LibRaw is distributed in the form of source codes and/or precompiled binaries. For further use, they should be compiled (and, if desired, placed into system folders with libraries and include-files).

Unix Systems (FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X)

To build the library, you will need a working C++ compiler (gcc ver. 3.x or 4.x will be OK; other compilers have not been tested) and the make utility. No other libraries or utilities are required.

LibRaw has been tested on 32- and 64-bit Unix systems working on x86- (and AMD64-) compatible processors. Building and work on other architectures have not been tested.

Compilation of Library and Examples

Unpack the downloaded distribution package, go to the resultant folder and run make:

        tar xzvf LibRaw-X.YY.tar.gz
        cd  LibRaw-X.YY
        make
    

As a result, you will compile

• Library libraw.a in the lib/ folder
• Examples in the bin/ folder (source codes of examples are in the samples/ folder).

In the current version, only static libraries are built:

• libraw.a: non-thread-safe version
• libraw_r.a: thread-safe

Compilation with LCMS (ICC profiles) support

For LCMS support one should uncomment two lines of Makefile after the line

# LCMS support

It is assumed, that LCMS library is installed in /usr/local/lib or /usr/lib, and lcms.h installed in /usr/local/include or /usr/include. If you have different LCMS installation path, you should edit Makefile settings.

OpenMP Support

For compilation with OpenMP support uncomennt line of Makefile next after the line

# OpenMP support

Installation and Usage

To install the library, run

    make install
    

It will place the libraries in /usr/local/lib and the include-files in /usr/local/include (subfolder of libraw).
To use LibRaw, add the following parameters to the compiler call (when building your own projects):

• Path to include-files: -I/usr/local/include
• Path to libraries: -L/usr/local/lib
• Library: -lraw (ordinary version) or -lraw_r (thread-safe version).

Installation of Examples

To install examples, run make install-binaries. This command will copy all compiled examples to /usr/local/bin.

Windows: Building under Cygwin

Building and installation are completely similar to building and installation under Unix systems.

Windows: Native Building

Building under Windows has three steps:

• Unpack the distribution package (if you have got no tar+gzip, take the LibRaw distribution package in the .ZIP format) and go to folder LibRaw-X.YYY.
• Set the environment parameters so that the compiler/linker would find the libraries and include-files. For Visual C++, this is done by running vcvars32.bat.
• Run
  nmake -f Makefile.msvc
  

If all paths are set correctly and the include-files/libraries have been found, then the following will be compiled:

• Library libraw_static.lib in folder lib
• Dynamic library bin/libraw.dll and linking library for it lib/libraw.lib
• Examples in folder bin/.

Only the thread-safe library is built under Win32, but it can be used with non-threaded applications as well. All examples are linked with the dynamic library (DLL); if static linking is necessary, one should link applications with library libraw_static.lib and set the preprocessor option /DLIBRAW_NODLL during compilation.

Windows-version compiles without LCMS support for now.

During building of DLL, all public functions are exported; further, the exported subset may be reduced.

Unfortunately, paths to include/ libraries depend on the way Visual C (or other compiler) is installed; therefore, it is impossible to specify some standard paths in Makefile.msvc.

Windows Installation

No installation under Windows is supported. It is assumed that all DLLs will be supplied together with the software using them (and this software will perform the installation). Accordingly, in building of programs using LibRaw, the paths to libraries, DLLs, and include-files should be specified manually.