Advanced Topics on CamiTK

Support Policy

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This document lists the toolchain and dependencies currently supported (and recommended) for building CamiTK 6.0.0 and CamiTK develop.

CamiTK develop continuous integration status

Supported Operating Systems

The CamiTK project team is currently using the following OS during continuous integration:

Debian testing

Debian 14 Forky

Debian is the base of many distributions.

Using Debian Testing allows the CamiTK team to make sure the most recent version of Linux packages are supported.

Creating your own specific application

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Creating your own CamiTK application is probably not what you want to do first. It is also not what you need to do either (at least in 95% of the use cases that we have seen so far in the projects that use CamiTK).

The already provided CamiTK imp application is highly customizable, features a lot of use cases that you will need to replicate (menu, history recording, preference settings, …), and can also be customizable thanks to the fact that all the viewers are in docks (that you can move or remove as you see fit).

Using OpenCV in a CamiTK extension project

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Although CamiTK Community Edition does not depends on OpenCV, if your extension requires OpenCV, this page presents the correct way of setting up, install and use OpenCV for a flawless integration.

Setup and install OpenCV

On Linux

On Ubuntu, Debian or derivatives, just install the dev package (typically using sudo apt install libopencv-dev).

For other Linux distribution, please check that a package is available. Otherwise just refer to the OpenCV documentation or get inspired by the windows setup below. As OpenCV is also using CMake, it is a easy step.

Deploy CamiTK with your extensions

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Once your extension has reached a stable state, the next step is often to give it to another user or developer so that it can test it. This is what we call “distribute and deploy your CamiTK extensions”.

The dependency chain might be quite fragile when it comes to C++ where there is not (yet) an official package manager, especially on Windows.

This page provides a recipe to easily get all you need to run CamiTK and your extensions (called mycep henceforward) on another computer (called the target computer henceforward) than the one you used to develop (called the developer computer henceforward).