Connectome Workbench requires QT4 to compile. Recommended is the latest 4.8.x release. The following configure options were used on linux for our builds: -system-zlib -webkit -qt-libmng -qt-libpng -qt-libtiff -qt-libjpeg -nomake demos -nomake examples -no-qt3support -no-dbus -opensource -exceptions -stl -no-multimedia -no-phonon -no-audio-backend -openssl Optionally, it can use OSMesa, which allows the -show-scene command to work. Use it by setting OSMESA_DIR as an environment variable, such that $OSMESA_DIR/include/GL/osmesa.h exists, before running cmake. It is compiled using cmake, on linux do: mkdir build cd build cmake ../src #OR cmake-gui ../src make [-j cores] For other OSes, see http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/runningcmake.html You may want to set CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to Release or Debug before building, as the default build behavior may be non-optimized and without debug symbols. This produces 3 executables, 2 of which are useful to the end user (Desktop/wb_view, CommandLine/wb_command), and one for running internal tests (Tests/test_driver). To run the (few) tests available: ctest #OR make test To install wb_view and wb_command with the prefix configured in CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX: make install It should be noted that wb_import, provided in the HCP binary releases of Connectome Workbench, is actually part of caret5 (http://brainvis.wustl.edu/wiki/index.php/Caret:Download). Connectome Workbench itself is copyright 2014-2015 Washington University School of Medicine, licensed under GPLv2 or later, see LICENSE file Some included code/files are from third party sources, with the following licenses: Quazip/*: QuaZIP 0.6, http://quazip.sourceforge.net/ Copyright (C) 2005-2012 Sergey A. Tachenov Copyright (C) 1998-2010 Gilles Vollant Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Mathias Svensson Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Even Rouault Copyright (c) 1990-2000 Info-ZIP licensed under LGPLv2 and zlib, see Quazip/COPYING, Quazip/quazip.h, Quazip/zip.h and Quazip/unzip.c Qwt/*: Copyright (C) 1997 Josef Wilgen Copyright (C) 2002 Uwe Rathmann Qwt 6.0.1, http://qwt.sourceforge.net/ licensed under Qwt license v1.0 (LGPLv2.1, with exceptions), see src/Qwt/COPYING some unneeded files removed FtglFont/*: FTGL library Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Henry Maddocks <ftgl@opengl.geek.nz> Copyright (C) 2008 Daniel Remenak <dtremenak@users.sourceforge.net> Copyright (C) 2008 Éric Beets <ericbeets@free.fr> Copyright (C) 2008 Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org> Copyright (C) 2008 Sean Morrison <learner@brlcad.org> licensed under Expat, see FtglFont/COPYING Common/Base64.*, Common/DataCompressZLib.*, Common/MathFunctions.*, Nifti/Matrix4x4.cxx: use code from VTK, http://www.kitware.com/opensource/vtk.html or http://www.vtk.org/ Copyright (c) Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen originally licensed under BSD 3-clause, see http://www.kitware.com/Copyright.htm or http://www.vtk.org/VTK/project/license.html GuiQt/WuQDialog.cxx, Brain/FtglFontTextRenderer.cxx: copied some code from from QT4, https://qt-project.org/ Copyright (C) 2013 Digia Plc and/or its subsidiary(-ies). originally licensed LGPLv2.1 (or GPLv3, or a commercial license) modified to change some UI behaviors otherwise hardcoded into QT classes Files/SignedDistanceHelper.cxx, Algorithms/AlgorithmVolumeToSurfaceMapping.cxx: make use of PNPOLY, http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~wrf/Research/Short_Notes/pnpoly.html Copyright (c) 1970-2003, Wm. Randolph Franklin originally licensed with 3-clause BSD/MIT license, see files in question rewritten for different argument types, modified Resources/FtglFonts/Vera*.ttf Copyright (c) 2003 Bitstream, Inc.