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Introduction

For more information about the software HALCON from MVTec, we refer to their office website: https://www.mvtec.com/products/halcon/

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HALCON can be preinstalled on the camera under the location `/opt/halcon` and can be acceses via the path variable `$HALCONROOT` . If not preinstalled please contact you sales.

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HALCON for ARM-based Platforms

The offical MVTec document "HALCON for Arm-based Platforms" describes the process of "compiling/cross-compiling" of HALCON application and is linked below.

https://www.mvtec.com/fileadmin/Redaktion/mvtec.com/documentation/manuals/arm_based_platforms.pdf

The document is divided into chapter. For a better orientation we give a short overview:

Chapter 1 Using HALCON on ARM-based Platforms

Gives a general overview of using HALCON on ARM-based platforms.

Chapter 2 Getting Started

Discribes the process of installing HALCON to an ARM-based platform and can be skipped since the HALCON tools are preinstalled both on the iam camera and the virtual machine.

Chapter 3 Creating Applications

Describes the process of "compiling/cross-compiling" of an HALCON application.

HALCON Examples on iam camera

You need to open an SSH Shell connection to the camera. For some example you also need to have X-Server support.

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ssh -Y root@192.168.1.10

There are some examples preinstalled to the iam camera. They can be found under the location

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cd /home/root/040530_test_halcon

On top of the filesystem can be found the README.md.

There is are detailed information about the provided samples.

Structure of the test_HALCON folder:

The folder contains the file system below. On can see that the three examples do have a similar file structure.

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.
|-- README.md			
|-- cpp
|   |-- Makefile
|   |-- test_halcon_aniso_test
|   |   |-- bin
|   |   |   |-- aarch64-linux
|   |   |       |-- find_aniso_shape_model
|   |   |-- makefiles
|   |   |   |-- macros.mak
|   |   |   |-- makefile
|   |   |   |-- rules.mak
|   |   |-- source
|   |   |   |-- find_aniso_shape_model.cpp
|   |   |-- vs2010
|   |       |-- test_halcon_aniso.sln
|   |       |-- test_halcon_aniso.suo
|   |       |-- test_halcon_aniso.vcxproj
|   |       |-- test_halcon_aniso.vcxproj.filters
|   |       |-- test_halcon_aniso.vcxproj.user
|   |       |-- x64
|   |           |-- Release
|   |               |-- test_halcon_aniso.exe
|   |-- test_halcon_live_view
|   |   |-- bin
|   |   |   |-- aarch64-linux
|   |   |       |-- test_halcon_live_view
|   |   |-- makefiles
|   |   |   |-- macros.mak
|   |   |   |-- makefile
|   |   |   |-- rules.mak
|   |   |-- source
|   |   |   |-- test_halcon_live_view.cpp
|   |   |-- vs2010
|   |       |-- test_halcon_live_view.sln
|   |       |-- test_halcon_live_view.suo
|   |       |-- test_halcon_live_view.vcxproj
|   |       |-- test_halcon_live_view.vcxproj.filters
|   |       |-- test_halcon_live_view.vcxproj.user
|   |       |-- x64
|   |           |-- Release
|   |               |-- test_halcon_live_view.exe
|   |-- /test_halcon_sw_trigger
|       |-- bin
|       |   |-- aarch64-linux
|       |       |-- test_halcon_sw_trigger
|       |-- makefiles
|       |   |-- macros.mak
|       |   |-- makefile
|       |   |-- rules.mak
|       |-- source
|       |   |-- test_halcon_sw_trigger.cpp
|       |-- vs2010
|           |-- test_halcon_sw_trigger.sln
|           |-- test_halcon_sw_trigger.suo
|           |-- test_halcon_sw_trigger.vcxproj
|           |-- test_halcon_sw_trigger.vcxproj.filters
|           |-- test_halcon_sw_trigger.vcxproj.user
|           |-- x64
|               |-- Release
|                   |-- test_halcon_sw_trigger.exe
|-- profile_halcon

Description of samples:

test_halcon_aniso_test:

This sample is derived from find_aniso_shape_model.hdev (MVTec Software GmbH).
This sample is designed for testing the performance of the FindAnisoShapeModel() function.
With 50 loops a mean value of the consumed time of FindAnisoShapeModel() is evaluated.

OPTIONS:

NO_WINDOWS ; if defined no windows are shown

test_halcon_live_view:

This sample is derived from error_handling_timeout.cpp (MVTec Software GmbH).
This sample is designed for testing the live view of the iam platform.

OPTIONS:

SAVE_IMAGE ; if defined, a image is saved at the end of program
SET_EXPOSURE_TIME ; if defined, a exposure time is set

test_halcon_sw_trigger:

This sample is derived from error_handling_timeout.cpp (MVTec Software GmbH).
This sample is designed to show the software trigger functionality.
This sample aquires 100 software triggered frames.
No live view is implemented.

OPTIONS:

NONE

Execute one of the provided HALCON examples

The binarys of the prebuild examples can be found in the ../bin directory of each example project. The test_halcon_live_view can be executed by the commands below. The two other examples can be executed in the same way.

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cd /home/root/040530_test_halcon/cpp/test_halcon_live_view/bin/aarch64-linux/
./test_halcon_live_view

Tip
The `test_halcon_live_view` example opens a figure showing the camera live image. Therefore it is necessary that the OpenSSH connection allows x11 forwarding!

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The two other examples `test_halcon_aniso_test` and `test_halcon_sw_trigger` do not need the x11 forwarding.

Compiling the provided HALCON examples

It is possible to compile the examples on a Linux Host system (e.g. by using the provided virtual machine image) or native on the camera (over OpenSSH) both using makefiles.

Tip

For cross-compiling, you have to source profile_halcon:
source .profile_halcon

You can test successful sourcing with:
echo $HALCONARCH

You should see:
aarch64-linux

The next section described the process of building the software trigger project as an example.

Build e.g. the software trigger example

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The steps discribed below are both the same on native and cross compile environment.

Navigate into the makefile directory

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cd /home/root/040530_test_halcon/cpp/test_halcon_sw_trigger/makefiles

Remove the prebuild binary by execute the command make make clean and build it from source by make .

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For more details: The exact behavior of both commands are defined in the `makefile`.

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make clean make

The compiled binary can be found in the ../bin directory and can be executed as follow

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cd ../bin/aarch64-linux/ ./test_halcon_sw_trigger

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The other examples `test_halcon_live_view` and `test_halcon_aniso_test` or your own project as discribed in the next section can be build from source in the same way.

Building your own HALCON examples:

Prepare Makefiles

Possibly the easiest way is to copy the complete folder of one of the examples and rename it to your project name.

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cd /home/root/040530_test_halcon/cpp/ mkdir your_project_name cp -vr test_halcon_sw_trigger/* your_project_name

Now you can edit and rename the given source file from the director your_project_name/source/ or simply replace it by your own cpp file.

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On will get a well-arranged file structure if you use the `make clean` command before further editing your project director. On can achive this by executing the commands below.

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cd /home/root/040530_test_halcon/cpp/your_project_name/makefiles/ make clean

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cd /home/root/040530_test_halcon/cpp/your_project_name/source/ mv test_halcon_sw_trigger.cpp your_source_file_name.cpp

Tip
Since you are analysing an monochrome image sensor it is important to use a monochrome pixel fomat. Therefore the given examples do all show how to configure the pixel format in source code. Like the listening from `test_halcon_sw_trigger.cpp` below.

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try
{
	acqdevice.SetFramegrabberParam("PixelFormat", "Mono8");
}
catch (HException &except)
{
	cout << "---> PixelFormat failed!\n";
	cout << "---> Cause: " << except.ErrorMessage() << "(HALCON error " << except.ErrorCode() << ")\n";
	cout << "---> CloseFramegrabber!\n";
	acqdevice.CloseFramegrabber();
	return except.ErrorCode();
}

You also need to edit the makefile as discribed below at line 38 by the name of your cpp source file.

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#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# makefile
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# HALCON/C++ examples
#
# ATTENTION:
#
#   This makefile uses gmake syntax and works only with gmake, therefore.
#   On Windows systems you can use nmake with the file makefile.win 
#   which is also provided in this directory
#   The executables are created in the directory 
#   $(HALCONEXAMPLES)/cpp/console/bin$(CONF_SUFFIX)/$(HALCONARCH)
#
# Copyright (c) 1996-2019 by MVTec Software GmbH
#                            www.mvtec.com
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The makefile can be used in the following way:
#    gmake all
#    gmake all XL=1
#    gmake allxl
#    gmake clean
#    gmake <program>
#    gmake <program> XL=1
#    gmake PROG=<program>
#    gmake PROG=<program> XL=1
#    gmake PROG=<program> clean
# Optionally the STATE variable can be set to release or debug, e.g.
#    gmake STATE=debug all
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
#  Make sure that the following environment variables are set correctly:
#    - HALCONROOT
#    - HALCONARCH 
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# -- common stuff -------------------------------------------------------------

PROG           = your_source_file_name

ifndef BASE_DIR
BASE_DIR       = ../
endif
ifndef MAKE_DIR
MAKE_DIR       = $(BASE_DIR)makefiles/
endif
ifndef MAKE_FILE
MAKE_FILE      = makefile
endif

ifndef SRC_DIR
SRC_DIR        = $(BASE_DIR)source/
endif

Using make command

Navigate into the makefile directory and execute the make command.

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cd /home/root/040530_test_halcon/cpp/your_project_name/makefiles make

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You may need to remove your binaries were builed built before by execute the command `make clean` before.

The binary can be found now in the ../bin directory and can be executed by the commands below.

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cd ../bin/aarch64-linux/ ./your_source_file_name

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Introduction

HALCON for ARM-based Platforms

Chapter 1 Using HALCON on ARM-based Platforms

Chapter 2 Getting Started

Chapter 3 Creating Applications

HALCON Examples on iam camera

Structure of the test_HALCON folder:

Description of samples:

test_halcon_aniso_test:

test_halcon_live_view:

test_halcon_sw_trigger:

Execute one of the provided HALCON examples

Compiling the provided HALCON examples

Build e.g. the software trigger example

Building your own HALCON examples:

Prepare Makefiles

Using make command

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