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#Horus development in Ubuntu

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If you are a developer and you want to modify the code, contribute, build packages, etc. you may follow this steps

1. Set up the environment

Tools

Atom IDE

Download open source Atom code editor.

Git version control

sudo apt-get install git gitk

Dependencies

Following dependencies are included in deb package, but if you want to install it manually, they are:

Python modules

sudo apt-get install python-serial python-opengl python-pyglet python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotlib
wxPython

For older ubuntu versions

sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8

For newer ubuntu versions

sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk3.0

Custom OpenCV

NOTE: first try to remove previous versions of opencv:

sudo apt-get remove python-opencv
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bqlabs/horus
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-opencv

AVRDUDE

sudo apt-get install avrdude  # include libftdi1

Video 4 Linux

sudo apt-get install v4l-utils

In order to generate Debian and Windows packages, some extra dependencies are needed

Packaging dependencies

sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config python-dev python-stdeb p7zip-full curl nsis

2. Download source code

All source code is available on GitHub. You can download main Horus project by doing:

Horus

git clone https://github.com/bq/horus.git

or

git clone [email protected]:bq/horus.git

Custom OpenCV

Several improvements and optimizations have been made in GNU/Linux version of OpenCV libraries. If you want to contribute to this custom version, you can download it from:

git clone https://github.com/bq/opencv.git

or

git clone [email protected]:bq/opencv.git

And build it your own: instructions

3. Execute source code

In the project directory, execute the command:

./horus

Unit testing

To run the tests install nose:

sudo -H pip install -U nose

And execute:

nosetests test

4. Build packages

Horus development comes with a script package.sh. This script generates a final release package. You should not need it during development, unless you are changing the release process. If you want to distribute your own version of Horus, then the package.sh script will allow you to do that.

Version

bash package.sh version  # Generate version file

GNU/Linux Ubuntu

bash package.sh debian     # Generate deb package
bash package.sh debian -s  # Generate sources
bash package.sh debian -i  # Install deb package
bash package.sh debian -u  # Upload to launchpad

Windows

bash package.sh win32        # Generate exe package
bash package.sh win32 /path  # Generate exe using /path for deps