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[oats-sig] open gazer problems

stephen emslie stephenemslie at gmail.com
Wed Nov 7 22:21:23 GMT 2007

Article: [oats-sig] open gazer problems

Great that you got it working! It took me quite a while to get the
feel of compiling against vxl too.

I would love to hear any feedback on what sort of accuracy you are
able to achieve and what webcam you are using.

Stephen Emslie

On Nov 7, 2007 3:11 PM, Chris Feser <chrimp at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Thx Steve!
> Now I understand the connection from vxl to opengazer.
> I fixed it quick and dirty and copied the missing files to the expected
> directory. I have no idea what I did wrong the whole time, but now it works.
>
> thank you all very much for your help!
>
> I wrote the developer of opengazer an email if there is a support forum or a
> mailing list, but I have no answer yet.
> Does anybody of you have an idea or is this forum the best place for
> opengazer problems?
>
> I'll play around with opengazer and try to extend it or even will try, to
> port it to Windows.
>
> cheers and have a nice day!
>
> chris
>
>
>
>
> Steve Lee-3 wrote:
> >
>
> > Hi Chris, yes, and to give a little more detail to my previous reply....
> >
> > taking theLeastSquares.h:2:28  error as an example
> > Look in the file LeastSquares.h line 28
> > it will have a line something like
> > #include <vnl.vnl_vector.h>
> > or
> > #include "vnl.vnl_vector.h"
> >
> > I'm guess  from the error it has <vnl/vnl_vector.h>.
> >
> > The critical thing is if it is prefixed 'vnl/'. if so then the
> > compiler will search for a file 'vnl/vnl_vector.h' under each of the
> > paths specified in you makefile with INCLUDES. In other words
> > vnl_vector.h is sought in a folder vnl under each given path.
> > (if the #include "file" form is used life is a little more complex but
> > we can probably ignore that)
> >
> > If your vnl_vector.h is not in such a folder then you can either copy
> > all of them for a quick fix or change the makefile to change where the
> > compiler is told to look.
> >
> > I'm afraid I'm tied up at the mo and can't check the real files but
> > perhaps stephen can shed a little more light on the matter?
> > * stephen where are your vnl headers?
> > I have Gutsy so will try, but it probably won't be till next week.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > On 06/11/2007, Chris Feser <chrimp at gmx.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thx.
> >> I think I have a problem wih the header files.
> >> Should they be there, where I compiled VXL into?
> >> BUILD_SHARED_LIBS are ON and I changes the  CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to
> >> /usr/bin
> >> because I compiled VLX now into this directory.
> >>
> >> Could yo please tell me, where are the header files should be?
> >>
> >> I use ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy
> >>
> >> cheers
> >> chris
> >>
> >>
> >> Stephen Emslie wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Now that I'm home perhaps I can compare my own Makefile.
> >> >
> >> >> but my compiled vxl is there:
> >> >>  /home/chris/Desktop/software/bin
> >> > ...
> >> >> My Makefile looks like this:
> >> >> # required libraries: vxl, opencv, boost, gtkmm
> >> >>
> >> >> VXLDIR = /home/chris/Desktop/software/bin
> >> >
> >> > It could be that the header files built when installing vxl are not in
> >> > /home/chris/Desktop/software/bin? When you configured vxl with cmake,
> >> > what was "CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX" set to (mine is /usr - same as
> >> > VXLDIR)? Obviously "BUILD_SHARED_LIBS" needs to be on for this to
> >> > work.
> >> >
> >> > The only thing I really had to change in the Makefile was to set the
> >> > VXLDIR to the same as the install prefix.
> >> >
> >> > Best of luck
> >> >
> >> > Stephen Emslie
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> --
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> >> Nabble.com.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Steve Lee
> > --
> > Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers
> > www.fullmeasure.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
>
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