Tracking issue for making reproducible builds and ideally cross platform builds.

Work will be done in https://github.com/Aharoni-Lab/Miniscope-DAQ-QT-Software/tree/feature-repro-build

Overview

Currently the build has unspecified dependencies (hardcoded paths to opencv in particular) and so we would like to standardize the build and deploy process for CI/CD. We would also like to target multiple operating systems (i think all with x64 arch?).

TODO

To do that, I think we need to

• Use multiple github actions runner images for windows, linux, mac: https://github.com/actions/runner-images#available-images
• Make dockerfiles for each that include proper versions of
  • Python
  • OpenCV
  • Qt5
• Modify the qmake project with platform-specific dependencies/configuration options
• Configure build action on push to main to make
  • versioned
  • releases

Need to know:

• If we need to make any modifications to the source to accomodate differences in OS support, @phildong mentions differences between directshow and v4l2 in support for setting some camera properties.
  • In V4L2 this is dependent on the particular driver used for the miniscopes, so need to figure out which that is.

Prior work

Repos

• Cross-platform DAQ software: https://github.com/bothlab/pomidaq
• Fork that adds linux support (and does a substantial refactor, we should decouple and do one and then maybe the other if desired): https://github.com/HaaPut/Miniscope-DAQ-QT-Software/tree/master

Issues

Intended to close:

• Issue compiling in windows #53
• add linux support? #42
• Python issues compiling in Linux #32