README.md

OpenScan device module for Becker & Hickl Single Photon Counters

How to build

Only x64 builds are curretnly supported.

• Install Visual Studio 2019 or later with C++ Desktop Development, Meson, and CMake. Make sure meson, ninja, and cmake are on the PATH.
• Install Becker-Hickl's TCSPC Package (make sure SPCM and SPCM-DLL are selected).
• In Git Bash, clone vcpkg (if you do not already have it) and this repo:

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git
git clone https://github.com/openscan-lsm/OpenScan-BHSPC.git

(Currently, vcpkg is used to obtain libzip conveniently.)

• Bootstrap vcpkg (if you have not done so yet) and install libzip. This should be done in PowerShell or Command Prompt, not Git Bash:

cd path\to\vcpkg
.\bootstrap-vcpkg -disableMetrics
.\vcpkg install libzip --triplet=x64-windows-static

• Build OpenScan-BHSPC. This is best done in the Developer PowerShell for VS 2019 (or later), which can be started from the Start Menu (hint: type 'developer powershell' into the Start Menu to search).

cd path\to\OpenScan-BHSPC
meson setup builddir -Dvcpkgdir=C:\full\path\to\vcpkg -Db_vscrt=static_from_buildtype --buildtype release
meson compile -C builddir

This results in the module OpenScanBHSPC.osdev in builddir.

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