• EMAN2
• COMPILE_EMAN2_WINDOWS

Compiling EMAN2 on Windows

1. Why don't I recommend Visual Studio 2003 as compiler for EMAN2 on WinXP?

Compile EMAN2 on Windows with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 may have these problems:
 * "fatal error C1204: Compiler limit: internal structure overflow". There is a solutions in the [http://www.boost.org/libs/python/docs/v2/faq.html#c1024 Boost Python FAQ] .
  * For libpyEMData2.cpp, comment out these functions: done_data() update() render_amp8() set_array_offsets() set_array_offsets() get_array_oddsets() and last three "__call__" functions.
  * For libpyUtils2.cpp, split this file to libpyUtils2.cpp and otherUtil.cpp.
NOTE - Removing the functions above will break EMAN2 in several important ways.  So It's better use Visual Studio 2005 to compile EMAN2.

2. Use cmake to generate Visual Studio 2005 solution:

• Download cmake windows installer cmake-2.6.0-win32-x86.exe from http://www.cmake.org/HTML/index.html.

• run cmake, fill the EMAN2 source directory to "Where is the source code", and specify a directory to "Where to build the binaries".
• click configure button, then OK. You will get error dialog. Then follow the next item to solve all dependency libraries.

3. The major trouble of compiling EMAN2 on Visual Studio 2005 come from the dependent library:

• Note: I suppose all packages are installed on C: drive. You can adjust it according to your actual path.

• Python

  Download python.2.5.2.msi from http://www.python.org, run it to install.

  set PYTHON_INLCUDE_PATH to C:/Python25/include

  set PYTHON_LIBRARY to C:/Python25/libs/python25.lib

• Numpy

  Download numpy-1.1.0-win32-superpack-python2.5.exe from http://numpy.scipy.org, run it to install.

  set NUMPY_INCLUDE_PATH to C:/Python25/Lib/site-packages/numpy/core/include

• Boost.python

  Download boost_1_35_0.zip and boost-jam-3.1.16-1-ntx86.zip from http://www.boost.org/users/download/.

  unzip boost-jam-3.1.16-1-ntx86.zip, you will get a executable file bjam.exe, put this file in your PATH(make sure you can execute it in a console window).

  unzip boost_1_35_0.zip.

  open a Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt, cd C:\boost_1_35_0\libs\python\build\

  bjam -sTOOLS=msvc "-sBUILD=release <runtime-link>dynamic <optimization>speed"

  set the BOOST_INCLUDE_PATH to C:/boost_1_35_0/include

  set the BOOST_LIBRARY to C:/boost_1_35_0/bin.v2/libs/python/build/msvc-8.0/release/threading-multi/boost_python-vc80-mt-1_35.lib

• HDF5

  Download 5-181-win-vs2005.zip from ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/current/bin/windows/.

  unzip 5-181-win-vs2005.zip, get a folder 5-181-win-vs2005.

  set the HDF5_INCLUDE_PATH to C:/5-181-win-vs2005/include.

  set the HDF5_LIBRARY to C:/5-181-win-vs2005/dll/hdf5dll.lib.

• FFTW3

  Download precompiled fftw3.1.2 windows dlls fftw-3.1.2-dll.zip from http://www.fftw.org/install/windows.html.

  unzip fftw-3.1.2-dll.zip.

  open a Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt, cd c:\fftw-3.1.2-dll.

  follow the instruction from http://www.fftw.org/install/windows.html, run these commands:

  lib /machine:i386 /def:libfftw3-3.def
  lib /machine:i386 /def:libfftw3f-3.def
  lib /machine:i386 /def:libfftw3l-3.def 

  Download fftw-3.1.2 source code fftw-3.1.2.tar.gz from http://www.fftw.org/download.html.

  unzip and untar fftw-3.1.2.tar.gz in a temporary directory, copy the include directory to C:\fftw-3.1.2

  set FFTW3_INCLUDE_PATH to C:/fftw-3.1.2/include.

  set FFTW3_LIBRARY to C:/fftw-3.1.2/libfftw3f-3.lib

• GSL

  Download gsl-1.11-windows-binaries.zip from http://david.geldreich.free.fr/dev.html

  unzip gsl-1.11-windows-binaries.zip to C:\gsl.

  set GSL_INCLUDE_PATH to C:/gsl/include.

  set GSL_CBLAS_INCLUDE_PATH to C:/gsl/include.

  set GSL_LIBRARY to C:/gsl/lib/gsl.lib.

  set GSL_CBLAS_LIBRARY to C:/gsl/lib/cblas.lib.

• libtiff

  Download tiff-3.8.2-1-lib.zip from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/tiff.htm, click the zip link close to "Developer files".

  unzip tiff-3.8.2-1-lib.zip. In C drive, create directory include and lib.

  copy header files in C:\tiff-3.8.2-1-lib\include to C:\include, copy C:\tiff-3.8.2-1-lib\libtiff.lib to C:\lib.

  set TIFF_INCLUDE_PATH to C:/include.

  set TIFF_LIBRARY to C:/lib/libtiff.lib.

• libjpeg

  Download jpeg-6b-4-lib.zip from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/jpeg.htm, click the zip link close to "Developer files".

  unzip jpeg-6b-4-lib.zip to to C:\jpeg-6b-4-lib.

  copy header files in C:\jpeg-6b-4-lib/include to C:\include, copy C:/jpeg-6b-4-lib/lib/jpeg.lib to C:\lib.

  set JPEG_INCLUDE_PATH to C:/include.

  set JPEG_LIBRARY to C:/lib/jpeg.lib.

• libpng

  Download libpng-1.2.24.lib.zip from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libpng.htm, click the zip link close to "Developer files".

  unzip libpng-1.2.24.lib.zip to C:\libpng-1.2.24.lib.

  copy header files in C:/libpng-1.2.24.lib/include to C:\include, copy C:/libpng-1.2.24.lib/lib/libpng.lib to C:\lib.

  set PNG_INCLUDE_PATH to C:/include.

  set PNG_LIBRARY to C:/lib/libpng.lib.

• zlib

  Download zlib123-vs2005.zip from ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/lib-external/zlib/1.2/bin/windows/.

  unzip zlib123-vs2005.zip to C:\zlib123-vs2005.

  copy header files in C:\zlib123-vs2005\include to C:\include, copy zlib1.lib and zlib1.dll from C:\zlib123-vs2005\dll to C:\lib.

  set ZLIB_LIBRARY to C:/lib/zlib1.lib.

  if you get compilation errors complain about <unistd.h> can not be found, change line 287 of zconf.h to "#if 0"

• szlib

  Download szip21-vs2005-enc.zip from ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/lib-external/szip/2.1/bin/windows/.

  unzip szip21-vs2005-enc.zip to C:\szip21-vs2005-enc.

  copy header files in C:\szip21-vs2005-enc\include to c:\include, copy C:\szip21-vs2005-enc\lib\szlib.lib to C:\lib.

  set SZLIB_LIBRARY to C:\lib\szlib.lib.

• OpenGL

  set GLU_INCLUDE_PATH to C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/PlatformSDK/Include.

  set GLU_LIBRARY to C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/PlatformSDK/Lib/GlU32.Lib.

  set GL_INCLUDE_PATH to C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/PlatformSDK/Include.

  set GL_LIBRARY to C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/PlatformSDK/Lib/OpenGL32.Lib.

4. Actions before build:

• In the Visual Studio 2005 menu, choose build -> configuration manager. Set the "Active Solution Configureation" to release. Then check the INSTALL and test in the check boxes.

• right click the "Solution 'EMAN2'" inthe left "Solution Explorer" pane, then choose "Build Solution". If you see all 27 projects build succeeded. Then you got a successfull EMAN2 build.

5. Ignore specific library LIBC.lib

If you see this error message, follow the solution.

Problem: LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'LIBC.lib'
Solution: right click project -> Properties -> Linker -> Input -> Ignore Specific Library -> LIBC.lib

6. After compilation

• change dll to pyd for all EMAN2 python extension libraries:
we need copy all the libpyxxx.dll file from EMAN2/bin directory to EMAN2/lib directory. And rename the dll extension to .pyd. Otherwise, we will get an error if we try to import EMAN2 in Python 2.5, "Import Error: no module named libpyxxx".
".dll is no longer supported as a filename extension for extension modules. .pyd is now the only filename extension that will searchfor".

7. runtime libraries for EMAN2 GUI program

• IPython

  Download ipython-0.8.4.win32-setup.exe from http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/. Click and install.

  Download pyreadline-1.5-win32-setup.exe from http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/. Click and install. This package is for proper color support in IPython shell.

• PyOpenGL

  To install PyOpenGL, we need install setuptools first. Download setuptools-0.6c8.win32-py2.5.exe from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#downloads. Click and install.

  Download PyOpenGL-3.0.0b2.zip from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyopengl

  unzip PyOpenGL-3.0.0b2.zip to C:\PyOpenGL-3.0.0b2.

  Open a console window, cd C:\PyOpenGL-3.0.0b2, then type "python setup.py install".

• glut dynamic library

  download glut-3.7.6-bin.zip from http://www.xmission.com/~nate/glut.html.

  unzip glut-3.7.6-bin.zip to C:\glut-3.7.6-bin.

  copy C:\glut-3.7.6-bin\glut32.dll to C:\EMAN2\lib directory.

• PyQt4

  Download PyQt-Py2.5-gpl-4.4.2-1.exe from http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download. Click and install.

  After everything installed, type e2.py, if you see error message like, "The procedure entry point _Z7qstrcmpRK10QByteArrayS1_ could not be located in the dynamic link library QtCore4.dll.". That means you may have other Qt4 libraries installed. Remove them, just use the Qt4 libraries come with PyQt4 will solve this problem.