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auerswal / ssocr

Seven Segment Optical Character Recognition
https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~auerswal/ssocr/index.html
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Unclear homebrew installation instructions #9

Closed sgronblo closed 5 years ago

sgronblo commented 5 years ago

The ssocr web site at https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~auerswal/ssocr/ mentions that:

Mac OS X (using Homebrew to install Imlib2)

I found a package called imlib2 and installed it using homebrew. But it did not seem to add a binary called ssocr anywhere on my PATH.

sgronblo commented 5 years ago

On reading the site more closely I think I misunderstood. I guess these instructions are saying that you can build ssocr by yourself by installing imlib2 through homebrew?

auerswal commented 5 years ago

Yes, the Imlib2 library is needed to build ssocr. For macOS (I think that is the current name for Mac OS X), Imlib2 is available via Homebrew, I have been told (I do not have a Mac).

After installing Imlib2 on macOS, one can download the ssocr sources and build them. This requires a build environment including a C compiler on the Mac as well.

I have reworded the macOS part of the homepage:

Mac OS X (the required library Imlib2 can be installed via Homebrew)

I hope that helps. :-)

Thanks, Erik

sgronblo commented 5 years ago

Yeah, thanks. I was able to build it with no problem.