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| <p>These instructions explain how to compile VLFeat on your own. This |
| can be useful to customize or contribute to VLFeat, but it is |
| otherwise not necessary (<b>use the |
| <a href="%pathto:download;">binary package</a> instead</b>).</p> |
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| <p>For <b>UNIX</b> based platforms (Mac OS X and Linux), the library |
| bundles a GNU makefile (<code>Makefile</code>). The makefile |
| tries to auto-detect the environment and automatically configure |
| itself. In most cases, typing <code>make</code> is all it is required |
| to compile everything. If this does not work, please edit the |
| makefile and make the necessary adjustment to the flags.</p> |
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| <p>For <b>Windows</b>, the library bundles a NMake makefile |
| (<code>Makefile.mak</code>). In order to use it, you must open |
| Makefile.mak and adjust the values of configuration variables to match |
| your setup. Once you have done that, start the Visual Studio Command |
| Prompt and type <code>nmake /f Makefile.mak</code>.</p> |
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| <p><b>Note: For Windows you can also just compile the mex files.</b> Start with |
| our binary distribution.</p> |
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| <p><b>Windows: Troubleshooting common problems:</b></p> |
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| <dt>syntax error: '=' unexpected:</dt> |
| <dd><p>Use <code>nmake /f Makefile.mak</code>. |
| Without <code>/f</code>, nmake will default to the wrong |
| makefile.</p></dd> |
| <dt>'long' followed by 'long' is illegal:</dt> |
| <dd><p>This error is usually caused by |
| attempting to compile outside of the Visual Studio Command Prompt.</p></dd> |
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