OpenPIV would not have been possible if other great open source projects did not exist. We make extensive use of code and tools that other people have created, so you should install them before you can use OpenPIV.
The dependencies are:
On all platforms, the binary Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) is recommended. Visit http://www.enthought.com
On a Linux platform installing these dependencies should be trick. Often, if not always, python is installed by default, while the other dependencies should appear in your package manager.
On Windows all these dependencies, as well as several other useful packages, can be installed using the Python(x,y) distribution, available at http://www.pythonxy.com/
The binary (32 or 64 bit) Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) is recommended. Visit http://www.enthought.com
At this moment the only way to get OpenPIV’s source code is using git. Git Git is a distributed revision control system and our code is hosted at GitHub.
If you are interested in the source code you are welcome to browse out git repository stored at https://github.com/gasagna/OpenPIV. If you want to download the source code on your machine, for testing, you need to set up git on your computer. Please look at http://help.github.com/ which provide extensive help for how to set up git.
To follow the development of OpenPIV, clone our repository with the command:
git clone http://github.com/alexlib/openpiv-python.git
and update from time to time. You can also download a tarball containing everything.
Then add the path where the OpenPIV source are to the PYTHONPATH environment variable, so that OpenPIV module can be imported and used in your programs. Remeber to build the extension with
python setup.py build
If you encountered some issues, found difficult to install OpenPIV following these instructions please drop us an email to openpiv-develop@lists.sourceforge.net , so that we can help you and improve this page!