installation: investigate usage of pre-built PCL binaries

Applied-GeoSolutions / lidar2dems

Utilities using PDAL and PCL to create DTMs, DSMs, and CHMs from lidar data

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installation: investigate usage of pre-built PCL binaries #14

Closed matthewhanson closed 9 years ago

matthewhanson commented 9 years ago

PCL is available as pre-built binaries from an Ubuntu repository, however it caused issues with compiling PDAL. Compiling PCL manually is very time consuming, taking up the vast majority of installation time (on the order of hours).

Investigate, using the latest PDAL and installed PCL binaries, any problems with installation. If there's a work-around, or updated procedure, update the lidar2dems installation documentation.

matthewhanson commented 9 years ago

This is waiting on PDAL final release of v1.0, which hopefully will include improved installation procedures (such as being available on Ubuntu repository).

Otherwise, the solution here is to pre-build PDAL and PCL as debian packages, or we could use Docker or Vagrant.