Installation

Supported platforms

This package is tested with the following platforms:

  • Mac OS X 10.11.4 with clang (Apple LLVM version 7.3.0) (locally)
  • Ubuntu 14.04 with gcc 4.8.4 (Travis CI)
  • Windows with Visual Studio 2015 x64 (AppVeyor CI, only for python 3.5)

Others might be supported, but not guaranteed yet.

Build requirements

  • libfreenect2 (0.2.0 or later)
  • python (2.7, 3.4 or 3.5)
  • numpy
  • cython
  • C++ compiler (clang, gcc or MSVC)

Building pylibfreenect2

The package requires libfreenect2 installed and its location in advance. Please make sure that:

  • You have installed libfreenect2 correctly and confirm that Protonect works.
  • You have set LIBFREENECT2_INSTALL_PREFIX environmental variable (default: /usr/local/) and confirm that ${LIBFREENECT2_INSTALL_PREFIX}include/libfreenect2/config.h exists.

After that, you should be able to install pylibfreenect2 as follows:

pip install pylibfreenect2

If you want the development version of pylibfreenect2,

pip install git+https://github.com/r9y9/pylibfreenect2

or clone the repository and then:

python setup.py install

This should resolve the package dependencies and install pylibfreenect2 property.

Note

If you have installed libfreenect2 in your custom path (e.g. ~/freenect2), make sure that the libfreenect2 shared library is in your library search path (DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH for osx and LD_LIBRARY_PATH for linux).