Table of Contents

• Build Instructions
  • Building for Ubuntu desktop
    • Minimum Requirements
    • Building the Repository
• Running the tests
• Creating a visual test

Build Instructions

Building for Ubuntu desktop

Requirements

• Ubuntu 20.04 or later
• GCC version 6
• OpenCV version 2.4.9 or above
• Xvfb
• Magick++
• Environment created using dali_env script in dali-core repository
• This environment should have the DALi libraries installed

DALi requires a compiler supporting C++11 features. Ubuntu 16.04 is the first version to offer this by default (GCC v5.4.0).

GCC version 6 is recommended since it has fixes for issues in version 5 e.g. it avoids spurious 'defined but not used' warnings in header files.

OpenCV version 2.4.9 is the default version installed in Ubuntu 16.04

Building the Repository

To build the repository:

     $ ./build.sh

For debug builds:

     $ ./build.sh --debug

Running the tests

To run all the tests:

     $ ./execute.sh

This will run each test on it's own X server.

Running individual tests

The tests are installed into dali-env, and can be run directly. In this case, the test is run on the desktop's X server.

Creating a visual test

• Make a directory in the "visual-tests" directory. Only one visual test will be created per directory.
• The executable installed will have a ".test" appended to it, e.g. a "my-first-visual-test" directory produces "my-first-visual-test.test".
• Add all source files for the required visual test in this directory.
• No changes are required to the make system as long as the above is followed, your visual test will be automatically built & installed.