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Qt6 and arm64 Slicer builds on the factory machines

Key Investigators

• Sam Horvath (Kitware, USA)
• Ebrahim Ebrahim (Kitware, USA)
• James Butler (Revvity, USA)
• Andras Lasso ( Queen's, CA)
• Steve Pieper (Isomics, USA)

Project Description

This week we will be finalizing the 5.12 release, and then working on moving the factory builds to Qt6 and arm64 (for macOS). These are the critical changes for the next major release Slicer 6.

Objectives and Progress

1. Release Slicer 5.12 ✔️
   1. Ensure macOS signing is working properly ✔️
2. Create qt build image: https://github.com/Slicer/SlicerBuildEnvironment/tree/main/Docker ✔️
   1. Initial image has been built successfully: https://hub.docker.com/r/slicer/buildenv-qt6-almalinux8-gcc14
3. Install Qt6 on Windows factory
4. Begin setting up arm64 factory machine

Illustrations

Background and References

• https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/9180
• https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/6388
• https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/6811

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