Re: [Openexr-user] help needed in installing open exr

[darby johnston]

--- Archana Gopalan <address@hidden>
wrote:

Hi Archana,

It looks like your build is unable to find the
"ilmbase" package, which OpenEXR is dependent on. I am
not so familiar with cygwin, but this is how I
generally build OpenEXR on my Linux system:

  > setenv BUILD_DIR /home/darby/build
  > cd $BUILD_DIR

  > gzcat ilmbase-1.0.1.tar.gz | tar xvf -
  > cd ilmbase-1.0.1
  > ./configure --prefix=$BUILD_DIR
  > make && make install
  > cd ..

  > gzcat openexr-1.6.1.tar.gz | tar xvf -
  > cd openexr-1.6.1
  > ./configure --prefix=$BUILD_DIR \
      PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$BUILD_DIR/lib/pkgconfig
  > make && make install

The variable BUILD_DIR is just the directory where I
am building the software. Note that you need to build
ilmbase first, and then OpenEXR. You also need to tell
OpenEXR where to find ilmbase, which in this case I am
doing with the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable. If pkg-config
isn't available in cygwin, you can also pass the
command-line argument --with-ilmbase-prefix=$BUILD_DIR
to the configure script.


Darby