correct path of the dictionary installed. Is this intentional?

Thanks a lot, Thies

[Michael Onken]

Hi Thies,

this is a "known" bug when installing DCMTK using a custom prefix. We've fixed it already in the CVS.

Regards,
Michael