ITK Release 4/Microscopy/File Formats/Bio-Formats
This page describes the process of building the ITK adaptors to the Bio-Format library.
Download JACE
Check out the Jace source code:
svn co -r 39 https://jace.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/jace/trunk /path/to/jace
Where
/path/to/jace
is the desired location of your Jace source code checkout.
The "-r 39" matters, since Jace revisions 40 and later may not work with bf-cpp. As of this writing, the most recent revision was 52, and it does not compile on some systems. We currently recommend revision 39.
Download Bio-Formats
Download the bio-formats code according to the instructions in
http://www.loci.wisc.edu/bio-formats/source-code
Essentially
git clone git://dev.loci.wisc.edu/bio-formats.git
Build Bio-Formats and Its C++ Bindings
go to the top directory of the bio-formats source tree and type
ant tools
then go to the directory "components/native/bf-cpp"
cd components/native/bf-cpp
and type
ant -Djace.home=/path/to/jace
where "/path/to/jace" is the path to the directory where you checked out the code of JACE.
This will produce C++ libraries that wrap the functionalities of the Bio-Formats Java library.