SimVascular Dependencies.

External Open Source Packages Used by SimVascular

A complete build of the latest version of SimVascular requires over ten external open source libraries. Note that many of the open source packages include additional external open source packages and may require platform dependent system libraries. This is generally transparent to the developer with the exception that exact version numbers of packages may be required for compatibility. SimVascular has mandatory requirements, standard major requirements, and standard additional libraries as listed below.

Mandatory Requirements

  • VTK
  • tck/Tk
  • Standard major requirements:

  • ITK
  • MITK
  • OpenCASCADE
  • Qt
  • MMG
  • Python
  • Standard additional requirements:

  • FreeType
  • GDCM
  • hdf5
  • tinyxml2
  • Optional requirements include:

  • Tensorflow
  • svSolver requires VTK and at least one MPI implementation:

  • VTK
  • openmpi
  • mpich
  • msmpi (Windows only)
  • For current version numbers of the external open source packages, click here.

    Sanjay Kharche: Researcher ID; Orcid; Research Gate; PubMed.



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