Hello, I am a total novice when it comes to using these types of programs. I have been in Windows IT support for two decades, so compiling things is not something I've ever needed to do; plus, very little Terminal use. I've been tasked with determining if MRI Reface can work for our use-cases, so I’m looking for help/direction on how to get these applications to function. I’m not a programmer or developer, so I’m really at a loss.

I'm attempting to first do a POC with the native 3.5 Mac version. Then, later, potentially having this run on a Linux EC2 using the native Linux 3.5 release.

We are using a Mac Studio M1 Max on Tahoe 26.5. I’ve installed MATLAB 2022a. Easy. Next steps: the Niftyreg and ANTS components.

#1 - Are these the best links to use for these components for this Mac?

Nifty reg: https://github.com/KCL-BMEIS/niftyreg

ANTS: https://github.com/antsx/ants

#2 - Should different links be used if trying to set up the native Linux install? If so, which?

#3 – Am I right that I should be using CMake to compile both Nifty reg and ANTS?

#4 - I see the CMake text files in the Github data. Is this the best resource for which cmds to run? Are people using these successfully to compile and run the applications?

#5 - Is Ubuntu still the recommended Linux OS? Is there a release version that should be used or is known-good?

#6 – Once the Niftyreg and ANTS components are believed to be successfully ‘installed’, how do you run MRI Reface?

Thanks for any help you can provide or resources you can point me to.