ceres-script is a python script to build ceres solver, simple and easy to use, especially on Windows platform.
Building ceres solver on Windows platform is a very troublesome task, because it relies on third-party libraries such as glog, gflag, eigen, lapack, blas, suitesparse and so on. It may take several hours to download and configure these third-party libraries. The foundation of this project comes from the build script of colmap, which greatly reduces the difficulty of building on Windows platform. On the basis of the colmap build script, this project adds support for local glog, gflag, eigen, suitesparse and other third-party libraries. In other words, users can specify a local third-party library instead of a fixed version downloaded from the Internet. This will help the third-party library that ceres solver relies on to be consistent with the third-party library used locally by user.
- Install cmake, python 3.5+.
- Install Requests via pip($ python -m pip install requests).
- Run the following script from shell or cmd.
python D:\ThirdLibs\ceres-solver\build.py --build_path D:\ThirdLibs\ceres-solver\ceres-solver-build
--ceres_path D:\ThirdLibs\ceres-solver\ceres-solver --with_suite_sparse --no_ssl_verification
--cmake_generator "Visual Studio 15 2017"
Thanks to Johannes L. Schoenberger, the author of colmap, for providing such a great open source SfM-MVS library. The foundation of this project comes from the build script of colmap.
The ceres-script library is licensed under the new BSD license. Note that this text refers only to the license for ceres-script itself, independent of its dependencies, which are separately licensed. Building ceres-script with these dependencies may affect the resulting ceres-script license.
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Author: Johannes L. Schoenberger (jsch-at-demuc-dot-de), whuaegeansea@gmail.com