Documentation:Install
Installation of BABEL
BABEL package
To install the BABEL development system (currently available for Windows only), go to the main BABEL website:
http://babel.isa.uma.es/babel2/
And download the latest BABEL release (as of this writting, BABEL - Endymion v0.39). Uncompress this file anywhere on your system, as long as its path does not contain spaces, for instance, 'c:\BABEL'.
Environment variable: PATH
For usage of the latest generator for Visual Studio 2008, you must add these directories to your system PATH variable:
<YOUR PROGRAM FILES>/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/Common7/IDE <YOUR PROGRAM FILES>/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/VC/bin/
Installing library dependencies
NOTE: These instructions DO NOT apply to the currently released version of BABEL yet!!
A BABEL module may have non-portable software dependencies, which means that the target system must have some pre-installed software library
in order to compile and/or execute the module.
We enumerate next the libraries used by some of these modules, among instructions for installing them.
OpenCV
Easiest way:
Download the installer packages for OpenCV 1.0.0 or OpenCV 1.1.0 from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22870&package_id=16937
Recommended way:
To enjoy of the latest version of OpenCV, check out a SVN snapshot (install TortoiseSVN) from:
https://opencvlibrary.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/opencvlibrary/trunk/opencv/
And follow the compiling instructions to generate the project files using CMake, then compile everything in Release and Debug.
Remember to add these directories to your system PATH:
<OPENCV_BUILD_DIR>/bin/Release <OPENCV_BUILD_DIR>/bin/Debug
Only if you have opted to compile opencv from sources, it is highly recommended to create an environment variable:
OpenCV_DIR = <OPENCV_BUILD_DIR>
in order to help CMake to always find the correct version of OpenCV.
MRPT
Recommended way:
If you don't want/need to compile MRPT from sources, just download the latest installer package ("Precompiled packages") from:
http://babel.isa.uma.es/mrpt/downloads/
Only if you need/have to hack MRPT sources:
Compile MRPT as explained here.
Remember to add these directories to your system PATH:
<MRPT_BUILD_DIR>/bin/Release <MRPT_BUILD_DIR>/bin/Debug