[IPOL discuss] GSL for IPOL [Re: OpenCV and IPOL]

[Juan Cardelino]

I could help with te windows version.  ve compiled  italia a couple of
times .
El 26/08/2013 12:58, "Nicolas Limare" <nicolas.limare at cmla.ens-cachan.fr>
escribió:

> Hi,
>
> > in my opinion we should allow GSL [1], since it implements many of
> > the operations needed in image processing or CV programs
> > (eigensystems, minimization, wavelets, linear algebra, least-squares
> > fitting, splines, etc).
>
> I agree, GSL is useful and very stable. The only question was if it
> would be usable for people working on Windows. GSL is not written with
> windows compatibility in mind and the authors do not guarantee it is
> usable on this platform. There are many blogs and websites explaining
> how the compilation of GSL on Windows is possible, but they are always
> specific to a given version of GSL and I was wondering if we could
> rely on this information for the long term.
>
> Tristan did a detailed study of this matter, and if I remember
> correctly the conclusion was:
> * The standard C compiler on Windows, MSVC, can not compile the
>   official version of the GSL because of non-standard behaviour of
>   this compiler.
> * But some tools are available to convert the standard GSL headers to
>   MSVC-compatible headers; these tools are based on Perl.
> * So it is possible to compile, install and use GSL on Windows; but it
>   is definitely not for beginners.
> * It would be nice to provide a detailed compilation manual or a
>   precompiled binary version somewhere on ipol.im.
>
> So, if there is a consensus on it, I think we could allow GSL as an
> external library and mention it in the software guidelines. And if
> someone has the time to prepare a manual or a precompiled version,
> it's even better, but should not stop us from accepting GSL.
>
> --
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