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\f0\fs24 \cf0 These are my brief notes on my attempts to get fast-light-field to install on Windows (Nov 2023).\
Ultimately we are encountering masses of errors and I don\'92t think I\'92m going to have the time to get this to work.\
It would probably be possible to make it work through MinGW, but I do not have the experience or time to figure out how to make that happen.\
If anybody does get that working, do please share with me the instructions, and any tweaks needed to the project code.\
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Error: cython build requires visual studio 14.0 or greater.\
Some people say that this can be fixed by: pip install --upgrade setuptools     but that wasn\'92t sufficient for me\

\f1\i I think I did fix this in the end, but I can\'92t remember what I actually did to solve it\'85
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in light-field-integrands/bessel.c replace the 1/0 with NAN and it compiles\
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and need to change the code in fast-light-field/setup.py to do os.chdir and then chdir ..\
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Windows: Manually extract fftw-3.3.8.tar.gz into the same directory (right-click and choose Extract here)\
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fast-light-field/setup.py split out the FFTW build command into individual steps\
-> But it still doesn\'92t work (issues with building it on Windows that I haven\'92t tried to solve - including that the \'93make\'94 command does not exist)\
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Compiling fast-light-field:\
- remove includes of sys/cdefs.h, sys.errno.h. \
- __attribute (in jAssert.h) is not defined so delete it\
- In jCommon.h delete the random number generator functions\
- In jAssert.cpp remove execinfo.h, backtrace etc\
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-> But it still doesn\'92t work (for example pthreads and mutexes aren\'92t available, which are fundamental to the code).\
-> I\'92m not sure if MinGW should be able to sidestep those issues, but I\'92m not familiar enough with it to know\'85\
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