I'd be very grateful for any help provided on this matter.

It has been close to three weeks since I started trying to compile freesurfer from its sources (CSV stable5) on 32bit ubuntu ver. 10.04.

I followed to the letter the recipe outlined in: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/DevelopersGuide

To do so I found additional prerequisite sources in: ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/fs_supportlibs/src/

mni.srcbuild.June2015.tgz 12.0 MB 6/19/15, 8:51:00 PM mni.srcbuild.README.txt 6.5 kB 2/25/09, 12:00:00 AM

tcltktixblt-8.4.6.tgz 11.4 MB 7/26/10, 12:00:00 AM vtk-5.2.1.tar.gz 16.2 MB 2/26/10, 12:00:00 AM vxl-1.13.0.zip 34.0 MB 2/26/10, 12:00:00 AM

and then (when I'd have almost given up) the "Hacks" in: https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pipermail//freesurfer/2013-April/029159.htm...

In addition, overcame the complex VTK structure of includes ...

Finally, to find I am still missing ITK, which is barely mentioned elesewhere.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I assume it is all about the National Library of Medicine's Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK).

Then which version of ITK goes with the rest of freesurfer (as described above)?

http://www.itk.org/ITK/resources/legacy_releases.html