These instructions refer to very old versions of Micro-Manager source code.
This note was written using Revision: 2580 (https://valelab.ucsf.edu/trac/micromanager/timeline) that contained fixes to linux build by Nico and debian-specific scripts by Johan. Following notes are a log of things I needed to do for building the deb packages successfully and running micro-manager. Suggestions were provided by Martin and Johan. Search “non-hardware micro-manager setup on linux” thread in micro-manager-general list. These steps will be out-of-date sooner rather than later, but should provide an idea of overall process.
OS was Ubuntu jaunty.
–Shalin 12:44, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Pre-requisite packages
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ImageJ (either debian package or uncompress Tar.gz from ImageJ website in /usr/local/ImageJ/). The debs on launchpad are version 1.41n whereas you can get the latest from the ImageJ website. Micro-manager plugin requires ImageJ version 1.42n and above.
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sun-java6-jdk
-libtool
-libace-5.6.3
-libace-dev
-libswingx-java (ver. 0.9.2)
-libusb-0.1-4
-libusb-dev
-autoconf
-automake
-swig
-g++
-bsh
More or less packages may be required. Above was what I needed to install.
After all is setup, cd to directory of choice and get SVN copy of micro-manager
$ svn co https://valelab.ucsf.edu/svn/micromanager2/branches/micromanager1.3
I received Revision 2580.
Bootstrap the autobuild tools.
$./mmUnixBuild.sh
Configure and build
$./configure --with-imagej=/usr/local/ImageJ (Replace the path suitably)
$ make
Errors encountered during make:
1\. In USBManager.
** Warning: Linking the shared library libmmgr_dal_USBManager.la
against the ** static library /usr/lib/libusb.a is not portable!
libtool: link: g++ -shared -nostdlib
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.3/../../../../lib/crti.o
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.3/crtbeginS.o .libs/USBManager.o
../../MMDevice/.libs/libMMDevice.a /usr/lib/libusb.a
-L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.3
-L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.3/../../../../lib -L/lib/../lib
-L/usr/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.3/../../..
-lstdc++ -lm -lc -lgcc_s /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.3/crtendS.o
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.3/../../../../lib/crtn.o -Wl,-soname
-Wl,libmmgr_dal_USBManager.so.0 -o
.libs/libmmgr_dal_USBManager.so.0.0.0 /usr/bin/ld:
/usr/lib/libusb.a(usb.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against a local
symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with
-fPIC /usr/lib/libusb.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld
returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [libmmgr_dal_USBManager.la]
Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory
/home/sanguine/research/umanager/micromanager1.3/DeviceAdapters/USBManager’
make[1]: ** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/sanguine/research/umanager/micromanager1.3/DeviceAdapters’ make:
** [all-recursive] Error 1
Resolved by deleting references to `USBManager` in `DIST_SUBDIR`
variable inside `DeviceAdapters/Makefile`.
Compilation succeded!!
## If not making debian packages, do $make install and you should be fine. I haven't tried it yet.
## Making debian packages. The path I chose for easy management of files.
Modify newImageJ script inside portdebian directory.
ij_path=/usr/local/ImageJ
Substitute all references to `/usr/share/imagej` by `/usr/local/ImageJ`
Modify `debiancontrol.port` inside portdebian directory.
`Architecture: amd64` in `debiancontrol.port`.
Modify `mkdebian.sh` inside `portdebian`
Substitute all references to `/usr/share/imagej` by `/usr/local/ImageJ`
Include configuration, html, and xml acquisition samples inside the package.
##### Programs mkdir -p $ROOTBIN/usr/bin/ cp Test_Serial/mm_testserial ModuleTest/mm_moduletest Test_MMCore/mm_testCore $ROOTBIN/usr/bin/ strip $ROOTBIN/usr/bin/* ##### And configuration files cp bin/.cfg $ROOTBIN/usr/bin/ cp bin/.html $ROOTBIN/usr/bin/ cp bin/*.xml $ROOTBIN/usr/bin/
Then do `./portdebian/mkdebian.sh`
Got error: cp: cannot stat `Tracking/Tracker_.jar’: No such file or directory
Error resolved by
cd Tracking make
Somehow earlier `make` had missed it.
Two packages `micromanager.deb` and `micromanager-ij.deb` are created in
top directory of the source tree. Install them.
$ dpkg -i micromanager micromanager-ij ``` worked.
imagejmm script created by micromanager-ij works, however doesn’t
bring up micro-manager. You need to invoke it from
Plugins › Micro-manager › Micro-manager Studio.