libvips ======= libvips is an image processing library. It's good for large images and for colour. There's a GUI as well, see the VIPS website: http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk There are packages for most unix-like operating systems, and binaries for Windows and OS X. Building libvips from source ============================ In the libvips directory, you should just be able to do: $ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install By default this will install files to /usr/local. If you have problems, read on. Building libvips on win32 ------------------------- http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=Build_on_windows Building libvips on OS X ------------------------ http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=Build_on_OS_X Building libvips from GIT ------------------------- Checkout the latest sources with: git clone git://github.com/jcupitt/libvips.git Then for a debug build: $ ./bootstrap.sh $ CFLAGS="-g -Wall" CXXFLAGS="-g -Wall" ./configure --prefix=/home/john/vips --enable-gtk-doc $ make $ make install Dependencies ============ libvips has to have gettext, glib-2.x and libxml-2.0. The build system needs pkg-config and gnu make. Optional dependencies --------------------- If suitable versions are found, libvips will add support for these libraries automatically. See "./configure --help" for a set of flags to control library detection. Packages are generally found with pkg-config, so make sure that is working. libtiff and libjpeg do not usually use pkg-config so libvips looks for them in the default path and in $prefix. If you have installed your own versions of these libraries in a different location, libvips will not see them. Use switches to libvips configure like: ./configure --prefix=/Users/john/vips \ --with-tiff-includes=/opt/local/include \ --with-tiff-libraries=/opt/local/lib \ --with-jpeg-includes=/opt/local/include \ --with-jpeg-libraries=/opt/local/lib or perhaps: CFLAGS="-g -Wall -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib" \ CXXFLAGS="-g -Wall -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib" \ ./configure --without-python --prefix=/Users/john/vips to get libvips to see your builds. libjpeg The IJG JPEG library. libexif if available, libvips adds support for EXIF metadata in JPEG files libtiff The TIFF library. It needs to be built with support for JPEG and ZIP compression. 3.4b037 and later are known to be OK. libz If your TIFF library includes ZIP compression, you'll need this too. videodev.h If libvips finds linux/videodev.h, you get support for Linux video grabbing. fftw3 If libvips finds this library, it uses it for fourier transforms. It can also use fftw2, but 3 is faster and more accurate. lcms2 lcms If present, im_icc_import(), _export() and _transform() are available for transforming images with ICC profiles. If lcms2 is available, it is used in preference to lcms. large files libvips uses the standard autoconf tests to work out how to support large files (>2GB) on your system. Any reasonably recent *nix should be OK. libpng if present, libvips can load and save png files. libMagick, or optionally GraphicsMagick if available, libvips adds support for loading all libMagick supported image file types (about 80 different formats). Use --with-magickpackage to build against graphicsmagick instead. pangoft2 if available, libvips adds support for text rendering. You need the package pangoft2 in "pkg-config --list-all" orc-0.4 if available, vips will accelerate some operations with this run-time compiler matio if available, vips can load images from Matlab save files cfitsio if available, vips can load FITS images OpenEXR if available, libvips will directly read (but not write, sadly) OpenEXR images OpenSlide if available, libvips can load OpenSlide-supported virtual slide files: Aperio, Hamamatsu VMS and VMU, MIRAX, and Trestle swig python python-dev if available, we build the python binding too Disclaimer ---------- Disclaimer: No guarantees of performance accompany this software, nor is any responsibility assumed on the part of the authors. Please read the licence agreement.