How do I run dcm4che tools from command line after compilation?

Question

I want to use the dcm2json tool, part of the dcm4che3 toolkit, but I cannot figure out how to compile and execute the command line tool. Having run

$ git clone https://github.com/dcm4che/dcm4che.git
$ cd dcm4che
$ mvn install

in the dcm4che directory root as outlined in the installation manual, all I get from compilation is a jar dcm4che/dcm4che-tool/dcm4che-tool-dcm2json/target/dcm4che-tool-dcm2json-3.3.5-SNAPSHOT.jar and a class file dcm4che/dcm4che-tool/dcm4che-tool-dcm2json/target/classes/org/dcm4che3/tool/dcm2json/Dcm2Json.class. There is no tool to execute. I can execute the standalone tools downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dcm4che/files/dcm4che3/3.3.3/ but sadly dcm2json isn't included in this (most recent sourceforge) release.

Does anyone know from where I can download a dcm2json executable or how to compile it? Any help would be really, really appreciated.

(Yes I did Google. A lot.)

Answer 1

dcm4che project has a sub-project called dcm4che-assembly that after running mvn install on the parent dcm4che project, produces a zip that assembles all runnable artifacts, including dcm2json.

If you are curious about how you can get the sh/bat script to run it, then dcm4che-assembly is where you have to look.

In fact, this zip assembly is the same as you download in the binary package.

Hope it helps!