Installation on Windows

Tools and Dependencies

CMake

Download and install CMake.

Qt 4.8

Download Qt4.8 Windows binaries that correspond to your Visual Studio Installation (VS 2008 or VS 2010). If you have VS 2012, use the version for VS 2010. Install Visual Studio Add-In.

FFTW

FFTW precompiled binairies for Windows 7 are included in the libs/FFTW/WIN32 and libs/FFTW/WIN64 folders. It should work on Windows 8 but has not been tested. If you want to compile binaries for a different Windows version, follow the instructions.

Building on Windows

1. Create a new build directory in fibercompression folder

2. Open CMake gui

3. Set source code directory to fibercompression folder

4. Set build binairies directory to the new build directory previously created

5. Press configure

6. If you want to use other FFTW binaries than the provided ones, replace FFTW_DIR by the folder containing the following files : libfftw3-3.lib libfftw3-3.dll libfftw3-3.def and fftw3.h

7. Press configure again

8. Generate (will generate the Visual Studio Solution)

9. Choose your Visual Studio version when asking for the generator (example Visual Studio 10)

10. Your Visual Studio solution is now created in the build directory.

11. Open the Visual Studio Solution

12. Choose Release configuration and build solution. There is two projects to be built : fibercompression (commandline) and fibercompression_gui (interface).

13. fibercompression and fibercompression_gui executables are available in build/Release folder.