Building Exiv2 v0.26 + Python 3.6.4 + Py3Exiv2 v0.1.0 on Centos¶

1) Install Development Tools on CentOS

Update the system and install the development tools
(https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-python-3-and-set-up-a-local-programming-environment-on-centos-7)
sudo yum -y update
sudo yum -y install yum-utils
sudo yum -y groupinstall development

2) Build and test exiv2

2.a) Install dependent libraries:
sudo yum -y install expat-devel
sudo yum -y install zlib-devel

2.b) Install tools required for the Exiv2 test suite
sudo yum -y install subversion
sudo yum -y install dos2unix

2.c) Get the code
http://www.exiv2.org/download.html

2.d) Install the code into the build tree
mkdir -p ~/gnu/exiv2
… copy the source into … ~/gnu/exiv2/exiv2-trunk

2.e) Build it
(http://dev.exiv2.org/projects/exiv2/wiki/How_do_I_build_Exiv2_on_the_XYZ_platform)
cd ~/gnu/exiv2/exiv2-trunk
./configure
make
sudo make install
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig”

2.f) Run the test suite (optional)
svn export svn://dev.exiv2.org/svn/tags/0.26/test # you only need to do this once to download the test suite
make samples
make tests

3) Build and install python 3.6.4

3.a) Get the code
https://www.python.org/downloads/

3.b) Install the code into the build tree
mkdir ~/gnu/python
… copy the source into … ~/gnu/python/Python-3.6.4

3.c) Built and install python3.6.4
cd ~/gnu/python/Python-3.6.4
./configure
make
sudo make install

3.d) Create a link to use python3
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3.6 /usr/local/bin/python3

4) Build and install boost

4.a) Get the code from http://www.boost.org/users/download/
mkdir ~/gnu/boost
… copy the source into ~/gnu/boost/boost_1_66_0

4.b) Build and install boost
cd ~/gnu/boost/boost_1_66_0

export BOOST_LIBRARYDIR=$PWD/libs
export BOOST_ROOT=$PWD
export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/include/python3.6m
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib"
./bootstrap.sh --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python3.6
./b2
sudo $PWD/b2 install

5) Build and test py3exiv2

5.a) Get the code from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/py3exiv2/0.1.0
mkdir ~/gnu/py3exiv2
… copy the source into ~/gnu/py3exiv2/py3exiv2-0.1.0

5.b) Build and install py3exiv2
cd ~/gnu/py3exiv2/py3exiv2-0.1.0
sudo /usr/local/bin/python3.6 setup.py install

5.c) Test py3exiv2
python3.6
import pyexiv2
image=pyexiv2.ImageMetadata(‘/home/username/Pictures/MyImage.jpg’) # image on your computer
image.read()
image.exif_keys
……….. lots and lots of lovely output …………….

6) To run in a “clean shell”

6.a) Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH
I recommend you set this in your ~/.login or ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile so that it’s “always set"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib”

6.b) Run python3
python3
import pyexiv2
help(pyexiv2)