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How to build and install Micro-Manager

Overview

Currently, Micro-Manager has two, more or less orthogonal, build systems: one for Unix (OS X and Linux), and one for Windows.

Building on Windows

The Windows build uses Microsoft Windows SDK 7.1 and Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Express for the C++ components, and Apache Ant for the Java components and for automating the entire build.

(Instructions are to be written here. For now, please refer to the wiki page).

Building on Unix

The Unix build uses the GNU Build System (aka Autotools, aka configure & make).

Note: The Unix build scripts were reworked in April, 2014, and some details have changed.

Getting the prerequisites

There are several packages that are required to build and/or run Micro-Manager. It is usually easiest to install these using the distribution's package manager (on Linux) or using Homebrew (on OS X).

On OS X, start by installing Xcode 5.x. After installing, make sure to open the Xcode app once and allow it to install the command line tools.

On Linux, ensure that you have gcc and g++ installed.

Packages required for building are:

  • autoconf
  • automake
  • libtool
  • pkg-config
  • swig

(On OS X, do not confuse Apple's /usr/bin/libtool with GNU Libtool. We need the latter. Homebrew installs GNU Libtool as glibtool.)

You will also need subversion to obtain Micro-Manager source code.

Required dependencies are:

  • Boost 1.46 or later

To build MMCoreJ and the Java application (Micro-Manager Studio), you will need a Java Development Kit. Micro-Manager Java code is written in Java 1.6. On OS X, either Apple's Java 1.6 or Oracle JDK 1.7 will work. On Linux, OpenJDK 1.6 or 1.7 should work well. (For JDK versions, 1.x is the same as x.)

Building the Java components also requires Apache Ant (pre-installed on OS X).

To build MMCorePy, you will need Python and Numpy. Recent versions of either Python 2 or Python 3 should work.

Many Linux distributions split library packages into runtimes and development files. If you are using such a distribution, make sure to get the packages with the -dev suffix.

Some device adapters require additional external libraries. (TODO Document these.)

Obtaining the source code

Please see the Micro-Manager website for instructions. You will need the main Micro-Manager source code and the 3rdpartypublic repository, side by side in the same parent directory.

Configuring

To build from an SVN working copy, you will first need to generate the configure script. This can be done with the command

./autogen.sh

Now, you will run ./configure. There are many ways to configure Micro-Manager, but you will most likely want to choose one of two major installation styles: a traditional Unix-style installation and installation as an ImageJ plugin.

The traditional Unix-style will put Micro-Manager libraries (including device adapters) into $prefix/lib/micro-manager and other files (including JARs) into $prefix/share/micro-manager ($prefix is /usr/local by default). If you build the Java application, a script will be installed at $prefix/bin/micromanager which can be used to start Micro-Manager, and Micro-Manager will run without the ImageJ toolbar.

If you want to install Micro-Manager as an ImageJ plugin, you will have to tell configure where to find the target ImageJ application directory. In this case, all Micro-Manager files will be installed inside that ImageJ directory.

To configure Micro-Manager for a traditional Unix-style install, type

./configure --prefix=/where/to/install

To configure for installation as an ImageJ plugin, type

./configure --enable-imagej-plugin=/path/to/ImageJ

The ImageJ path should be an existing (preferably fresh) copy of ImageJ 1.48.

To get more information about the possible options to configure, type

./configure --help

You can get help on the flags controlling device-adapter-specific dependency libraries by typing

./configure --help=recursive

Building and installing

Assuming configure succeeded, you can now run

make fetchdeps
make

to build.

To install, type

make install

When the installation is finished, a message will be printed telling you how to run Micro-Manager Studio (if it was configured to be built).

Common configuration issues

Failure to detect Java

If ./configure does not find your JDK (Java Development Kit), try the following.

  1. If the environment variable $JAVA_HOME is set, try unsetting it before running configure. It might be pointing to a Java installation that doesn't contain all the required files (e.g. it may be pointing to a JRE (Java Runtime Environment) rather than a JDK). Not setting JAVA_HOME may allow configure to autodetect a suitable Java home.

  2. Find the desirable JDK home on your system. This is a directory that usually has "jdk" and the Java version number (such as 1.6) in its name, and contains the directories bin (in which java, javac, and jar are found) and include (in which jni.h is found). Pass --with-java=/path/to/java/home to configure. For example:

     ./configure --with-java=/usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0
 # or, on OS X,
 ./configure --with-java=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0_55.jdk/Contents/Home

  3. On OS X, if you are using Apple's JDK 1.6, the previous step may not be sufficient, because the Java home directory (/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contenst/Home) does not contain jni.h and related headers. There are two solutions to this problem.

    The first is to download and install Apple's Java Development Package (you need an Apple Developer account to download it). This will place jni.h in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Headers, which should be automatically detected by ./configure.

    The second is to use the copy of jni.h and friends included with the OS X SDK. To do so, run:

     ./configure JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home JNI_CPPFLAGS="-I/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Headers"

    You may need to adjust the version of the platform SDK from 10.9 to one of the versions you have.

Specifying where to find external packages

As a general rule, the --with-foo flags to configure (e.g. --with-python=PREFIX) will try to autodetect the package, whereas the capitalized variables listed at the end of ./configure --help (e.g. PYTHON) will override any automatic detection and be used unmodified.

Failing to fetch on Ubuntu 18.04 and newer

If unresolved dependences on some Java libraries:

[ivy:resolve] ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
[ivy:resolve] :: UNRESOLVED DEPENDENCIES ::
[ivy:resolve] ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
[ivy:resolve] :: org.jogamp.gluegen#gluegen-rt-local;2.3.2: not found
[ivy:resolve] :: org.jogamp.gluegen#gluegen-rt-main-local;2.3.2: not found
[ivy:resolve] :: org.jogamp.gluegen#gluegen-rt-natives-macosx-universal;2.3.2: not found
[ivy:resolve] :: org.jogamp.gluegen#gluegen-rt-natives-windows-amd64;2.3.2: not found
[ivy:resolve] :: org.jogamp.gluegen#gluegen-rt-natives-windows-i586;2.3.2: not found
[ivy:resolve] :: org.jogamp.jogl#jogl-all-local;2.3.2: not found
[ivy:resolve] :: org.jogamp.jogl#jogl-all-main-local;2.3.2: not found
[ivy:resolve] :: org.jogamp.jogl#jogl-all-natives-macosx-universal;2.3.2: not found
[ivy:resolve] :: org.jogamp.jogl#jogl-all-natives-windows-amd64;2.3.2: not found
[ivy:resolve] :: org.jogamp.jogl#jogl-all-natives-windows-i586;2.3.2: not found
[ivy:resolve] :: #DT1.2;: not found
[ivy:resolve] ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Take a look at issue #708