Software Development based on DCMTK

The DCMTK software can be compiled under Windows and a wide range of Unix operating systems including Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS X and NetBSD. All necessary configuration scripts and project makefiles are supplied.

DCMTK - Source Code Repository

You have read access to the complete source code repository of the DCMTK. Alternatively, the whole repository is mirrored to GitHub.

The official source code repository is actually a mirror of a private internal one. We employ our nightly builds to ensure the official repository only gets updated if DCMTK compiles on all tested platforms and the automated tests complete without errors (exceptions are possible, e.g. when bugs in external libraries result in the tests failing).

DCMTK 3.7.0 - Source Code and Documentation (2025-12-15)

DCMTK can be downloaded as a gzip compressed tar archive or as a ZIP archive. The contents of the two archives are identical.

	DCMTK 3.7.0 Source Code and Documentation	(9,296 KiB)
	DCMTK 3.7.0 Source Code and Documentation	(12,792 KiB)

The developer documentation can also be viewed online or downloaded separately.

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DCMTK 3.7.0 Documentation in HTML Format

(28,192 KiB)

DCMTK makes use of the following external libraries for zlib compression (Deflated Transfer Syntax), character set conversion, TIFF and PNG export, as well as XML document processing.

	libpng 1.6.51 Source Code and Documentation	(1,532 KiB)
	libxml2 2.15.1 Source Code and Documentation	(1,960 KiB)
	libtiff 4.7.1 Source Code and Documentation	(3,908 KiB)
	openssl 3.6.0 Source Code and Documentation	(53,688 KiB)
	zlib 1.3.1 Source Code and Documentation	(1,480 KiB)
	openjpeg 2.5.4 Source Code and Documentation (for DCMJP2K only)	(2,108 KiB)

DCMTK 3.7.0 - Support Libraries for Windows

In this section we provide the external libraries that are used by DCMTK (libiconv, libicu, libpng, libxml2, libtiff, openssl, and zlib) for the current DCMTK release 3.7.0 in pre-compiled format for Windows. The archives contain include files as well as debug and release versions of the corresponding libraries.

All support libraries included are available either compiled with "Multithreaded" runtime options (/MT and /MTd) or with "Multithreaded DLL" runtime options (/MD and /MDd). Please specify the include paths in CMake accordingly.

	Pre-compiled libraries for Visual Studio 2017 (MSVC 15.9), 32 bit, with "MD" option	(9,896 KiB)
	Pre-compiled libraries for Visual Studio 2017 (MSVC 15.9), 32 bit, with "MT" option	(9,876 KiB)
	Pre-compiled libraries for Visual Studio 2017 (MSVC 15.9), 64 bit, with "MD" option	(11,668 KiB)
	Pre-compiled libraries for Visual Studio 2017 (MSVC 15.9), 64 bit, with "MT" option	(11,656 KiB)
	Pre-compiled libraries for Visual Studio 2019 (MSVC 16.9), 32 bit, with "MD" option	(10,048 KiB)
	Pre-compiled libraries for Visual Studio 2019 (MSVC 16.9), 32 bit, with "MT" option	(10,028 KiB)
	Pre-compiled libraries for Visual Studio 2019 (MSVC 16.9), 64 bit, with "MD" option	(11,824 KiB)
	Pre-compiled libraries for Visual Studio 2019 (MSVC 16.9), 64 bit, with "MT" option	(11,812 KiB)
	Pre-compiled libraries for Visual Studio 2022 (MSVC 17.8), 32 bit, with "MD" option	(10,740 KiB)
	Pre-compiled libraries for Visual Studio 2022 (MSVC 17.8), 32 bit, with "MT" option	(10,724 KiB)
	Pre-compiled libraries for Visual Studio 2022 (MSVC 17.8), 64 bit, with "MD" option	(12,536 KiB)
	Pre-compiled libraries for Visual Studio 2022 (MSVC 17.8), 64 bit, with "MT" option	(12,524 KiB)

Download of older versions of the DCMTK libraries

Older versions of the DCMTK libraries can be downloaded here.