[ome-devel] Builds of OmeroCpp

[Damir Sudar]

Thanks Josh and OME team.

After a couple of days of looking at OmeroCpp 5.0.8 and finding that we 
really do need something that can work on Windows, and we of course 
bumped into the error "LINK : fatal error LNK1189: library limit of 
65535 objects exceeded static lib". So the question: if we build 
OmeroCpp for 5.1-m4, how much trouble will we have connecting to a 
server running 5.0.8? Will basic operations such as image retrieval work?

And the alternative to that query: is there a way to successfully build 
OmeroCpp 5.0.8 on Windows with a work-around for the linking issue?

Cheers,
- Damir

On 2/24/2015 11:45 PM, Josh Moore wrote:
> Moving this somewhat progressed thread to the lists. ~J
>
>
> On 24/02/2015 14:14, "Damir Sudar" <dsudar at lbl.gov> wrote:
>
> Hi Roger and Emil,
>
> Thanks both for the quick and very useful answers. With a good handle on
> how to build (or download) the OmeroCpp package and with the very useful
> simple_omero routines, we'll be able to make quick progress on our
> Qt/C++ image analysis application and should be able to show that at the
> Paris meeting. As Jason strongly suggested, we'll continue the
> discussion about using OmeroCpp on the forum or mailing list so others
> can benefit and chime in.
>
> The only additional pre-builts that I would like to nominate are:
> - indeed Visual Studio 2013 (x64)
> - Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS and 14.04 LTS (or just 14.04 if 12.04 is too old)
> - and ultimately we'll need to upgrade to MacOS 10.10 but not really soon
>
> Cheers,
> - Damir
>
>
>
> On 2/23/2015 4:57 PM, Roger Leigh wrote:
>
> Hi Damir,
>
> For OmeroCpp, we currently are doing builds of OmeroCpp with cmake for
> several platforms:
>
>     https://ci.openmicroscopy.org/job/OMERO-5.1-latest-cpp/
>     - CentOS 6.5, MacOS 10.8, MacOS 10.9 and FreeBSD 10.1
>
>     https://ci.openmicroscopy.org/job/OMERO-5.1-latest-cpp-win/
>     - Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 (x64 debug)
>
>     Note that the coverage here is more for testing a variety of
> compilers and sytems rather than for their use to end users.  The
> coverage can certainly be expanded a bit for the release job, and I'd
> very much like for more platforms to be supported in the form of
> pre-built downloads in the medium term.  Adding a release build job for
> 5.1 is needed.
>
> I would have like to have been able to offer this for the 5.0.x OMERO
> releases as well.  Unfortunately, it wasn't possible to backport the
> cmake support for 5.0 due to it breaking compatibility in a stable
> release due to splitting up OmeroCpp into multiple DLLs.
>
> Which platforms are currently most important to you?  Is the above MSVC
> Windows coverage OK, or is VS2013 also required?  Which MacOS versions
> do you need?  And any particular Linux distribution versions?
>
> Last week we also updated our Windows Ice build to add the MSVC runtime
> to the release zips.  That went up for download today:
>     http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/ice/3.5.1/
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Roger
>
>
>
> On 21/02/2015 20:25, Damir Sudar wrote:
>
> Hi Roger and Emil,
>
> With Jason visiting us yesterday and the upcoming release of 5.1 and
> with us having made significant progress with our Qt/C++-based analysis
> software, I'm checking in again on the status of the OmeroCpp
> functionality.
>
> We looked at your explanations how to do builds and that appears fairly
> easy. It don't suppose that pre-builds are yet available for any other
> environments than CentOS 6.5, right? Will a MacOS pre-build happen as
> well?
>
> What is the current thinking about using the Windows builds? I see there
> are successful builds on Jenkins. Any chance that we will be able to use
> that with 5.1?
>
> And then the most important question for us: will the "simple_omero cpp"
> routines become available soon so we don't have to develop everything
> against the raw API?
>
> Cheers,
> - Damir
>
>
> <clip email thread from Jul 11, 2014>

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