kdu_installable_template

Template for the Kakadu installable package for SecondLife/Firestorm/Alchemy...

Instructions

There is absolutely no instructions anywhere for building SecondLife / Firestorm / Alchemy with Kakadu, but I managed to do it. If you're interested, do as follow:

• Acquire a Kakadu license (can't help you with this, and won't share mine, it's private, please don't ask)
• Install the Visual Studio 2019 Build Tools and optionnaly Visual Studio itself (won't work with VS2022 build tools with current Kakadu version 8.4.1)
• Install Mingw64, make sure that you can create .tar.bz2 files.
• Extract Kakadu library somewhere
• In coresys directory you'll find a VS2019 solution and project
• Set coresys VS2019 project configuration to <ConfigurationType>StaticLibrary</ConfigurationType> instead of <ConfigurationType>DynamicLibrary</ConfigurationType>
• Set linker additional dependencies to: ..\srclib_ht\Win-x86-64\kdu_ht2019R.lib;%(AdditionalDependencies) for Release ..\srclib_ht\Win-x86-64\kdu_ht2019D.lib;%(AdditionalDependencies) for Debug (It is simpler to edit that in the project properties in Visual Studio, but that's optional)
• Prepare Kakadu sources for high speed Kakadu if your license allows it (see Enabling_HT.txt in Kakadu library)
• In VS 2019 build tools, cd to Kakadu coresys folder and type: msbuild.exe coresys_2019.sln -t:coresys -p:Configuration="Release" -p:Platform="x64" for Release, or msbuild.exe coresys_2019.sln -t:coresys -p:Configuration="Debug" -p:Platform="x64" for Debug
• You'll obtain a kdu_84R.lib or a kdu_84D.lib in coresys/../../bin_x64/
• Git clone this repository: https://github.com/AyaneStorm/kdu_installable_template
• In kdu-8.4.1-windows-233220159-template directory:
  • Copy and rename kdu_84R.lib to lib/Release/kdu_x64.lib
  • Copy and rename kdu_84D.lib to lib/Debug/kdu_x64.lib
  • Copy all the .h files of Kakadu into include/ (all, not only coresys headers)
  • Copy the Kakadu license into LICENSES/
• In Mingw64, type: cd kdu-8.4.1-windows-233220159-template/ && tar -cvjSf kdu-8.4.1-windows-233220159.tar.bz2 * mv kdu-8.4.1-windows-233220159.tar.bz2 ../ && cd .. && md5sum kdu-8.4.1-windows-233220159.tar.bz2
• You should obtain a kdu-8.4.1-windows-233220159.tar.bz2 file and its MD5 checksum (keep that checksum for later)
• Go to you my_autobuild.xml file, and look for the kdu key.
• The Windows related part should look like this (change paths where needed):

  <key>windows64</key>
  <map>
  <key>archive</key>
  <map>
      <key>hash</key>
      <string>the MD5 hash you obtained previously</string>
      <key>hash_algorithm</key>
      <string>md5</string>
      <key>url</key>
      <string>file:///C:/path/to/kakadu/kdu-8.4.1-windows-233220159.tar.bz2</string>
  </map>
  <key>name</key>
  <string>windows64</string>
  </map>
  

• Just reconfigure with --kdu and recompile.