Building the Software Distribution


This chapter contains step-by-step instructions on how to configure and build the TIFF software distribution. The software is most easily built on a UNIX system, but with a little bit of work it can easily be built and used on other non-UNIX platforms.

Building on a UNIX System

 To build the software on a UNIX system you need to first run the configure shell script that is located in the top level of the source directory. This script probes the target system for necessary tools and functions and constructs a build environment in which the software may be compiled. Once configuration is done, you simply run make to build the software and then make install to do the installation; for example: In general, the software is designed such that the following should be ``make-able'' in each directory: Note that after running "make clobber" or "make distclean" the configure script must be run again to create the Makefiles and other make-related files.

Build Trees

 There are two schemes for configuring and building the software. If you intend to build the software for only one target system, you can configure the software so that it is built in the same directories as the source code.

Otherwise, you can configure a build tree that is parallel to the source tree hierarchy but which contains only configured files and files created during the build procedure.

This second scheme is useful for:

Configuration Files

 The configuration process is critical to the proper compilation, installation, and operation of the software. The configure script runs a series of tests to decide whether or not the target system supports required functionality and, if it does not, whether it can emulate or workaround the missing functions. This procedure is fairly complicated and, due to the nonstandard nature of most UNIX systems, prone to error. The first time that you configure the software for use you should check the output from the configure script and look for anything that does not make sense for your system. A sample configure run is shown below together with an explanation of some of the work that is done.

A second function of the configure script is to set the default configuration parameters for the software. Of particular note are the directories where the software is to be installed. By default the software is installed in the /usr/local hierarchy. To change this behaviour the appropriate parameters can be specified either:

configure reads any site-wide configure file first, and then any target-specific configuration file. This permits target-specific definitions to override site-wide definitions.

Site-wide configuration files are named config.site and are automatically searched for first in any directory specified on the command line to configure (using the -site option), or if that fails, in the directory in in which the configure script is located.

Target-specific configuration files are named config.local and are looked for first in the top-level configuration directory, or, if that fails, in the directory in which the configure script is located.

Configuration files are just shell scripts that define shell variables that control the configuration process. For example, the following file might be used on a BSDI system to configure the software for installation in the /usr/contrib area. 

#
# Parameters suitable for BSDI 1.1
#
DIR_BIN="/usr/contrib/bin"		# directory for client apps
DIR_LIB="/usr/contrib/lib"		# directory for libraries
DIR_MAN="/usr/contrib/man"		# directory for manual pages

For a complete list of the possible configuration parameters look at the sample config.site file provided in the distribution; the section below describes some of the more important parameters.

Configuring Optional Packages/Support

The TIFF software comes with several packages that are installed only as needed, or only if specifically configured at the time the configure script is run. Packages can be configured in a config.site or config.local file, or by using a -with-<PACKAGE> option when invoking configure; e.g. configure -with-AFM.
DSO Support
The DSO support controls whether or not to configure the software to build a Dynamic Shared Object for the TIFF library. Use of DSOs can significantly reduce the disk space needed for users of the TIFF software. If DSOs are not used then the code is statically linked into each application that uses it. By default this support is configured only if the system appears to suport DSOs in a way that fits into the normal build scheme (auto). If DSO support is explicitly enabled and there is no support for using DSOs in the expected way then DSOs are not used.

JPEG Support
The JPEG package enables support for the handling of TIFF images with JPEG-encoded data. Support for JPEG-encoded data requires the Independent JPEG Group (IJG) libjpeg distribution; this software is available at ftp.uu.net:/graphics/jpeg/. If JPEG support is enabled the DIRS_LIBINC and DIR_JPEGLIB parameters should also be set (see below). By default JPEG support is not configured.

ZIP Support
The ZIP support enables support for the handling of TIFF images with deflate-encoded data. Support for deflate-encoded data requires the freely available zlib distribution written by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler; this software is available at ftp.uu.net:/pub/archiving/zip/zlib/ (or try quest.jpl.nasa.gov:/beta/zlib/). If ZIP support is enabled the DIRS_LIBINC and DIR_GZLIB parameters should also be set (see below). By default this package is not configured.

A Sample Configuration Session

 This section shows a sample configuration session and describes the work done. The session is shown indented in a fixed width font with user-supplied input in a bold font. Comments are shown in a normal or italic font. This session was collected on a 486 machine running BSDI 1.1. A build tree separate from the source tree is used here. In fact, in this case the distribution is accessed from a read-only NFS-mounted filesystem. Note that configure announces the distribution version and the deduced target configuration (i386-unknown-bsdi1.1 here). configure checked the normal shell search path for potential ANSI C compilers. The compiler is selected according to it properly compiling a small ANSI C test program. A specific compiler may be requested by setting the CC environment variable to the appropriate pathname, by supplying the parameter on the command line, e.g. -with-CC=gcc, or by setting CC in a configuration file.

Note that an ANSI C compiler is required to build the software. If a C compiler requires options to enable ANSI C compilation, they can be specified with the ENVOPTS parameter.

Once a compiler is selected configure checks to see if the compiler accepts a -g option to enable the generation of debugging symbols, and if the compiler includes an ANSI C preprocessor.

Next various system-specific libraries that may or may not be needed are checked for (none are needed in this case). If your system requires a library that is not automatically included it can be specified by setting the MACHDEPLIBS parameter.

Creating port.h. The port.h file is included by all the C code in the library (but not the tools). It includes definitions for functions and type definitions that are missing from system include files, #defines to enable or disable system-specific functionality, and other odds and ends.

This file can take a long time to create so configure generates the file only when it is needed, either because the file does not exist or because a different target or compiler is to be used. Note that running "make distclean" in the top-level directory of the build tree will remove the port.h file (along with all the other files generated by configure).

Selecting emulated library functions. Certain library functions used by the tools are not present on all systems and can be emulated using other system functionality. configure checks for the presence of such functions and if they are missing, will configure emulation code from the port directory to use instead. Building the TIFF software on unsupported systems may require adding to the code to the port directory.

If a routine must be emulated and configure does not automatically check for it, the routine name can be specified using the PORTFUNCS parameter. To add emulation support for a new function foo, create a file port/foo.c that contains the emulation code and then set PORTFUNCS=foo in a configuration file or modify the configure script to automatically check for the missing function. If the DSO package is enabled (DSO=auto or DSO=yes), then configure will verify the system and compiler are capable of constructing SVR4-style DSO's in the expected way. Note that while a system may support DSO's the compiler may not be capable of generating the required position-independent code and/or the compiler may not pass the needed options through to the loader.

Selecting utility programs. configure locates various system utility programs that are used during installation of the software.

Selecting default configuration parameters. The remainder of the work done by configure involves setting up configuration parameters that control the placement and setup of files during the installation procedure.

At this point you can interactively modify any of the displayed parameters. Hitting a carriage return or typing yes will accept the current parameters. Typing one of the number displayed along the left hand side causes configure to prompt for a new value of the specified parameter. Typing anything else causes configure to prompt for a new value for each parameter. In general hitting carriage return will accept the current value and typing anything that is unacceptable will cause a help message to be displayed. A description of each of the configuration parameters is given below.

Once acceptable parameters are setup configure will generate all the files that depend on these parameters. Note that certain files may or may not be created based on the configuration of optional packages and/or the functions supported by target system.

Shared Library Support

 It is desirable to make the TIFF library be a shared object on systems that have support for shared libraries. Unfortunately the rules to use to build a shared library vary between operating systems and even compilers. The distributed software includes support for building a shared version of the library on a number of different systems. This support is split between rules in the file libtiff/Makefile.in that construct the shared library and checks done by the configure script to verify that the expected rules are supported by compilation tools for the target system.

To add new support for building a shared library both these files must be updated. In the configure script search for the section where the autoconfiguration setting of the DSO parameter is handled and add a new case for the target system that sets the DSOSUF, DSOLD, DSOOPTS, and LIBCOPTS options as appropriate for the system. DSOSUF specifies the filename suffix used for the shared library (e.g. ``.so'' for Dynamic Shared Objects on most SVR4-based systems). DSOLD specifies the program to use to build the shared library from a compiled object file; typically ``${LD}'' though on some systems it is better to use the C compiler directly so system-dependent options and libraries are automatically supplied. DSOOPTS are options that must be specified to DSOLD when building the shared library. LIBCOPTS are options to pass to the C compiler when constructing a relocatable object file to include in a shared library; e.g. ``-K PIC'' on a Sun system. The DSO parameter must also be set to a unique label that identifies the target system and compilation tools. This label is used to select a target in libtiff/Makefile.in to do the actual work in building the shared library. Finally, to complete support for the shared library added the appropriate rules to libtiff/Makefile.in under the target specified in the configure script.

Configuration Parameters

This section gives a brief description of the less obvious configuration parameters. Consult the distributed config.site for a complete list of parameters. The list here is sorted alphabetically.

AROPTS The options passed to ar when creating an archive. Note that configure will automatically check to see if ar supports an s to create a symbol table instead of using ranlib.
DIR_BIN The directory where client applications should be installed; by default this is /usr/local/bin.
DIR_GZLIB The pathname of the directory containing the zlib library (when ZIP or PixarLog compression support is enabled); e.g. ``../src/zlib''.
DIR_JPEGLIB The pathname of the directory containing the JPEG library (when JPEG support is enabled); e.g. ``/usr/local/lib''.
DIR_LIB The directory to install libraries and DSO's; by default this is /usr/local/lib.
DIR_MAN The top-most directory of the manual area where manual pages should be installed.
DIRS_LIBINC A space-separated list of directories in which to search for include files when building the library and tools. If JPEG or ZIP support is configured this parameter should include the directories where the associated include files are located.
DIST_ALPHA The alpha version number for the distribution; e.g. if this is version 3.4beta031 then the the major number is 31.
DIST_MAJOR The major version number for the distribution; e.g. if this is version 3.4beta031 then the the major number is 3.
DIST_MINOR The minor version number for the distribution; e.g. if this is version 3.4beta031 then the the major number is 4.
DSOSUF When DSO's are built, the filename suffix for a DSO. If this is set to "a" then statically linked archives are used.
DSOSUF_VERSION When DSO's are built, a version-specific filename suffix for a DSO. If this is set to something other than the value of DSO then the file libtiff.DSOSUF_VERSION will be installed and a link to it named libtiff.DSOSUF will automatically be created. (Note that this means that rule for building the target DSO must generate a file named libtiff.DSOSUF_VERSION.)
ENVOPTS Options to pass to CC to force ANSI C compilation.
FILLORDER The order of bits in a byte on the server machine; either LSB2MSB or MSB2LSB. This is normally selected according to the target system.
GCOPTS Special options to pass the C compiler. If this parameter is set, then configure may append other options to this list.
INSTALL The pathname of the install program to use. Note that this program must emulate the command line interface used by the IRIX install program.
LIBPORT The pathname of the library that holds code to emulate missing system functionality. Normally this parameter is set by configure based on whether or not emulation code is required for the target.
LLDOPTS Extra command line options passed to CC when linking an executable. This option is usually set only when DSO support is enabled (to force the executable to search for the TIFF DSO in non-standard locations in the filesystem.)
MACHDEPLIBS Target-dependent libraries that should be used when linking tools. Note that if this parameter is specified configure will append to the list of libraries.
MANSCHEME The scheme to use when preparing and installing manual pages. Schemes are constructed according to:
    <organization>-<formatting>-<compression>[-<suffix>]
where: <organization> is either bsd for BSD-style section organization (e.g. file formats in section 5) or sysv for System V-style organization (e.g. file formats in section 4). <formatting> is either nroff to force installation of formatted materials (using nroff) or source to get the nroff source installed. <compression> is either the name of a program to compress the manual pages (gipz, compress, pack) or cat for uncompressed data. <suffix> is either the file suffix to convert installed pages to (e.g. 0.gz for gzip-compressed pages under BSD) or strip to force the normal ".4f" suffix to be converted to ".4" (or ".5" if using the BSD organization). If no -<suffix> is specified then filenames are not converted when they are installed.
PORTFUNCS A list of non-standard functions that should be emulated. Normally this list is constructed by configure based on checks it does. If this parameter is set, configure will append to the specified list.
SETMAKE If make does not automatically set $MAKE to the name of the make program to invoke for subdirectories, then configure will create an explicit definition. If this parameter is set, then it will be used instead. by default bin is used.

Building the Software under Windows 95/98/NT/2000 with MS VC++

With Microsoft Visual C++ installed, and properly configured for commandline use (you will likely need to source VCVARS32.BAT in AUTOEXEC.bAT or somewhere similar) you should be able to use the provided makefile.vc.

C:\LIBTIFF\LIBTIFF> nmake /f makefile.vc
C:\LIBTIFF\LIBTIFF> cd ..\tools
C:\LIBTIFF\TOOLS> nmake /f makefile.vc
This will build the library file LIBTIFF\LIBTIFF\LIBTIFF.LIB. This can be used in Win32 programs. If used in a project using the /MD compiler switch (using the runtime C library), it may be necessary to modify the CFLAGS macro in makefile.vc to correspond.

The makefile also builds a DLL (libtiff.dll) with an associated import library (libtiff_i.lib). Any builds using libtiff will need to include the LIBTIFF\LIBTIFF directory in the include path.

The libtiff\tools\makefile.vc should build .exe's for all the standard TIFF tool programs.

NOTE: The contents of the contrib/win32 directory should no longer be needed, and are kept in the distribution temporarily.

Building the Software under MS/DOS with the DJGPP v2 compiler

[From the file contrib/dosdjgpp/README.]

The directory contrib/dosdjgpp contains the files necessary to build the library and tools with the DJGPP v2 compiler under MSDOS.

All you have to do is copy the files in the directory into the respective directories and run make. If you want, you can use the conf.bat script to do that for you, make sure that the file is stored with MSDOS text EOL-convention (CR/LF), otherwise the command.com will not do anything.

Note that you probably will not be able to build the library with the v1.x versions of djgpp, due to two problems. First, the top makefile calls a sub-make for each directory and you are likely to run out of memory, since each recursive invocation of a djgpp v1.x program requires about 130k, to avoid that, you can enter the directories manually and call make (well, there are only two dirs). The 2nd problem is that djgpp 1.x doesn't call the coff2exe (stubify) program when creating an executable. This means that all programs compiled are not converted to exe and consequently are not available for calling directly. For the tools directory, you can just call coff2exe for each program after make finishes, but in the libtiff directory, a few programs are created during the make process that have to be called for make to continue (e.g. mkg3states). Make will probably report an error at each such stage. To fix that, either add a coff2exe call before each program is called or call coff2exe manually and rerun make (there 2-3 such programs).

Building the Software on a Macintosh with MPW

The directory contrib/mac-mpw contains support for compiling the library and tools under the MPW Shell on a Macintosh system. This support was contributed by Niles Ritter ([email protected]).

[From the file contrib/mac-mpw/README.]

This directory contains all of the utilities and makefile source to build the LIBTIFF library and tools from the MPW Shell. The file BUILD.mpw in this directory is an executable script which uses all of these files to create the MPW makefiles and run them.

The .make files are not MPW makefiles as such, but are when run through the "mactrans" program, which turns the ascii "%nn" metacharacters into the standard weird MPW make characters.

This translation trick is necessary to protect the files when they are put into unix tarfiles, which tend to mangle the special characters.

Building the Software on a Macintosh with CodeWarrior

The directory contrib/mac-cw contains support for compiling the library and tools with MetroWerks CodeWarrior 6.1 on a Macintosh system. This support was contributed by Niles Ritter ([email protected]).

[From the file contrib/mac-cw/README.] In this directory you will find a Makefile.script Applescript file, which should be run in order to build the libtiff code using MetroWerks CodeWarrior. Refer to the "metrowerks.note" instructions on building the library for 68k and PowerPC native code, as well as building some of the libtiff tools, which are rather unix-like, but at least give an example of how to link everything together.

Building the Software on a VMS System

The VMS port was done by Karsten Spang ([email protected]), who also "sort of" maintains it. The VMS specific files are not in the main directories. Instead they are placed under [.CONTRIB.VMS...] in the distribution tree. Installation: It is assumed that you have unpacked the tar file into a VMS directory tree, in this text called DISK:[TIFF].
  1. Move the VMS specific files to their proper directories. 
    $ SET DEFAULT DISK:[TIFF.CONTRIB.VMS]
$ RENAME [.LIBTIFF]*.* [-.-.LIBTIFF]
$ RENAME [.TOOLS]*.* [-.-.TOOLS]
  2. Compile the library. 
    $ SET DEFAULT DISK:[TIFF.LIBTIFF]
$ @MAKEVMS
  3. Compile the tools. 
    $ SET DEFAULT DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]
$ @MAKEVMS
  4. Define the programs. 
    $ DEFINE TIFFSHR DISK:[TIFF.LIBTIFF]TIFFSHR
$ FAX2PS    :==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]FAX2PS
$ FAX2TIFF  :==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]FAX2TIFF
$ GIF2TIFF  :==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]GIF2TIFF
$ PAL2RGB   :==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]PAL2RGB
$ PPM2TIFF  :==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]PPM2TIFF
$ RAS2TIFF  :==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]RAS2TIFF
$ RGB2YCBCR :==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]RGB2YCBCR
$ THUMBNAIL :==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]THUMBNAIL
$ TIFF2BW   :==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]TIFF2BW
$ TIFF2PS   :==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]TIFF2PS
$ TIFFCMP   :==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]TIFFCMP
$ TIFFCP    :==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]TIFFCP
$ TIFFDITHER:==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]TIFFDITHER
$ TIFFDUMP  :==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]TIFFDUMP
$ TIFFINFO  :==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]TIFFINFO
$ TIFFMEDIAN:==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]TIFFMEDIAN
$ TIFFSPLIT :==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]TIFFSPLIT
$ YCBCR     :==$DISK:[TIFF.TOOLS]YCBCR
You will want to add these lines to your LOGIN.COM file, after changing the name of the directory that you have used on your machine.

This release has been tested on OpenVMS/VAX 5.5-2, using VAX C 3.2. A previous release was tested under OpenVMS/AXP ?.? using DEC C ?.?, it is believed that this release as well works on AXP. The code contains some GNU C specific things. This does *not* imply, however, that the VAX/GCC configuration has been tested, *it has not*.

The command procedures (MAKEVMS.COM) for building the library and tools, is believed to choose the correct options for the VAX and AXP cases automatically.

On the AXP, IEEE floating point is used by default. If you want VAX floating point, remove the /FLOAT=IEEE_FLOAT qualifier, and change HAVE_IEEEFP=1 to HAVE_IEEEFP=0 in the MAKEVMS.COM files in both the libtiff and tools directories.

Compiling your own program on a VMS system:

When compiling a source file in which you "#include ", use the following command 
    $ CC/INCLUDE=DISK:[TIFF.LIBTIFF]
This ensures that the header file is found. On the AXP, also add /FLOAT=IEEE_FLOAT (if used when building the library).

Linking your own program to the TIFF library on a VMS system:

You can link to the library in two ways: Either using the shareable library, or using the object library. On the VAX these possibilities are:
  1. Using the shareable TIFF library. 
    $ LINK MY_PROGRAM,DISK:[TIFF.LIBTIFF]TIFF/OPTIONS,SYS$INPUT:/OPTIONS
    SYS$SHARE:VAXCRTL/SHAREABLE
  2. Using the TIFF object library. 
    $ LINK MY_PROGRAM, -
    DISK:[TIFF.LIBTIFF]TIFF/LIBRARY/INCLUDE=(TIF_FAX3SM,TIF_CODEC), -
    SYS$INPUT:/OPTIONS
    SYS$SHARE:VAXCRTL/SHAREABLE
On AXP (and possibly also using DEC C on VAX) the corresponding commands are
  1. Using the shareable TIFF library. 
    $ LINK MY_PROGRAM,DISK:[TIFF.LIBTIFF]TIFF/OPTIONS
  2. Using the TIFF object library. 
    $ LINK MY_PROGRAM,DISK:[TIFF.LIBTIFF]TIFF/LIBRARY
Method 1 uses the shortest link time and smallest .EXE files, but it requires that TIFFSHR is defined as above at link time and at run time. Using the compilation procedure above, the tools are linked in this way.

Method 2 gives somewhat longer link time and larger .EXE files, but does not require TIFFSHR to be defined. This method is recommended if you want to run your program on another machine, and for some reason don't want to have the library on that machine. If you plan to have more than one program (including the tools) on the machine, it is recommended that you copy the library to the other machine and use method 1.

Building the Software on an Acorn RISC OS system

The directory contrib/acorn contains support for compiling the library under Acorn C/C++ under Acorn's RISC OS 3.10 or above. Subsequent pathnames will use the Acorn format: The full-stop or period character is a pathname delimeter, and the slash character is not interpreted; the reverse position from Unix. Thus "libtiff/tif_acorn.c" becomes "libtiff.tif_acorn/c".

This support was contributed by Peter Greenham. ([email protected]).

Installing LibTIFF:

LIBTIFF uses several files which have names longer than the normal RISC OS maximum of ten characters. This complicates matters. Maybe one day Acorn will address the problem and implement long filenames properly. Until then this gets messy, especially as I'm trying to do this with obeyfiles and not have to include binaries in this distribution.

First of all, ensure you have Truncate configured on (type *Configure Truncate On)

Although it is, of course, preferable to have long filenames, LIBTIFF can be installed with short filenames, and it will compile and link without problems. However, getting it there is more problematic. contrib.acorn.install is an installation obeyfile which will create a normal Acorn-style library from the source (ie: with c, h and o folders etc.), but needs the distribution library to have been unpacked into a location which is capable of supporting long filenames, even if only temporarily.

My recommendation, until Acorn address this problem properly, is to use Jason Tribbeck's LongFilenames, or any other working system that gives you long filenames, like a nearby NFS server for instance.

If you are using Longfilenames, even if only temporarily to install LIBTIFF, unpack the TAR into a RAMDisc which has been longfilenamed (ie: *addlongfs ram) and then install from there to the hard disk. Unfortunately Longfilenames seems a bit unhappy about copying a bunch of long-named files across the same filing system, but is happy going between systems. You'll need to create a ramdisk of about 2Mb.

Now you can run the installation script I've supplied (in contrib.acorn), which will automate the process of installing LIBTIFF as an Acorn-style library. The syntax is as follows:

install <source_dir> <dest_dir>

Install will then create <dest_dir> and put the library in there. For example, having used LongFilenames on the RAMDisk and unpacked the library into there, you can then type:

Obey RAM::RamDisc0.$.contrib.acorn.install RAM::RamDisc0.$ ADFS::4.$.LIBTIFF

It doesn't matter if the destination location can cope with long filenames or not. The filenames will be truncated if necessary (*Configure Truncate On if you get errors) and all will be well.

Compiling LibTIFF:

Once the LibTIFF folder has been created and the files put inside, making the library should be just a matter of running 'SetVars' to set the appropriate system variables, then running 'Makefile'.

OSLib

OSLib is a comprehensive API for RISC OS machines, written by Jonathan Coxhead of Acorn Computers (although OSLib is not an official Acorn product). Using the OSLib SWI veneers produces code which is more compact and more efficient than code written using _kernel_swi or _swi. The Acorn port of LibTIFF can take advantage of this if present. Edit the Makefile and go to the Static dependencies section. The first entry is: 

# Static dependencies:
@.o.tif_acorn:   @.c.tif_acorn
	cc $(ccflags) -o @.o.tif_acorn @.c.tif_acorn

Change the cc line to: 

	cc $(ccflags) -DINCLUDE_OSLIB -o @.o.tif_acorn @.c.tif_acorn

Remember, however, that OSLib is only recommended for efficiency's sake. It is not required.

Building the Software on Other Systems

This section contains information that might be useful if you are working on a non-UNIX system that is not directly supported. All library-related files described below are located in the libtiff directory.

The library requires two files that are generated on-the-fly. The file tif_fax3sm.c has the state tables for the Group 3 and Group 4 decoders. This file is generated by the mkg3states program on a UNIX system; for example,

The -c option can be used to control whether or not the resutling tables are generated with a const declaration. The -s option can be used to specify a C storage class for the table declarations. The -b option can be used to force data values to be explicitly bracketed with ``{}'' (apparently needed for some MS-Windows compilers); otherwise the structures are emitted in as compact a format as possible. Consult the source code for this program if you have questions.

The second file required to build the library, version.h, contains the version information returned by the TIFFGetVersion routine. This file is built on most systems using the mkversion program and the contents of the VERSION and tiff.alpha files; for example,

Otherwise, when building the library on a non-UNIX system be sure to consult the files tiffcomp.h and tiffconf.h. The former contains system compatibility definitions while the latter is provided so that the software configuration can be controlled on systems that do not support the make facility for building the software.

Systems without a 32-bit compiler may not be able to handle some of the codecs in the library; especially the Group 3 and 4 decoder. If you encounter problems try disabling support for a particular codec; consult the documentation.

Programs in the tools directory are written to assume an ANSI C compilation environment. There may be a few POSIX'isms as well. The code in the port directory is provided to emulate routines that may be missing on some systems. On UNIX systems the configure script automatically figures out which routines are not present on a system and enables the use of the equivalent emulation routines from the port directory. It may be necessary to manually do this work on a non-UNIX system.

Checking out the Software

Assuming you have working versions of tiffgt and tiffsv, you can just use them to view any of the sample images available for testing (see the section on obtaining the test images). Otherwise, you can do a cursory check of the library with the tiffcp and tiffcmp programs. For example,

(tiffcmp should be silent if the files compare correctly).

Table of Contents

The following files makup the core library: 
libtiff/tiff.h			TIFF spec definitions
libtiff/tiffcomp.h		non-UNIX OS-compatibility definitions
libtiff/tiffconf.h		non-UNIX configuration definitions
libtiff/tiffio.h		public TIFF library definitions
libtiff/tiffiop.h		private TIFF library definitions
libtiff/t4.h			CCITT Group 3/4 code tables+definitions
libtiff/tif_dir.h		private defs for TIFF directory handling
libtiff/tif_fax3.h		CCITT Group 3/4-related definitions
libtiff/tif_predict.h		private defs for Predictor tag support
libtiff/uvcode.h		LogL/LogLuv codec-specific definitions
libtiff/version.h		version string (generated by Makefile)

libtiff/tif_acorn.c		Acorn-related OS support
libtiff/tif_apple.c		Apple-related OS support
libtiff/tif_atari.c		Atari-related OS support
libtiff/tif_aux.c		auxilary directory-related functions
libtiff/tif_close.c		close an open TIFF file
libtiff/tif_codec.c		configuration table of builtin codecs
libtiff/tif_compress.c		compression scheme support
libtiff/tif_dir.c		directory tag interface code
libtiff/tif_dirinfo.c		directory known tag support code
libtiff/tif_dirread.c		directory reading code
libtiff/tif_dirwrite.c		directory writing code
libtiff/tif_dumpmode.c		"no" compression codec
libtiff/tif_error.c		library error handler
libtiff/tif_fax3.c		CCITT Group 3 and 4 codec
libtiff/tif_fax3sm.c		G3/G4 state tables (generated by mkg3states)
libtiff/tif_flush.c		i/o and directory state flushing
libtiff/tif_getimage.c		TIFFRGBAImage support
libtiff/tif_jpeg.c		JPEG codec (interface to the IJG distribution)
libtiff/tif_luv.c		SGI LogL/LogLuv codec
libtiff/tif_lzw.c		LZW codec
libtiff/tif_msdos.c		MSDOS-related OS support
libtiff/tif_next.c		NeXT 2-bit scheme codec (decoding only)
libtiff/tif_open.c		open and simply query code
libtiff/tif_packbits.c		Packbits codec
libtiff/tif_pixarlog.c		Pixar codec
libtiff/tif_predict.c		Predictor tag support
libtiff/tif_print.c		directory printing support
libtiff/tif_read.c		image data reading support
libtiff/tif_strip.c		some strip-related code
libtiff/tif_swab.c		byte and bit swapping support
libtiff/tif_thunder.c		Thunderscan codec (decoding only)
libtiff/tif_tile.c		some tile-related code
libtiff/tif_unix.c		UNIX-related OS support
libtiff/tif_version.c		library version support
libtiff/tif_vms.c		VMS-related OS support
libtiff/tif_warning.c		library warning handler
libtiff/tif_win3.c		Windows-3.1-related OS support
libtiff/tif_win32.c		Win32 (95/98/NT) related OS support
libtiff/tif_write.c		image data writing support
libtiff/tif_zip.c		Deflate codec

libtiff/mkg3states.c		program to generate G3/G4 decoder state tables
libtiff/mkspans.c		program to generate black-white span tables
libtiff/mkversion.c		program to generate libtiff/version.h.

Last updated: $Date: 1999/11/29 01:31:45 $