[ome-devel] Difficulty building windows applications with ome-files C++

[Lionel Fafchamps]

Hi,

We are trying to build a microscopy software suite using Qt and would 
like to be able to save OME-Tiff files as our default file option, since 
these are easily compatible with most image manipulation suites and the 
metadata is also easily accessed.

I’ve been having some trouble building working windows applications with 
the OME-files C++ library (version 0.2.2).  I’m currently using VC14 on 
Windows 10, and I’ve tried x64 and x86 configurations with both the 
release and debug versions of the libraries.  In order to test my build 
configuration, I’m building the metadata-formatwriter.cpp example.

Generally speaking, everything appears to work on the surface, but 
running the executable I always get the following exception: “Invalid 
OME-XML document” upon calling the close() method of the OMETiffWriter. 
The resulting tiff file seems to contain all of the pixel data, but the 
metadata is missing from the file.  I’ve tried building the same example 
file from Linux and it appears to work correctly.

Has anyone ever spotted this problem before, and could it be there’s 
something wrong with my build configuration somehow?  Are there any 
examples of build configurations under windows?

Thanks for your help,
Lionel