Building exiv2 on Ubuntu using Cmake¶

• This has been tested on Ubuntu14.04 64 and 32 bit minimal installations.
• Last revision on which this method was tested: r3288
• This wiki page assumes that installation prefix is /usr/local and your build-dir is ~/gnu/exiv2

1. Install some of the basic utilities
   

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install -y subversion make cmake autoconf pkg-config g++ clang #clang is required only if you wish to use it as the compiler instead of gcc
   

2. Install all the dependencies for building exiv2. Since exiv2 is already available in the Ubuntu repositories, this method makes life easier.
   

   sudo apt-get build-dep -y exiv2
   

   
   In case you get the error ...
   

   E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list",
   

   
   .. then edit /etc/apt/sources.list . Copy all lines starting with 'deb' and replace the first word of these lines from 'deb' to 'deb-src' in their copied versions.
3. Fetch the source code:
   

   mkdir -p ~/gnu/exiv2
   cd ~/gnu/exiv2
   svn checkout svn://dev.exiv2.org/svn/trunk
   cd trunk
   

4. Start building exiv2
   

   mkdir build
   cd build
   cmake .. #if you are using clang, then do: CC=clang CXX=clang++ cmake ..
   make
   sudo make install
   

5. Building tests.
   • Running tests requires one additional package:
     

     sudo apt-get install -y exifprobe
     

   • Finally:
     

     cd ~/gnu/exiv2/trunk/build
     make tests