CamlImages - Objective Caml image processing library

This library is reliable but still under development.

*** Requirements

 To install CamlImages library, you need the following softwares:

        * ocaml 3.08 or higher
        * GNU make
	* automake (1.7.9 does not work. 1.9.6 works)

and that is all. But note that this is the minimum requirement: you
can read/write BMP or PXM (PPM, PGM, PBM) image formats but no other
formats. If you want to deal with other image formats, you need to
install the corresponding external libraries:

        * libpng for PNG format
                http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
                http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/

        * libjpeg for JPEG format
                The Independent JPEG Group's software
                ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz

        * libtiff for TIFF format
                http://www.libtiff.org/
                ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/

        * libxpm for XPM format (could be already by the X server installation)
                X contrib libraries ftp directory
                ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries

        * freetype for drawing texts using truetype fonts
                The FREETYPE Project
                http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/

        * libungif for GIF format
                Because of the GIF patent problem of Unisys, we do not
                recommend to use GIF file format. If you really want to
                use GIF, do it in your own risk.

                Libungif, a library for using GIFs without compression.
                  http://sourceforge.net/projects/libungif/

        * ghostscript for PS format
                See http://www.ghostscript.com/

Additionaly, optional support for either lablgtk and lablgtk2 is provided, but
not both at once, as they use conflicting symbols:

        * lablgtk, an Objective Caml interface to gtk+
                http://wwwfun.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/soft/olabl/lablgtk.html

*** Installation procedure
 Generating build scripts
 ------------------------
  This is only needed if you're using CVS version directly.

  * make sure ocaml autoconf macros, available from bazar-ocaml/autoconf
   directory, are present in aclocal macro search path, by any of the following 
   solution:
   - export ACLOCAL='aclocal -I <directory>' before invoking autoreconf
   - set up a dirlist file in automake macro directory, as explained in aclocal
     documentation
  * run autoreconf --install

 Configuration
 -------------

  Just run the standard configure script:
        % ./configure

  If the script can't find some installed external libraries, this is probably
  because they are installed in locations not included in linker or
  preprocessor configuration. You'll have to passe proper flags while running
  configure script:
        %./configure CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib 
        %./configure CFLAGS=-I/sw/include LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib

  If problems persist, check config.log for failure details.
  
  The script allow some user configuration. Check help output for details:
        % ./configure --help

 Compilation
 -----------
 type

        % make

and wait.

 Test
 ----
  Before you actually install the library, you can check that it
really works, by running examples in the test directory. For the test
programs,

        % cd test
        % make
        % ./test
        % ./test.byt

(./test.byt is the bytecode executable and ./test the binary
executable).

 Installation
 ------------

  If there is no compilation error and the test works fine,
install the library,

        % make install

This installs all the required files into the $(LIBDIR) directory
specified in Makefile.config (usually /usr/local/lib/ocaml/camlimages
or /usr/lib/ocaml/camlimages).

  If you want to create a toplevel with camlimages, type in

        % make top

that creates a toplevel named "customtop". Then,

        % toplevel

executes customtop with the appropriate options.

 Example applications
 --------------------

  In the examples directory you can find several example applications
using Camlimages.

  Some of the programs use the lablgtk GUI (in particular liv and
gifanim): you cannot compile them if the lablgtk library has not
been installed.

  To compile the examples execute:

        % cd examples
        % make