[ome-devel] Builds of OmeroCpp

[Josh Moore]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Damir Sudar <dsudar at lbl.gov> wrote:
> Thanks Josh and OME team.

Hi Damir,


> 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?

Highly unlikely to work at all.


> 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?

No immediate workarounds like setting some property, etc. I assume
your Visual Studio version requires Ice 3.5?

~J.


> 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
>>
>>
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