OpenSlide on Windows

Getting OpenSlide for Windows

Precompiled binaries

Regular releases are available from theOpenSlide website.

Building from source

OpenSlide is built for Windows usingMinGW-w64. The easiest way to buildOpenSlide and its dependencies is by usingopenslide-bin,which can run on Linux or Windows in a Docker container.

Python

OpenSlide Python is not included in the OpenSlide binary distributions,but prebuilt wheels areavailable on PyPI. Install withpip install openslide-python and make sure OpenSlide isadded to the DLLsearch path withos.add_dll_directory().

Using OpenSlide on Windows

Optional components

If you distribute a program that uses OpenSlide, you may wish to omit theseutility programs:

• openslide-quickhash1sum.exe
• openslide-show-properties.exe
• openslide-write-png.exe
• slidetool.exe

These binaries are only necessary if you use OpenSlide Java:

• openslide.jar
• openslide-jni.dll

Files with names ending in.debug contain debug symbols for GDB, and canalso be omitted.

Licensing

If you distribute OpenSlide binaries, you are also required to distributethe corresponding source code for OpenSlide and some of its dependencies.The exact license terms for each component are included in thelicensesdirectory of OpenSlide binary distributions. Complete corresponding sourcesfor official builds and nightlies are distributed in the-winbuild Zipfile alongside the binary Zips.

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