Computer Vision (UW CSE P576, Winter 2005)

Installing FLTK...

In the lab

FLTK is already installed and configured in the Graphics Lab and 2nd/3rd floor labs.  The files are located in the directory "d:\local\fltk".

At home

1. Copy FLTK files

  • Download FLTK 1.1.4 here.  This version is compatible with all project skeletons.
  • Unzip the contents of this archive to C:\Program Files\FLTK.

2. Configure MSVC

  • Open MSVC, and click Tools->Options.
  • Click the "Directories" tab.
  • Change the drop-down to "Include Files"
  • Add the item "C:\Program Files\fltk-1.1.4"
  • Change the drop-down to "Library Files"
  • Add the item "C:\Program Files\fltk-1.1.4\lib"

3. Verify that your project is linking with the correct library

  • In MSVC, click Project->Settings...
  • Click the "C++" tab.
  • Change the "Category" drop-down to "Code Generation".
  • If the project configuration is Release, change the "Use run-time library" drop down to "Multithreaded DLL".
  • If the project configuration is Debug, change the "Use run-time library" drop down to "Debug Multithreaded DLL".
  • Click the "Link" tab.
  • If the project configuration is Release, make sure that "fltk.lib" (and not "fltkd.lib") is present in edit box labeled "Object/Library modules".
  • If the project configuration is Debug, make sure that "fltkd.lib" (and not "fltk.lib") is present in edit box labeled "Object/Library modules".

That's it!

Expert Installation

Linux

1. Install Mesa
As the first step, you must install MesaGL. You can get the source of MesaGL from here. To install it, 

> gunzip MesaLib-3_0_tar.gz
> tar -xvf MesaLib-3_0_tar
> cd Mesa-3.0
> make linux-386
.....

Serveral minutes later, you will have libMesaGL.a and LibMesaGLU.a in Mesa-3.0/lib and a directory called GL in Mesa-3.0/include. I usually prefer to copy all these files into ~/local/lib and ~/local/include such that I can access all the libraries without remembering tons of paths.

2. Install Fltk
Now, we try to make fltk. You can get the source from here. 

> gunzip fltk-1.1.4-source.tar.gz
> tar -xvf fltk-1.1.4-source.tar
> ./configure 
> make
 
Create a local directory in you home dir
Open makeinclude file and change the prefix variable to the your local
directory
 
> make install
> cp fltk-1.1.4/fluid/fluid ~/local/bin
> cp fltk-1.1.4/

That's it. You will have
'fluid' in ~/local/bin,
two directories, FL and Fl, in include
and libfltk.a in lib.

Now everyting is in ~/local, you need to change the value of the variable, $(LOCAL), in Makefile to ~/lcoal.