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README.md
libvips : an image processing library
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.
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
.
See the Dependencies section below for a list of the things that libvips needs in order to be able to build.
We have detailed guides on the wiki for building on Windows and building 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
Static analysis with:
$ cppcheck --force --enable=style . &> cppcheck.log
Leak check:
$ export G_DEBUG=gc-friendly
$ export G_SLICE=always-malloc
$ valgrind --suppressions=/home/john/nip2.supp \
--leak-check=yes \
vips ... > vips-vg.log 2>&1
Dependencies
libvips has to have gettext, glib-2.x and libxml-2.0. The build system needs sh, pkg-config, swig, gtk-doc-tools, automake, gobject-introspection and gnu make.
Optional dependencies
If suitable versions are found, libvips will add support for the following
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 since it is faster.
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, Leica, MIRAX, and Trestle.
swig, python, python-dev
If available, we build the python binding too.
Disclaimer
No guarantees of performance accompany this software, nor is any responsibility assumed on the part of the authors. Please read the licence agreement.