Building and debugging Micro-Manager source code

General

• Micro-Manager Coding Style and Conventions

• Micro-Manager Source Code

• Using Netbeans - to compile and debug the Micro-Manager Java layer.
• Using Eclipse - to compile and debug the Micro-Manager Java layer.
• Using IntelliJ - to compile and debug the Micro-Manager Java layer

Windows

• Building MM on Windows
• Visual Studio project settings for device adapters
• Viewing crash dumps on Windows - For C++ programmers, when all else fails

Mac OS X and Linux

• Configuration options - Build options on Mac OS X and Linux
• Debugging MM on MacOSX and Unix - Using gdb or Netbeans to debug the Micro-Manager C++ core

Mac OS X

• Official build instructions are in doc/how-to-build.md in the source repository
• Build on MacOS X
• Building Boost on MacOS X (obsolete)
• Full Build on MacOS X Leopard - How to install and build Micromanager 1.2 and dependencies (tested on MacOS X 10.5.2) (obsolete)
• Building Universal Binaries on Mac OS X (obsolete)

Linux

• Official build instructions are in doc/how-to-build.md in the source repository
• ArchLinux AUR package and build script.
• How To Build Micro Manager From Source On Ubuntu 13.10
• Linux installation from source (Ubuntu)
• Linux installation from source (Gentoo)
• Building Firewire camera support on Linux (obsolete)
• Compiling MM and creating deb files on 64-bit Ubuntu (obsolete)

The following DeviceAdapters require dependencies to run on GNU/Linux, some of which are packaged:

DeviceAdapter	Dependency	License	Community Package?	Downloadable?
Andor	Andor SDK 2	? (binary library), GPL-3 (PCI driver)	Shell script	Registration required
AndorSDK3	Andor SDK 3	? (binary library), ? (modified BitFlow library)	Shell script	Registration required
dc1394	libdc1394	LGPL-2.1	Yes	Yes
GPhoto	gphoto2	GPL-2	Yes	Yes
IDS_uEye	IDS 4.30	?	.run installer	Registration required
OpenCVgrabber	opencv	BSD	Yes	Yes
PrincetonInstruments	libvpcam-2.7.4.2	? (binary library)	Shell script	Yes
PVCAM	libpvcam-2.7.0.0	? (binary library), GPL-2 (USB-2 driver), GPL-2 (PCI driver)	Yes (USB), Shell script (PCI)	Yes
RaptorEPIX	? (XCLIB or XCAP)	? (XCLIB "requires ID code")	.bin installer	Yes
SpotCamera	SPOT SDK	?	?	By request
TISCam	uvc Kernel driver (USB) aravis (Gig-E)	GPL-2 LGPL-2.1	N/A Yes	N/A Yes
Video4Linux	v4l2 Kernel driver	GPL-2	N/A	N/A
ITC18	ITC Driver	?	?	By request
K8055	libk8055	GPL-2	Source tarball only	Not officially supported?
MCCDAQ	Unofficial PCI and USB HID, Official DAQFlex USB driver	GPL-2 (Unofficial), DAQFlex EULA (Official)	Source tarball (Unofficial), Source tarball (Official)	Yes (Unofficial), Yes (Official)
MaestroServo	UscCmd	?	Commandline utility	Yes

Miscellaneous

• Free third-party tools for testing communications with hardware