Building instruction

MacOS

Prerequisites:

Installing Homebrew is encouraged, for instruction see Homebrew Home Page

• Install Xcode command line tool

• Install pkg-config

  brew install pkg-config
  

• Install required 3d party libraries library

  brew install boost flann pcl eigen
  

• Install librealsense sdk A realsense build is included in src/3rdParty/librealsense/macos

• Make sure that PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable is set correctly, example:

  pkg-config --cflags --libs flann
  

  or

  pkg-config --cflags --libs eigen3
  

  (brew package is called eigen but you must refer to it as eigen3)

  should print compiler include and library flags.

Configuration:

• Create a local pkgconfig dir (es in your home):

  mkdir ~/pkgconfig
  

• Copy src/3rdParty/pkgconfig/*.pc into your previously create dir

  cp src/3rdParty/pkgconfig/*.pc ~/pkgconfig/
  

• Update realsense2 and realsense2-debug repodir variable and set it where you have cloned the repository

  repodir=<path_to_tighty_repo>
  

• Eventually update the prefix variable in those file, for example if boost is installed in a different location change the prefix variable in boost.pc

• Add src/3rdparty/pkgconfig to PKG_CONFIG_PATH

  export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:~/pkgconfig
  

Running:

When you start Qt Creator you must make sure that it's run with the right PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable set otherwise you'll get errors like package [boost | realsense | etc..] not found. The best way is to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH in .bashrc ( or your shell startup script) and then open a terminal and invoke Qt Creator. There is an example script in src/3rdParty/tools, eventually copy it in your path and modify accordinglaly

cp src/3rdParty/tools/run_qt_creator ~/bin

modify variables in run_qt_creator and

chmod +x ~/bin/run_qt_creator
run_qt_creator