Plan to provide aliceVision as a prebuild C++ Library (.lib...)?

[gameanimation3d]

Problem

Do you plan to provide a prebuild AliceVision Library for C++ (with .lib files, header filles and include folder structure) including the different dependencies for Developer.
As the compiling of aliceVision for everyone else is very difficult and time consuming.

Would be amazing to include AliceVision in a C++ Solution relativily easily. Like for example the SFML Library or other c++ libaries

[fabiencastan]

Hi,
We provide precompiled binaries, but you are right the headers are missing. We will pay attention to this for the next release.

[gameanimation3d]

Hi,
perfect :) When will be the next release ;) ?

[gameanimation3d]

Would it be possible to release these prebuilt libaries with headers for the last release?
this would solve my issues of building aliceVision and i think many other people aswell.

Aswell you devs don't have to answer that many issues on building the existing framework. over and over again.
Would be amazing if you could this :)

[natowi]

@gameanimation3d

this would solve my issues of building aliceVision and i think many other people aswell. Aswell you devs don't have to answer that many issues on building the existing framework. over and over again.

I agree, building alicevision is not fun. Auto-generated "dev-build" releases by travis/appveyor would be really useful (also for the alicevision plugins) as suggested here

[natowi]

@gameanimation3d I hope this is what you were looking for:

From now on, a windows snapshot build for every commit can be downloaded from the appveyor build artifacts tab.

To get the latest dev build (and not the latest PR build, look up the latest commit id for the AliceVision develop repository and then navigate to the commit in the appveyor history)

This includes .exe, .dll, .lib, .exp files.

Note: Do not use snapshots if you need a stable build.
Snapshot builds are for developers and testers and should be considered unstable.

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