[Motmot] fview -> FastImage -> Framewave problem

[Andrew Straw]

On 5/23/10 8:00 PM, Jack Keegan wrote:
> I've been at it around 12 hours now and from what I can see it's 
> trying to call some headers which, from what I can make out, belong to 
> something called Framewave. This has a manual install procedure so I'm 
> apprehensive about installing until after I get some sleep.
> It occurs to me though that there much be others who have tried to 
> install on a mac, and if so, the Framewave requirement would be 
> documented somewhere. Therefore I'm thinking I must be going about 
> something the wrong way so I was hoping someone could help me debug this.
>
> I'm going to sleep on it and come back to it tomorrow. Any help you 
> could give would be greatly appreciated.

Dear Jack,

I apologize for the difficulties you've been having on Mac. A couple of 
thoughts that are hopefully helpful:

First, if you don't need flytrax or other plugins that use it, you don't 
need FastImage. FastImage is only used for realtime image analysis. 
Also, there would be other ways to do realtime image analysis (e.g. 
OpenCV and their new Python wrappers).

Second, although I have had FastImage working on Mac, I believe it was 
with the Intel IPP rather than Framewave. I have two branches of 
FastImage -- one that uses the open source Framewave and the other than 
uses the closed source (but inexpensive) Intel IPP. If you start having 
real troubles with Framewave on Mac, try IPP. (By the way, I agree with 
your assessment of the issue -- your first error in the output you 
included is indeed that the compiler can't find a framewave header 
file.) You can download the source for the IPP version of FastImage at 
http://github.com/motmot/fastimage/tarball/release/0.5.4.ipp

Third, to figure out if this software is suitable for you without 
spending all this time compiling from source, I recommend trying my 
precompiled Ubuntu binaries. At least this will give you an idea of 
whether the software will be useful for you before investing too much 
more time in the compilation dance.

Good luck,
Andrew

-- 
Andrew D. Straw, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~astraw/