# OpenColorIO

## Open Source Color Management

Home Compatible Software Configurations Installation Building from source Quick environment configuration Nuke Configuration Environment variables User Guide Developer guide FAQ Downloads ChangeLog License ### Quick search | # Installation ## Building from source While there is a huge range of possible setups, the following steps should work on OS X and most Linux distros. The basic requirements are: cmake >= 2.8 (optional) Python 2.x (for the Python bindings) (optional) Nuke 6.x (for the Nuke nodes) (optional) OpenImageIO (for apps including ocioconvert) (optional) Truelight SDK (for TruelightTransform) To keep things simple, this guide will use the following example paths - these will almost definitely be different for you: source code: `/source/ocio` the temporary build location: `/tmp/ociobuild` the final install directory: `/software/ocio` First make the build directory and cd to it:
    $ mkdir /tmp/ociobuild
    $ cd /tmp/ociobuild
Next step is to run cmake, which looks for things such as the compiler’s required arguments, optional requirements like Python, Nuke, OpenImageIO etc As we want to install OCIO to a custom location (instead of the default `/usr/local`), we will run cmake with `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` Still in `/tmp/ociobuild`, run:
    $ cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/software/ocio /source/ocio
The last argument is the location of the OCIO source code (containing the main CMakeLists.txt file). You should see something along the lines of:
    -- Configuring done
    -- Generating done
    -- Build files have been written to: /tmp/ociobuild
Next, build everything (with the `-j` flag to build using 8 threads):
    $ make -j8
This should complete in a few minutes. Finally, install the files into the specified location:
    $ make install
If nothing went wrong, `/software/ocio` should look something like this:
    $ cd /software/ocio
    $ ls
    bin/     include/ lib/
    $ ls bin/
    ocio2icc    ociobakelut ociocheck
    $ ls include/
    OpenColorIO/   PyOpenColorIO/ pkgconfig/
    $ ls lib/
    libOpenColorIO.a      libOpenColorIO.dylib
### Enabling optional components The OpenColorIO library is probably not all you want - the Python libraries bindings, the Nuke nodes and several applications are only built if their dependencies are found. In the case of the Python bindings, the dependencies are the Python headers for the version you wish to use. These may be picked up by default - if so, when you run cmake you would see:
    -- Python 2.6 okay, will build the Python bindings against .../include/python2.6
If not, you can point cmake to correct Python executable using the `-D PYTHON=...` cmake flag:
    $ cmake -D PYTHON=/my/custom/python2.6 /source/ocio
Same process with Nuke (although it less likely to be picked up automatically). Point cmake to your Nuke install directory by adding `-D NUKE_INSTALL_PATH`:
    $ cmake -D PYTHON=/my/custom/python2.6 -D NUKE_INSTALL_PATH=/Applications/Nuke6.2v1/Nuke6.2v1.app/Contents/MacOS/ /source/ocio
The `NUKE_INSTALL_PATH` directory should contain the Nuke executable (e.g Nuke6.2v1), and a `include/` directory containing `DDImage/` and others. If set correctly, you will see something similar to:
    -- Found Nuke: /Applications/Nuke6.2v1/Nuke6.2v1.app/Contents/MacOS/include
    -- Nuke_API_VERSION: --6.2--
The Nuke plugins are installed into `lib/nuke$MAJOR.$MINOR/`, e.g `lib/nuke6.2/OCIODisdplay.so` Note If you are using the Nuke plugins, you should compile the Python bindings for the same version of Python that Nuke uses internally. For Nuke 6.0 and 6.1 this is Python 2.5, and for 6.2 it is Python 2.6 The applications included with OCIO have various dependencies - to determine these, look at the CMake output when first run:
    -- Not building ocioconvert. Requirement(s) found: OIIO:FALSE
## Quick environment configuration The quickest way to set the required Environment variables is to source the `share/ocio/setup_ocio.sh` script installed with OCIO. For a simple single-user setup, add the following to `~/.bashrc` (assuming you are using bash, and the example install directory of `/software/ocio`):
    source /software/ocio/share/ocio/setup_ocio.sh
The only environment variable you must configure manually is `OCIO`, which points to the configuration file you wish to use. For prebuilt config files, see the Downloads section To do this, you would add a line to `~/.bashrc` (or a per-project configuration script etc), for example:
    export OCIO="/path/to/my/config.ocio"
## Nuke Configuration If you specified the `NUKE_INSTALL_PATH` option when running cmake, you should have a `/software/ocio/lib/nuke6.2` directory containing various files. If you have followed Quick environment configuration, the plugins should be functional. However, one common additional configuration step is to register an OCIODisplay node for each display device/view specified in the config. To do this, in a menu.py on `NUKE_PATH` (e.g `~/.nuke/menu.py` for a single user setup), add the following:
    import ocionuke.viewer
    ocionuke.viewer.populate_viewer(also_remove = "default")
The `also_remove` argument can be set to either “default” to remove the default sRGB/rec709 options, “all” to remove everything, or “none” to leave existing viewer processes untouched. Alternatively, if your workflow has different requirements, you can copy the function and modify it as required, or use it as reference to write your own, better viewer setup function!
    import nuke

    def register_viewers(also_remove = "default"):
        """Registers the a viewer process for each display device/view, and
        sets the default viewer process.

        ``also_remove`` can be set to either:

        - "default" to remove the default sRGB/rec709 viewer processes
        - "all" to remove all processes
        - "none" to leave existing viewer processes untouched
        """

        if also_remove not in ("default", "none", "all"):
            raise ValueError("also_remove should be set to 'default', 'none' or 'all'")

        if also_remove == "default":
            nuke.ViewerProcess.unregister('rec709')
            nuke.ViewerProcess.unregister('sRGB')
            nuke.ViewerProcess.unregister('None')
        elif also_remove == "all":
            # Unregister all processes, including None, which should be defined in config.ocio
            for curname in nuke.ViewerProcess.registeredNames():
                nuke.ViewerProcess.unregister(curname)

        # Formats the display and transform, e.g "Film1D (sRGB)"
        DISPLAY_UI_FORMAT = "%(view)s (%(display)s)"

        import PyOpenColorIO as OCIO
        config = OCIO.GetCurrentConfig()

        # For every display, loop over every view
        for display in config.getDisplays():
            for view in config.getViews(display):
                # Register the node
                nuke.ViewerProcess.register(
                    name = DISPLAY_UI_FORMAT % {'view': view, "display": display},
                    call = nuke.nodes.OCIODisplay,
                    args = (),
                    kwargs = {"display": display, "view": view, "layer": "all"})

        # Get the default display and view, set it as the default used on Nuke startup
        defaultDisplay = config.getDefaultDisplay()
        defaultView = config.getDefaultView(defaultDisplay)

        nuke.knobDefault(
            "Viewer.viewerProcess",
            DISPLAY_UI_FORMAT % {'view': defaultView, "display": defaultDisplay})
  ## Environment variables `OCIO` This variable needs to point to the global OCIO config file, e.g `config.ocio` `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH` The `lib/` folder (containing `libOpenColorIO.dylib`) must be on the `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH` search path, or you will get an error similar to:
      dlopen(.../OCIOColorSpace.so, 2): Library not loaded: libOpenColorIO.dylib
      Referenced from: .../OCIOColorSpace.so
      Reason: image not found
  This applies to anything that links against OCIO, including the Nuke nodes, and the `PyOpenColorIO` Python bindings. `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` Equivalent to the `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH` on Linux `PYTHONPATH` Python’s module search path. If you are using the PyOpenColorIO module, you must add `lib/python2.x` to this search path (e.g `python/2.5`), or importing the module will fail:
      >>> import PyOpenColorIO
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
      ImportError: No module named PyOpenColorIO
Note that `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH` or `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` must be set correctly for the module to work. `NUKE_PATH` Nuke’s customisation search path, where it will look for plugins, gizmos, init.py and menu.py scripts and other customisations. This should point to both `lib/nuke6.2/` (or whatever version the plugins are built against), and `share/nuke/`