Leptonica & Visual Studio 2008

Building and Linking with liblept
using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

author:Tom Powers date:March 14, 2011

• Overview
• Quickstart
  • Getting liblept
  • Building “Hello, liblept”
• Downloading liblept pre-built binaries and header files for Windows
  • About version numbers in library filenames
• Building programs that link with liblept
  • Create a \tmp directory
  • Intellisense and liblept
• Directory organization
  • BuildFolder contents
  • BuildFolder\include contents
  • BuildFolder\include\leptonica contents
  • BuildFolder\lib contents
• The liblept Visual Studio 2008 Solution
  • leptonica.sln Solution Explorer contents
  • BuildFolder\leptonica-1.68 contents
  • Visual Studio 2008 Tab settings
• Building the prog directory programs
  • Building prog programs from the command line
  • Building prog programs using Visual Studio 2008
    • Set up the “template” ioformats_reg project
    • Using the Create Leptonica prog Project AddIn
    • The manual method for creating prog program projects
• Installing Cygwin coreutils
• Installing IrfanView to view images
• Installing gnuplot to view plots
• c# and liblept
• (Optional) Building zlib, libjpeg, libpng, libtiff and giflib
  • Image library links
  • Using the same runtime library
  • Download and extract the image libraries
  • Building zlib
  • Building libpng
  • Building libjpeg
  • Building libtiff
  • Building giflib
  • Re-adding GIF support to liblept
  • Statically linking with giflib
  • Build liblept
• (Optional) Building the liblept library
• Visual Studio 2010 Notes
• Package Contents
• Version Notes
  • 1.68 – March 14, 2011
  • 1.67 – November 10, 2010
  • 1.66 – August 9, 2010
  • 1.65 – April 07, 2010
  • 1.64 – Jan 05, 2010