Hugin Compiling Ubuntu

These instructions are work in progress and updated when newer versions of Ubuntu are released or when Hugin introduces new dependencies. They have worked, at the time of release or soon thereafter, with all versions of Ubuntu/Kubuntu up until 10.04.

They are likely to work only for the latest one, but you can check this page's history at the time that the older Ubuntu version was the most recent one to find the specifics for that version.

Apart from the odd change in package name, nothing should be substantially different (and if does not work, please leave a comment on the hugin-ptx mailing list). Don't worry if the same package appears twice in an apt-get install line - apt-get will update existing packages if there is a newer version, and ignore duplicates if the latest version is already installed. On the other hand, if apt-get says that it can't find a package, it might be the odd change in package name. You can find a replacement package by using apt-cache search with a substring of the package required, e.g.

apt-cache search wxW

The goal is to build hugin and the whole set of helper applications required.

Building environment

Since we are going to build hugin, libpano13 and enblend we need to download and install all the development packages. This is very easy with apt-get. In a terminal window (K menu -> System -> Konsole or Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal (in Kubuntu), Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal (in Ubuntu))

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake1.9 libtool flex bison gdb libc6-dev libgcc1 \
   cmake

To get the bleeding edge we'll need access to the SVN and Mercurial repositories, and for this we need the correct tools:

sudo apt-get install subversion mercurial

Not necessary, but useful if you want to move to the next level and build packages for distribution (list is incomplete):

sudo apt-get install subversion-tools

Not necessary, but useful if you want to revisit configuration sets in ccmake

sudo apt-get install cmake-curses-gui

To get on the same page as far as file system layout is concerned, we'll create a folder to contain all source code in your home folder:

cd
mkdir -p src

Building Enblend

Get the dependencies. If you are working with large images (300 megapixels and up), you should have a libtiff-devel compiled with large file support and libstdc++6.

sudo apt-get install pkg-config libtiff4-dev libboost-graph-dev libboost-thread-dev \
  libboost-filesystem-dev liblcms1-dev libglew1.5-dev libplot-dev libglut3-dev libopenexr-dev \
  libxi-dev libxmu-dev help2man texi2html texinfo fig2ps tidy gnuplot libxml-xpath-perl imagemagick

Once all dependencies are in place, get the code. The official repository has migrated from CVS to Mercurial:

mkdir -p ~/src/enblend
cd ~/src/enblend
hg clone http://enblend.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/enblend/enblend enblend.hg
cd enblend.hg

If you already have checked out enblend, to update the code to the latest version you need to run:

hg pull
hg update

Then create a build directory and build in there. And install the Package

cd ..
mkdir enblend.build
cd enblend.build
cmake ../enblend.hg -DENABLE_GPU:BOOL=ON -DENABLE_IMAGECACHE:BOOL=OFF -DENABLE_OPENMP:BOOL=ON \
  -DCPACK_BINARY_DEB:BOOL=ON -DCPACK_BINARY_NSIS:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_RPM:BOOL=OFF \
  -DCPACK_BINARY_STGZ:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_TBZ2:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_TGZ:BOOL=OFF \
  -DCPACK_BINARY_TZ:BOOL=OFF
make package
sudo dpkg -i enblend-4.1.1-Linux.deb

The above options are good for modern multi-core computers. For a single core, you may be better off setting ENABLE_OPENMP to OFF and ENABLE_IMAGECACHE to ON. The two options are mutually exclusive.

The old autotools way

We are then ready to compile. The CXXFLAGS --param inline-unit-growth=60 is a workaround for x86_64 systems, Feb 2009, and apparently no longer needed (set by default). If you have an SMP machine and you're building a recent version, --disable-image-cache and --enable-openmp will speed up enblend/enfuse massively but may cause segmentation faults; in that case you will be better off with --enable-image-cache and --disable-openmp. -march=native is also beneficial and -O2 is better than -O3.

make --makefile=Makefile.scm
mkdir BUILD
cd BUILD
CXXFLAGS="--param inline-unit-growth=60 -march=native -O2" ../configure --disable-image-cache \
   --enable-openmp
make

The second make step can be very long and memory consuming. Make sure you have enough swap space, and go get a healthy snack while the computer is compiling.

If you encounter problems at any of these stages, please report back to the hugin-ptx mailing list. Report what command in the sequence you were executing, what machine/operating system, the revision checked out from CVS, and all other relevant information.

You are then ready to install with

sudo make install

Building Libpano13

libpano13 is the new version of the PanoTools libraries. This is a necessary component for hugin, and we need to build it first. To build libpano13 we need some libraries and particularly their dev package:

sudo apt-get install zlib1g zlib1g-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev libtiff4-dev cmake

On older distributions, zlib1g and zlib1g-dev may not be found. In that case, the same library may be available with the names lib64z1 and lib64z1-dev.

We then need to download the source code from SVN:

mkdir -p ~/src/libpano
cd ~/src/libpano
svn co https://panotools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/panotools/trunk/libpano libpano13.svn
cd libpano13.svn

In the future there is no need to get the whole source again. Just issue the following commands to bring your source up to date:

cd ~/src/libpano/libpano13.svn
svn up

Now start the building process.

cd ..
mkdir libpano.build
cd libpano.build
cmake ../libpano13.svn -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -DCPACK_BINARY_DEB:BOOL=ON \
   -DCPACK_BINARY_NSIS:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_RPM:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_STGZ:BOOL=OFF \
   -DCPACK_BINARY_TBZ2:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_TGZ:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_TZ:BOOL=OFF
make package
sudo dpkg -i libpano13-*-Linux.deb

The old autotools way

The above described building process uses CMake to build libpano which has many advantages. Amongst others it creates a clean package to install / deinstall and decreases the likelihood of wrecking the system. However CMake support is relatively new in libpano. The old autotools way is documented below for completness. You should not need it. However if you do, make sure to run either the CMake build or the autotools build on fresh SVN checkouts to avoid interferences.

./bootstrap

If any libraries are missing, the script will complain (or at least, let you know that some library hasn't been found). In that case you probably need to install the library. To find in what package is that library, a general rule is to run the command apt-cache search missingfile, find the relevant library and install both the library and the related -dev package. Run the ./configure script and repeat this process until you have met all the dependencies.

Then we are ready to launch the make process with

make

If the library successfully compiles, you have to install it with

sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

The last part is for the OS to be aware of the new library (that has been installed in /usr/local/lib). We can now go back up one folder level and get ready for hugin.

cd ..

Building Hugin

Dependencies

First we need to activate the universe repository (in adept package manager, or by editing the /etc/apt/sources.lst file for example) and get the dependencies:

sudo apt-get install cmake libopenexr-dev libboost-dev boost-build libboost-thread-dev \
   libboost-graph-dev gettext libwxgtk2.8-dev libexiv2-dev libimage-exiftool-perl \
   libglew-dev libglut3-dev liblapack-dev

Fetch the Source Code with Mercurial

In May 2010 the Hugin project migrated from Subversion (SVN) to Mercurial (hg). SVN-related instructions are generally outdated.

First we clone the repository. Unlike SVN, we do not need to choose at this moment which version of Hugin to download/build yet.

If you already have a repository clone, you only need to pull the latest changes and update the code with:

cd ~/src/hugin/hugin.hg
hg pull
hg update

Else, you need to clone the repository and decide which version/branch to build with:

mkdir -p ~/src/hugin
cd ~/src/hugin
hg clone http://hugin.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/hugin/hugin hugin.hg
cd hugin.hg
hg branches

The `hg branches` command will list all available branches. If you decide, e.g., to build the 2010.0 branch, you will update to it with:

hg update -C 2010.0

Advanced Use - Multiple Source Trees

You may want to build multiple versions of Hugin on your machine at the same time, e.g. when you want to build side by side a stable version for your productivity and a development version to give feedback to the developers. In that case, you will clone the Mercurial repository that is already on your drive and update from it a source tree to a different branch. Mercurial takes care of details such as optimizing disk usage. The commands for this are:

cd ..
hg clone hugin.hg another_hugin
cd another_hugin
hg update -C default

You can have as many "another_hugin" folders as you want. Just make sure, when pulling the latest updates from SourceForge, to first pull your main repository (the one you cloned from http://hugin.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/hugin/hugin. Then pull all others:

cd ~/src/hugin/hugin.hg
hg pull
hg update
cd ../another_hugin
hg pull
hg update

Reference: [1]

Configure the Build Environment

Rule: You always want to build outside of the source tree to keep the source tree clean. And to avoid confusion, if you have multiple source trees it is preferable to build for each of them in a separate build folder.

Next we set up the build environment using cmake.

If you compiled and installed libpano to a non standard location set the variables CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH and CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH to point to your install location's include and lib directories.

If you are building for distribution, you want to set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr

cd ~/src/hugin
mkdir hugin.hg-build
cd hugin.hg-build
cmake ../hugin.hg -DENABLE_LAPACK=YES -DCPACK_BINARY_DEB:BOOL=ON -DCPACK_BINARY_NSIS:BOOL=OFF \
   -DCPACK_BINARY_RPM:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_STGZ:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_TBZ2:BOOL=OFF \
   -DCPACK_BINARY_TGZ:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_TZ:BOOL=OFF

Build and Install

Finally, we use make to build the code and package it, and dpkg to install it. Look for the version number in the .deb file created and edit the lines below accordingly:

make package
sudo dpkg -i hugin-*-Linux.deb
sudo ldconfig

Important: the package does not track dependencies yet, so it likely to fail on machines others than yours.

Reference: [2]

Automatic Control Point Detectors

Autopano-sift-C

Pre-Requisites:

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev

To build

(Note January 2010 / May 2010: Currently the autopano-sift-C SVN trunk, as well as Hg default tip, is unstable, use the 2.5.1 release tarball instead)

mkdir -p ~/src/apsc
cd ~/src/apsc
hg clone http://hugin.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/hugin/autopano-sift-C apsc.hg
cd apsc.hg
hg branches
hg update -C 2.5.1
cd ..
mkdir apsc.hg.build
cd apsc.hg.build
cmake ../apsc.hg -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -DCPACK_BINARY_DEB:BOOL=ON \
   -DCPACK_BINARY_NSIS:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_RPM:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_STGZ:BOOL=OFF \
   -DCPACK_BINARY_TBZ2:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_TGZ:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_TZ:BOOL=OFF
make package
sudo dpkg -i autopano-sift-C-*-Linux.deb

Match-n-shift

Match-n-shift is yet an other Autopano-SIFT replacement. It comes in a bundle with pto file manipulation perl libraries and a rich selection of other tools that use nona, enblend, ImageMagick among other things. To use match-n-shift, you need to install at least the Panotools::Script library and some other perl modules. It requires:

Image::Size 2.9
Storable 2.0
Image::ExifTool 6

Chances are that you do not need to update Storable which is a standard perl module. To check the version of installed versions of these modules, write these lines to the command prompt:

 perl -MStorable -le 'print Storable->VERSION;'
 perl -MImage::Size -le 'print Image::Size->VERSION;'
 perl -MImage::ExifTool -le 'print Image::ExifTool->VERSION;'

There are various ways to install or upgrade these modules. Ubuntu has binary packages for many perl modules, you can skip the CPAN installation below and type:

 sudo apt-get install libimage-size-perl libimage-exiftool-perl

Alternatively, perl is an interpreted language and these modules are pure perl, so installing from source is an easy thing.

The best place to install perl modules is directly from a CPAN archive. CPAN is short for Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. The program to interact with CPAN comes with all perl installations. Start it by running:

 sudo cpan

If this is your first time running the program you will be asked a number of questions (you can safely accept the suggested values). Last question lets you select a number of CPAN mirrors nearest to you.

When all is done, you can enter the install commands after the 'cpan>' prompt:

 install Image::Size Storable Image::ExifTool

Answer 'y' to any question of dependencies and wait for install to complete. 'exit' leaves the cpan shell.

Next, you need to retrieve and install the Panotools-Script collection of perl libraries (Panotools::Script) and programs that use them - including match-n-shift:

 svn co https://panotools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/panotools/trunk/Panotools-Script  Panotools-Script
 cd Panotools-Script
 perl Makefile.PL
 make
 make test
 sudo make install

Just to confuse you, you can also ignore everything above and just install Panotools::Script and all its dependencies from CPAN. From command line, type:

 sudo cpan Panotools::Script

You can run match-n-shift from command line using the same parameters as autopano-c-complete.sh or you can modify hugin to run it for you:

start Hugin
navigate the menu File to Preferences
In the Preferences window, open the Autopano tab
Select Autopano -> Autopano-SIFT
tick the checkbox for Use alternative Autopano-SIFT program
enter the full path to match-n-shift (/usr/local/bin/match-n-shift) in the Autopano-SIFT field
enter the following string in the Arguments field:

-f %f -v %v -c -p %p -o %o %i

MatchPoint

MatchPoint is a next generation CP generator. The result of a GSoC2007 project, it is still very experimental. Experience reports needed. Read more here

Matchpoint is now located inside the main hugin source tree, no need to checkout separately. It is compiled together with hugin, but not installed by default.

copy the MatchPoint executable into /usr/local/bin manually

sudo cp src/matchpoint/matchpoint /usr/local/bin/

edit /usr/local/bin/autopano-c-complete.sh (do it with sudo to have the necessary permission)
- line 79: replace the .key.gz extension with .key (not sure if matchpoint supports compression)
- lines 83 and 88: replace generatekeys "$arg" $FILENAME $SIZE with matchpoint "$arg" $FILENAME (not sure if the size option or any other options of the original generatekeys are applicable)

Pan-o-matic

Yet another control point generator Home Page

sudo apt-get install libboost-dev

Download Panomatic 0.9.4 bz2 and if you're on Ubuntu 9.10 or newer also the patch for the gcc4.4 compiler.

mkdir -p ~/src/panomatic
cd ~/src/panomatic
wget "http://aorlinsk2.free.fr/panomatic/download.php?d=7&v=0.9.4"
wget http://aorlinsk2.free.fr/panomatic/panomatic_gcc44.patch patch
tar xvfj panomatic-0.9.4-src.tar.bz2
cd panomatic-0.9.4
patch -p 1 < ../panomatic_gcc44.patch
./configure
make
sudo make install

To use Pano-o-matic, open Hugin

In File > Preferences > Autopano :
Select Autopano-SIFT
Check "Use alternative autopaon-SIFT program"
Choose the path to the binary ( /usr/local/bin )
In Arguments, put : -o %o %i

Pablo's variation

Around the end of the year 2009, Pablo integrated a new experimental descriptor based on the geometric blur and DAISY papers. Also, Pablo said that the algorithm is not really based on a published approach, just on some ideas that are mentioned in a few of them, and its currently simpler than any of them:

o geometric blur: [3]

o daisy: [4]

o descriptor learning: [5]

To build that version of panomatic instead, follow these instructions:

This is current the subject of a GSoC 2010 project and may be available in future versions of Hugin.

sudo aptitude install libboost-python-dev bzr cmake libvigraimpex-dev

bzr branch lp:~pablo.dangelo/hugin/panomatic-lib
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../panomatic-lib
make
sudo make install

To use the new descriptor the arguments for Hugin are: --sieve1size 100 --sieve2size 2 -o %o %i

Exiftool

ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in image, audio and video files. Home Page

sudo apt-get purge libimage-exiftool-perl

wget http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/Image-ExifTool-8.29.tar.gz
tar -xzf Image-ExifTool-8.29.tar.gz
cd Image-ExifTool-8.29
perl Makefile.PL
make test
sudo make install

Pano Viewers

Panoglview

PanoGLView is an OpenGL hardware accelerated interactive immersive viewer for equirectangular images.

Pre-Requisites:

sudo apt-get install wx-common

To build and install:

mkdir -p ~/src/panoglview
cd ~/src/panoglview
hg clone http://hugin.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/hugin/panoglview pglv.hg
cd pglv.hg
hg update
./bootstrap
./configure
make
sudo make install

FreePV - DEPENDENCIES ARE BROKEN - FAILS TO BUILD

Pre-Requisites:

sudo apt-get install cmake make pkg-config g++ mozilla-devscripts freeglut3-dev zlib1g-dev \
   libjpeg-dev libxext-dev libxmu-dev x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev libxxf86vm-dev libnspr4-dev \
   libxml2-dev libpng12-dev

To build

svn co https://freepv.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/freepv/freepv/trunk/ freepv
cd freepv
cmake .
make
sudo make install

Notes for Packagers

Outdated - need something equivalent with Hg: before releasing a tarball, upgrade the Changelog with svn2cl

$ svn up
$ svn2cl
$ svn ci

Hugin Compiling Ubuntu

Contents

Building environment

Building Enblend

The old autotools way

Building Libpano13

The old autotools way

Building Hugin

Dependencies

Fetch the Source Code with Mercurial

Advanced Use - Multiple Source Trees

Configure the Build Environment

Build and Install

Automatic Control Point Detectors

Autopano-sift-C

Match-n-shift

MatchPoint

Pan-o-matic

Pablo's variation

Exiftool

Pano Viewers

Panoglview

FreePV - DEPENDENCIES ARE BROKEN - FAILS TO BUILD

Notes for Packagers

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