[ome-devel] Getting started with C++ API for OMERO.server clients

[josh.moore at gmx.de]

Nick Perry writes:
 > Hey Josh,

Hey Nick,

 > Sorry I'm not as familiar with compiling C++ / makefiles as I should be, but
 > in the following step:

No worries. It's simply not a lot of fun. :)

 > Finding the library
 > ¶<http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/omero/wiki/OmeroCpp#Findingthelibrary>
 > 
 > What will be produced by that build are two sets of artifacts:
 > 
 >    - dist/include contains C++ header files as well as the
 > slice<hhttp://zeroc.com/doc/Ice-3.3.0/manual/Slice.html>files from
 > which the Ice-based model is generated. You will need to pass
 >    these to your compiler.
 >    - dist/lib contains the shared library file, which you will need to pass
 >    to your linker. On Linux libomero_client.so on OS X
 > libomero_client.dyliband on Windows
 >    omero_client.dll, in 32 or 64-bit mode depending on your CXXFLAGS (See
 >    OmeroBuild <http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/omero/wiki/OmeroBuild>)
 > 
 > Note: the shared library files can be quite large, even over 200MB.
 > 
 > 
 > For bullet 2, do I need to pass my shared library file explicitly in a step
 > I should know how to do, or is this accomplished in the next step when I use
 > the make file?

The Makefile is one way to pass the shared library to a build. If
you or someone else were not using make, then it'd have to be done
differently. For example, manually:

  g++ -lomero_client ....

or in Visual Studio it has to be added to the project.

So in your case, the only thing you have to do is download Makefile
and yourcode.cpp to the "omero" directory, and execute the shell
statements shown:

  make OMERO_DIST=dist yourcode
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=dist/lib ./yourcode --Ice.Config=dist/etc/ice.config

Hope that helps,
~Josh.

 > Thanks,
 > 
 > Nick
 > 
 > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:54 AM, <josh.moore at gmx.de> wrote:
 > 
 > >
 > > *whew*
 > >
 > > Good to hear. ~J.
 > >
 > > Nick Perry writes:
 > >  > just kidding; i hadn't given the svn command my proxy info :)
 > >  >
 > >  > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Nick Perry <nperry at stanford.edu>
 > > wrote:
 > >  >
 > >  > > SVN still not working:
 > >  > >
 > >  > > svn co http://cvs.openmicroscopy.org.uk/svn/omero/trunk omero
 > >  > >
 > >  > > svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/omero/trunk'
 > >  > > svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/omero/trunk': could not connect to server (
 > >  > > http://cvs.openmicroscopy.org.uk)
 > >  > >
 > >  > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:05 PM, <josh.moore at gmx.de> wrote:
 > >  > >
 > >  > >>
 > >  > >> Nick Perry writes:
 > >  > >>  > Hi,
 > >  > >>
 > >  > >> Hi Nick,
 > >  > >>
 > >  > >>  > I'm extremely confused about where to start when trying to play
 > >  > >>  > around with the OMERO server C++ API for OMERO clients. I think
 > >  > >>  > this is the correct page to start on
 > >  > >>  > http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/omero/wiki/OmeroCpp, but I'm
 > >  > >>  > having a hard time understanding what's going on.
 > >  > >>
 > >  > >> That is the correct page, but as always, the docs can use
 > >  > >> improvements. I've updated them; can you give take a look, and tell
 > > me
 > >  > >> if things are clearer now?
 > >  > >>
 > >  > >>  > First of all, the svn call
 > >  > >>  > on that page (svn co
 > > http://cvs.openmicroscopy.org.uk/svn/omero/trunkomero)
 > >  > >>  > doesn't work; i get the following error:
 > >  > >>  >
 > >  > >>  > svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/omero/trunk'
 > >  > >>  > svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/omero/trunk': could not connect to server (
 > >  > >>  > http://cvs.openmicroscopy.org.uk)
 > >  > >>  >
 > >  > >>  > Why is this not working?
 > >  > >>
 > >  > >> This morning there was a short outage of all developer
 > >  > >> resources. Could you re-try and let us know if it's working now?
 > >  > >>
 > >  > >> ...
 > >  > >>  > Thanks,
 > >  > >>  > Nick
 > >  > >>
 > >  > >> ~Josh.
 > >  > >>
 > >  > >
 > >  > >
 > >