Building from source

Apart form the source code, you will need the OpenCV library, the wxWidgets toolkit, the cmake build system and a working C++ compiler.

On an e.g. Debian or Ubuntu, the following should do the job:

apt-get install build-essential cmake libcv-dev libcvaux-dev libhighgui-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev   

On Windows, you can get the libraries precompiled from their corresponding websites and you can use e.g. the free Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (or 2010) Express. If you want to also build a Windows Installer, you will also need the free NSIS Installer.

The source code is in a git repository hosted on sourceforge which can be browsed via GitWeb. You can check it out with the following (e.g. on a Unix-like system):

git clone git://contactangle.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/contactangle/contactangle

In the source directory run the following:

cmake .
make
sudo make install

Open cmake-gui, set the source and build directory to the ContacAngle source dir, press configure (for eg. Visual Studio), press generate.

Open the generated ContactAngle.sln in Visual Studio, build solution. This will give you the binary in the Release. or Debug/ directory, depending on your build configuration.