conda recipes for installing Ctrax

This repo contains recipes for building Ctrax from source into a conda environment. At the moment, this only works on Linux. Also, no camera interfaces are compiled in.

Prerequisites: Install Miniconda and conda-build

# Install miniconda to the prefix of your choice, e.g. /my/miniconda

# LINUX:
wget https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
bash Miniconda-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh

# MAC:
wget https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh
bash Miniconda-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh

# Activate conda
CONDA_ROOT=`conda info --root`
source ${CONDA_ROOT}/bin/activate root

# Install conda-build
source activate root
conda install conda-build jinja2

Build ctrax from source

For maximum compatibility, we use conda's version of gcc for all c++ packages. For now, we have to use a special version of that package, obtained from ilastik's binstar channel.

# Make the ilastik channel available to our setup
# (Edits ~/.condarc)
conda config -f --add channels ilastik

Build everything:

cd ctrax-conda-recipes
conda build ctrax

Install your locally-built packages

# Create a fresh environment and install ctrax
conda create -n ctrax-env ctrax --use-local

Run Ctrax

source ${CONDA_ROOT}/bin/activate ctrax-env
Ctrax

Optional: Upload your packages to binstar

# First, install binstar if necessary
source ${CONDA_ROOT}/bin/activate root
conda install binstar

# Upload
binstar upload ${CONDA_ROOT}/conda-bld/linux-64/*.tar.bz2

Others can install Ctrax on their own machine using your binstar channel:

conda create -n ctrax-env -c your-channel ctrax

ctrax-conda-recipes

Commits

readme: Use ilastik channel for gcc package

ctrax: Use conda-provided version of gcc to build, since it contains C++ files.

readme: Added a comment about camera interfaces.

Initial commit. Basic recipes in place, but package versions not nailed down.

README