INSTALL.txt

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  Bundler v0.4 Installation Guide
    copyright 2009 Noah Snavely (snavely@cs.cornell.edu)
  
  based on the Photo Tourism work of Noah Snavely, Steven M. Seitz, 
    (University of Washington) and Richard Szeliski (Microsoft Research)

  For more technical information, visit http://phototour.cs.washington.edu

  The source provided in this distribution can be accessed at
    http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/bundler/
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This distribution contains source code for Bundler as well as several
libraries and utility programs.  Note that you'll need several other
libraries installed on your system in order to successfully compile
and link Bundler.  Note that the binary distribution is *highly
recommended*, as compiling from source is currently much less
user-friendly than using the pre-compiled binaries.  Compilation has
been tested on Linux, but has also worked under Windows using Cygwin
and Visual Studio 2005.

Bundler relies on several libraries.  Reference implementations from
netlib are included with this distribution (and available from
www.netlib.org, but you may want to install and link to optimized
versions (e.g., GotoBLAS, or the Intel MKL)).  In Ubuntu, LAPACK,
BLAS, and MINPACK and their dependencies can all be installed as
standard packages.  The required libraries are:

 - LAPACK  (the Linear Algebra PACKage) 
 - BLAS    (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms)
 - CBLAS   (C interface to BLAS)

   (Note that LAPACK, BLAS, and CBLAS implementations are also
    provided as part of Intel's Math Kernel Library -- these
    implementations can be significantly faster than the ones linked
    to here.)

 - MINPACK (non-linear minimization library)
 - f2c     (fortran to C library)

If you install alternate versions of these libraries, you may need to
edit the Bundler Makefile (src/Makefile) to make sure that these
libraries are all visible at link-time (or just copy the compiled
libraries to the $(BASE_PATH)/lib directory).  In addition to these
libraries, the standard libjpeg and libz libraries must be installed
on your system.

This distribution also contains a modified version of the Approximate
Nearest Neighbors (ANN) v1.1 library of David M. Mount and Sunil Arya
(http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mount/ANN/), and the Sparse Bundle Adjustment
(SBA) v.1.2.1 package of Manolis Lourakis and Antonis Argyros
(http://www.ics.forth.gr/~lourakis/sba/).

On a Linux (or cygwin) system, typing "make" in the base directory
will compile Bundler and its dependencies (assuming all goes well).
Upon successful compilation, an executable called 'bundler' will be
copied to the bin directory, along with an executable called
'KeyMatchAll'.

For Windows systems, see the vc++ directory for a Visual Studio 2005
solution file (vc++/Bundler.sln).  Note that you will still need
cygwin (or at least have bash and perl installed) in order to run the
RunBundler.sh script.

See the README.txt file for more information on running Bundler.