Building Image Uploader on Windows

To build Image Uploader from source files you will need:

Git https://git-scm.com/downloads
Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 or newer (with C++ compiler) https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/
CMake (tested with v3.24.0) https://cmake.org/
Python 3 https://www.python.org/downloads/
Conan v1.x (C++ package manager; tested with v1.62) https://conan.io/

Ensure that your %PATH% environment variable includes the directory of your Python and CMake distribution. I recommend to install Conan using pip utility. You can install specific version of conan: pip3 install conan==1.62.

To generate a Visual Studio solution from CMakeLists.txt you need to create a directory for build files and call cmake:

mkdir Build
cd Build

The recommended way is to pass conan profile to the cmake command.

cmake <path_to_imageuploader_source>\Source -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A Win32 -DIU_HOST_PROFILE=default -DIU_BUILD_PROFILE=default

The old way:

cmake <path_to_imageuploader_source>\Source -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A Win32 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES:STRING=Release -DCMAKE_TRY_COMPILE_CONFIGURATION:STRING=Release

If you are cross-compiling (from Windows x64 to x86) and want to build FFmpeg libraries from Conan repository then you should use two profiles (-DIU_HOST_PROFILE=windows_vs2019_x86_release -DIU_BUILD_PROFILE=windows_vs2019_x64_release)

After that, you can open the generated project in Visual Studio and build it there. Also you can run the command:

cmake --build . --config Release

The same you can achieve using cmake-gui utility. In cmake-gui you can see all compilation options and easily change them.

If you want to build Image Uploader with separate FFmpeg libraries (IU_ENABLE_FFMPEG=On and IU_FFMPEG_STANDALONE=On), after building put them (avcodec.lib, avformat.lib, avutil.lib, swscale.lib) into Contrib\Lib directory and header files into Contrib\Include directory.

If you want to build IU with Microsoft Edge Webview2 support (IU_ENABLE_WEBVIEW2=On), you should install package "Microsoft.Web.WebView2" using NuGet package manager (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/get-started/win32), then copy header files (*.h) to the "Contrib\Include" directory, and copy *.lib files to Contrib\Lib directory.

Some examples, nevermind:

cmake ..\Source -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A Win32 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DIU_HOST_PROFILE=vs2019_x86_debug -DIU_BUILD_PROFILE=vs2022_x64 -DIU_ENABLE_FFMPEG=On -DIU_ENABLE_WEBVIEW2=On 

cmake ..\Source -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A ARM64 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DIU_HOST_PROFILE=../Conan/profiles/vs2019_arm64_release -DIU_BUILD_PROFILE=../Conan/profiles/vs2022_x64 -DIU_ENABLE_FFMPEG=On -DIU_ENABLE_WEBVIEW2=On -DIU_FFMPEG_STANDALONE=On -DIU_ENABLE_MEDIAINFO=Off -DCMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES:STRING=Release

For ARM64:

cmake ..\Source -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A ARM64 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DIU_HOST_PROFILE=../Conan/profiles/vs2019_arm64_release -DIU_BUILD_PROFILE=../Conan/Profiles/vs2022_x64 -DIU_ENABLE_FFMPEG=On -DIU_ENABLE_WEBVIEW2=On -DIU_FFMPEG_STANDALONE=On -DIU_ENABLE_MEDIAINFO=Off

Building on Ubuntu (CLI and Qt GUI)

Use the same approach with Conan to build imgupload on Linux. As the project is using cmake_find_package_multi generator, we have to use CMake generators with multi-config support. Such generator is ninja.

Before compiling IU install the following packages:

sudo apt-get install g++ cmake ninja-build python3-pip
pip3 install conan

Configure and build the project:

git clone https://github.com/zenden2k/image-uploader.git
cd image-uploader
mkdir Build
cd Build
cmake ../Source  -G "Ninja Multi-Config" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES:STRING=Release -DCMAKE_TRY_COMPILE_CONFIGURATION:STRING=Release
cmake --build . --config Release

If you want to compile qimageuploader (GUI) you have to install Qt 5 dev libraries before compiling:

sudo apt install qt5-default

You may also need these packages for creating a .deb package:

sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool fakeroot

and pass -DIU_BUILD_QIMAGEUPLOADER=On option to the cmake command.

Build packages for all platforms at once

Run on Windows:

git config --global core.autocrlf false

Allow creating symlinks (you can do it by turning on Developer Mode on Windows 11). Another way is to run Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt as Administrator.

Prerequisites (on Windows)

msbuild that is a part of Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 or newer (with x86/x64/ARM64 C++ compiler)
ATL library for x86/x64/ARM64 platform (a part of Visual Studio)
python 3
git
cmake
conan
nuget
7-Zip (7z.exe)
Inno Setup 6 (iscc.exe)
WSL 2 & Ubuntu 20.04+

Prerequisites On WSL (Ubuntu Linux)

git
conan
cmake (version >= 3.17)
doxygen
msgfmt (gettext)
Qt 5 development libraries
autoconf, automake, libtool, fakeroot for building Debian packages.

You can install most of them by running the command

sudo apt-get install git g++ cmake ninja-build python3-pip doxygen gettext  autoconf automake libtool fakeroot qt5-default
pip3 install conan==1.62

Note that Ubuntu 20.04 has CMake v3.16 but the script requires >= v3.17. You can install the latest binary distribution from the official website https://cmake.org/

All programs must be added to the PATH environment variable. Copy versioninfo.h to the Dist directory. Edit this file and set the values you need. The build number will be incremented automatically.