Development

XuvTools includes all nonstandard thirdparty libraries that it relies on. It uses qmake for configuration, so you need a recent Qt library. Compiling Qt is described alongside the compilation notes for your platform. XuvTools compiles on many platforms and architectures, so you should expect it to “just work”. We have tested at least the following build systems: Linux Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy), MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) with XCode 3.2, and Windows XP Professional x64 with Visual Studio 2008 and the Intel Compiler. XuvTools can not (yet) be compiled with Visual Studio 2010, due to some problems with the Visual Studio 2010 compiler.

Start here:

• How to compile for Windows
• How to compile for Linux and Mac

• Developers ToDo List
• Developers Changelog
• Developers Testing protocol and results, for XuvTools releases
• Reference test data sets and scripts for testing XuvTools.
  • and the server side data set repository (Sample FileFormats, BugListData and more).
• Setting up a build system for XuvTools:
  • Installing Ubuntu chroot
  • Installing Windows Buildsystem

A scratch collection of long-term goals, sub-projects and targets for the XuvTools project are outlined below. This is not a fixed list, but rather a place to collect ideas for reference in the decision process.

• LibBlitzBioFormats: an OME-Loci based biofile reader library
• Improving Data Structures: rewriting the Data Structures in the stitcher
• 2D-Safety: Making XuvTools 2D-safe
• Interest Point Simplification: Compute all interest points in advance and store them

The following links are most likely useful to developers only, but are visible to everyone:

• Windows build systems and compilers
• The concept of logfile uploads and crash reports.
• XuvTools Coding Style Guidelines and Qt designer introduction.
• Sizes of data types on several platforms
• Format of project files and internal structure.
• About the XuvTools.org website
• A hands-on guide to subversion.
• Brushing up Trac (the issuetracking-system) can be done with the Firefox-Addon Greasemonkey and the following Greasemonkey scripts for Trac:
  • Lighthouse theme for Trac
  • trac new ticket template
  • Trac timeline improvements (reformats the date to ISO 8601)
• Recommended Development IDEs and setting them up
• Compilation the old way, without Cygwin script: compile for Windows without comfort
• Compilation the old way, without Shell script: compile for Linux and Mac without comfort

The following resources are ment for developers only. They can only be shared with non-developers upon request, and with explicit permission of the corresponding author. Please do not distribute them. No tools or resources in this section are required to compile or use XuvTools.

• Compilation Status and issues.
• Libraries XuvTools can make use of: Thirdparty licensing information.
• Information about the FTP configuration.
• user accounts and email addresses.
• Subversion mirror on xuvtools.org.