AGAVE : Advanced GPU Accelerated Volume Explorer

Agave is a desktop application for viewing 16-bit unsigned multichannel ome-tiff and Zeiss .czi files.

The code is currently organized into two main sections:

1. agave_app is the Qt front end of the application
2. renderlib is the code responsible for dealing with volume images and rendering them

How to build from source:

After cloning this repo, initialize the submodules, which contain a couple of dependency libraries:

git submodule update --init

For WINDOWS: Make sure you are in an environment where vsvarsall has been run, e.g. a "VS2019 x64 Native Tools Command Prompt"

Install Qt LTS 5.15.2. In your favorite Python virtual environment:

pip install aqtinstall
aqt install --outputdir C:\Qt 5.15.2 windows desktop win64_msvc2019_64

Use vcpkg to install boost, tiff, glm. Make sure the vcpkg target triplet is x64-windows.

vcpkg install boost tiff glm --triplet x64-windows

mkdir build
cd build
# (vs 2019)
cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=D:\vcpkg\scripts\buildsystems\vcpkg.cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64 -DVCPKG_TARGET_TRIPLET=x64-windows ..
cmake --build .

For MAC OS: (using homebrew)

# Install Qt. In your favorite Python virtual environment:
pip install aqtinstall
aqt install --outputdir ~/Qt 5.15.2 mac desktop
export Qt_DIR=~/Qt/5.15.2/clang_64
# and then:
brew install boost glm libtiff

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
# after make, you should have a runnable agave.app
# or, to build a redistributable bundle:
sudo make install

For LINUX:

Install Qt 5.15.2 in your directory of choice and tell the build where to find it. In your favorite Python virtual environment:

pip install aqtinstall
aqt install --outputdir ~/Qt 5.15.2 linux desktop
# the next line is needed for CMake
export Qt_DIR=~/Qt/5.15.2/gcc_64

• sudo apt install libboost-all-dev
• sudo apt install libtiff-dev
• sudo apt install libglm-dev
• sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dev
• sudo apt install libegl1-mesa-dev

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Versioned Releases

Use tbump (https://github.com/dmerejkowsky/tbump). See the tbump.toml file which shows all the files that contain necessary version info.

Just run

tbump major.minor.patch --dry-run

and if everything looks ok

tbump major.minor.patch

or, to do the git steps manually:

tbump major.minor.patch --only-patch