Re: [Gimp-user] Ufraw Install on Mac?

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 5:46 AM, Maurizio Loreti <maurizio loreti gmail com>
wrote:

> > On 30 Mar 2017, at 21:57, Chuanist <forums gimpusers com> wrote:
> >
> > Pat—
> >
> > thanks for the suggestion. It makes me think that, indeed, Ufraw is a
> hard nut
> > to crack. It's kind of too bad, because the bundled and installed Ufraw
> in the
> > previous version of GIMP was very seamless and convenient to  use.
>
> Hello -
> I am a satisfied Mac user and an avid photographer; I use for the
> post-production of my pictures GIMP, namely the distribution (released by
> Simone Karin Lehmann) "GIMP on OS X", available under the URL
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimponosx .  This distribution comes with
> a pre-compiled gimp-ufraw plugin; loading a RAW picture in GIMP is handled
> in this way.  However "GIMP on OS X" lacks a standalone ufraw and
> ufraw-batch.  Needing for my RAW pictures ufraw-batch, I compiled ufraw and
> ufraw-batch from the source code; however this is not completely described
> in the ufraw documentation.  Here is what I did.
>
> For the compiler, you need to install Xcode (from the Apple Store, free)
> and the Xcode command line tools; how to do that is described in a lot of
> places, Google will help.
>
> For the libraries, I have installed the ones supplied by the Macports
> projects:
>
>           +--------------+--------------+---------+
>           |              | Package      | Version |
>           +--------------+--------------+---------+
>           | LCMS         | lcms2        | 2.8     |
>           | EXIV2        | exiv2        | 0.25    |
>           | JPEG         | jpeg         | 9b      |
>           | JPEG2000     | openjpeg     | 2.1.2   |
>           | TIFF         | tiff         | 4.0.7   |
>           | PNG          | libpng       | 1.6.28  |
>           | ZIP          | zip          | 3.00    |
>           | BZIP2        | bzip2        | 1.0.6   |
>           | LENSFUN      | lensfun      | 0.3.2   |
>           | CFITSIO      | cfitsio      | 3.390   |
>           | GTKIMAGEVIEW | gtkimageview | 1.6.4   |
>           +--------------+--------------+---------+
>
> How to install them is described in the Macports home page,
> http://www.macports.org .
>
> The Macports libraries are compiled with clang and clang++ as C and C++
> compilers; while clang and gcc are fully compatible, and their object files
> linkable together, clang++ and g++ use different name mangling schemes; so,
> if you want e.g. exiv2 support (exiv2 is a C++ package) you need to change
> the default compilers.  So, finally, I unpacked, configured, compiled and
> installed ufraw/ufraw-batch with the following commands:
>
> tar xzf ufraw-0.22.tar.gz
> cd ufraw-0.22/
> CC=clang CXX=clang++ CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include \
>     LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib \
>     ./configure --prefix=/opt/local/share/ufraw-0.22
> make
> sudo make install
> sudo ln -s /opt/local/share/ufraw-0.22 /opt/local/share/ufraw
> ln -s /opt/local/share/ufraw/bin/ufraw ~/Applications/ufraw
> ln -s /opt/local/share/ufraw/bin/ufraw-batch ~/Applications/ufraw-batch
> ln -s /opt/local/share/ufraw/share/man/man1/ufraw.1 ~/man/man1/ufraw.1
>
> Notes:
> - Macports include files are in /opt/local/include .
> - Macports libraries are in /opt/local/lib .
> - I installed ufraw in /opt/local/share/ufraw-0.22 , a directory
> soft-linked to /opt/local/share/ufraw ; when a new release will
>   come, say 0.xy, it will be enough to install it in
> /opt/local/share/ufraw-0.xy and, then, change the soft link.
> - The executables ufraw and ufraw-batch are soft-linked to ~/Applications,
> where OS X expects to find user executables.
> - I have created ~/man/... for personal man files, and linked there
> ufraw.1, in order to have the output of "man ufraw".
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Maurizio Loreti  --  Maurizio Loreti gmail com
>
>
> Or install my Mac builds McGimp which comes with a pre-compiled NUFRaw
which is the continuation of the UFRaw development. My build also comes
with G'MIC.

I don't think UFRaw is being maintained now. NUFRaw is currently at version
0.38.

I'd also recommend preprocessing with RawTherapee which I am also providing
either from my website or RT discussion site hosted by Pat.