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Nightview installation

After successful download of Nightview, we can try to install one.

If, there is need to install the camera server (switch --with-sbigudrv see below), it is absolutely necessary to install SBIG Universal library before.

There is limited possibility to fit the installation according to your needs. By this way, you can reduce of known "dependency hell". By running of the command

 
 ./configure --help

you can show the possible switches to be used to control of compilation. For example:

 ...
 --with-sbig          build with driver library by S. Ashe (no)
 --with-sbigudrv      build with SBIG Universal Driver/Library (yes)
 --with-curl          build with cURL library support (no)
 --with-nighthttpd    build with nightview HTTP server (yes)
 --with-cgi           build with nightview cgi scripts (no)
 --with-mount         build with mount support (yes)
 --with-shell         build with command line utilities (yes)
 --with-gtknightview  build with GUI for camera, gtk+ (no)
 --with-xnightview    build with GUI for camera, wxWidgets (yes)
 --with-xmove         build with GUI for mount (yes)
 --with-doc           build more documentation (no)
 ...

Default setting is recommended for typical installation. If you are building the server (without graphical front-ends) select these switches:

 ./configure --without-xnightview --without-xmove

If, we will build the package on system different of 32-bit Linux system (where SBIG cameras are unsupported) select these switches:

 ./configure --without-sbigudrv

Simply, select what you want. Better description of requirements and dependencies is summarized in paragraph Installation requirements.

The setting of the environment variables can also affect of the compilation. For example, a progressive optimization of the output code (it is strongly recommended!) is provided by CFLAGS variable

 bash$ CFLAGS=-O ./configure

When the package is successfully configured by the ./configure utility, simply run

 make install

to install the package to a target directory /usr/local (if switch --prefix is not specified to configure script).

Note. The installation under FreeBSD can work with parameters:

 csh:> ./configure --without-sbigudrv LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib \
       CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include

Un-installation

Type

 make uninstall

in installation directory to do it.

Installation requirements

Any Linux distribution or Unix-like system
cfitsio library (build as shared library)
SBIG camera library (optional, for camera daemon only)
wxWidgets library (optional, for graphical interfaces)

Alternatively, it is possible use of various configuration options in case of non-typical installation. The following packages can be useful: cURL, gtk+ 1.2, wxPython.

Bugs

The configuration process reports somethink link this:

 
checking sbigudrv.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: sbigudrv.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: sbigudrv.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: sbigudrv.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: sbigudrv.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: sbigudrv.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: sbigudrv.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to hroch@physics.muni.cz ##
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
checking for sbigudrv.h... yes

This is a some anomaly in the header file and it can be safety ignored.

Follow to Configuration page.

Last modification: 2009-01-22 16:06:31