Hugin Compiling Debian Raspberry

The Raspberry Pi (RPi) is a single board computer with a 700Mhz ARM CPU and 256MB of RAM.

This page explains how to compile Hugin on an RPi running Debian in order to get pto_gen working. If you just want pto_gen, I have prepared a binary package for ARM.

Another aproach would be to cross-compile using an ARM gcc toolchain.

sudo su -

# connect non-flash USB storage device (old HDD) for massive compilation/swapping IO
# I busted my SD card without this
# assumed this detects as /dev/sda

fdisk /dev/sda
# add 6GB ext4 partition
# add couple GB swap partion

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
swapon /dev/sda2

mkdir /mnt/sda1
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

# you can add these to /root/.bashrc
alias ai=’apt-get install --assume-yes’
alias as=’apt-cache search --only-titles’

# check if libpano13-2 is available in the stable repo
ai libpano13

# we need a libpano13-2 from the testing repo (omit if available in stable at the time you read this)
vi /etc/apt/source.list
# add: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main
# this will update all your packages to testing versions
# maybe there is a way to only get libpano13-2 without messing with your whole system?

# go get lunch during this command ;)
ai python-dev mercurial libwxgtk2.8-dev libtiff4-dev libpng12-dev swig2.0 \
   libopenexr-dev libexiv2-dev libglut3-dev libglew-dev libboost-dev \
   boost-build libboost-thread-dev libboost-graph-dev libboost-regex-dev \
   libboost-iostreams-dev libboost-filesystem-dev gettext liblapack-dev \
   libxi-dev libxmu-dev libboost-signals-dev libboost-system-dev \
   libtclap-dev liblensfun-dev cmake libpano13-2 libpano13-dev

ln -s /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/libtiff.so.5 /usr/lib/libtiff.so

cd /mnt/sda1

hg clone http://hugin.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/hugin/hugin

cd hugin

head -15 INSTALL_cmake | tail -10

# cmake will throw errors if any packages are missing. search & install them using as/ai
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local .

# compiling will take over 24h
make

make install