Re: Linux libraries for areaDetector

[Kate Feng <feng1@bnl.gov>]

Mark Rivers wrote:
> Folks,
>
> With the areaDetector package I try to provide statically built Linux
> libraries for packages that would not be installed on a "normal" Linux
> system.  This allows the areaDetector standalone binaries to run without
> installing additional packages on most Linux systems.  It also allows
> building areaDetector on such systems without these optional packages
> installed.  In the past these static libraries included:
>
> tiff, jpeg, z
> NeXus mfhdf df hdf5 mxml
>   
I assume that those are used in areaDetectorR1-6.
On the RHEL4 PC, I had to update the libtiff.a library.
Afterwards, it works.
> I have just added a new file writing plugin based on ImageMagick.  It is
> very powerful, and supports dozens of file formats, including PDF, PNG,
> GIF, in addition to compressed TIFF files (which the existing TIFF file
> plugin does not), JPEG, and dozens of others.
>
> To support ImageMagick I have included in areaDetector the static
> versions of its libraries, as well as fftw3, which it uses.
>
> ImageMagick uses additional libraries, which I am assuming are available
> as system libraries, and am not planning to include static versions in
> areaDetector.  These libraries are:
>
> freetype gomp X11 Xext bz2 lcms png12 xml2 fontconfig
>   
On my Ubuntu, Karmic, I have all these package installed.
Is it possible to modularize ImageMagick so that
one does not have to depend on all the libraries
for all the formats, just to be more flexible if
an older version of Linux release is installed on a PC ?

Cheers,
Kate
> I just tested a statically built version of the simDetector on a Linux
> system (marCCD) to which I had added no additional libraries, and it
> worked.  This means that the above libraries were indeed available as
> system libraries.
>
> Can anyone comment on whether it is "safe" to count on the above
> libraries being available on "most" Linux systems?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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