Tutorial: Installation from prebuilt packages for iOS devices

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• ViSP framework for iOS
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In this tutorial you will learn how to install ViSP prebuilt framework for iOS devices.

Note

Concerning ViSP installation, we provide also other Tutorials for ViSP users.

ViSP framework for iOS

ViSP is available as a prebuilt framework for iOS devices. Go to ViSP download page and get "ViSP for iOS" as a zip archive. Since this package was build with OpenCV as 3rd party, the zip archive contains also OpenCV framework it was built with to ensure compatibility.

To install ViSP framework in a folder denoted <framework_dir>/ios that could be set to $HOME/framework/ios download "ViSP for iOS" with Safari or Firefox and do the following:

$ mkdir -p $HOME/framework/ios

If downloaded with Safari continue with:

$ mv $HOME/Downloads/visp3/* $HOME/framework/ios/

or if downloaded with Firefox, run:

$ unzip $HOME/Downloads/visp3.framework*.zip -d $HOME/framework/ios

The content of <framework_dir>/ios should be the following:

$ ls $HOME/framework/ios
opencv2.framework      visp3.framework

Note

ViSP framework is build with capabilities that enables the usage of the following 3rd parties: XML, OpenCV, pthread, apriltag, lapack.

Next tutorial

You are now ready to see the next Tutorial: How to create a basic iOS application that uses ViSP that will show you how to use ViSP as a 3rd party to build your own iOS application.