How can I add plugin QLAS_FWF_IO?

[yjf27281181]

I am a beginner.
To add this plugin, I was asked to provide 3 paths:LASLIB_DEBUG_LIBRARY LASLIB_INCLUDE_DIR LASLIB_RELEASE_LIBRARY. However, the guide that I found in the documentation said I should fill liblas path in there. I think there are some differences between liblas and laslib. So what should I do to load las data?

[daniel]

By default, CloudCompare uses libLAS to open LAS files. But libLAS is somehow deprecated and can only load LAS 1.1 and 1.2 files.

We recently added the QLAS_FWF_IO plugin which is based on LASlib. LASlib is able to load 1.3 files, notably with FWF data (FWF = Full Wave Form). This is a work in progress, and FWF data can't actually be used for anything right now. Therefore the plugin is only useful if you need to load LAS 1.3 files.

In a near future, the aim is to remove the libLAS support and replace it by the QLAS_FWF_IO plugin (= LASlib).

If you really want to compile QLAS_FWF_IO then you will indeed have to supply the right path for LASlib files. With Visual 2012 and 2013, you can compile it with the https://github.com/cloudcompare/LAStools fork.

[yjf27281181]

By default, CloudCompare uses libLAS to open LAS files. But libLAS is somehow deprecated and can only load LAS 1.1 and 1.2 files.

We recently added the QLAS_FWF_IO plugin which is based on LASlib. LASlib is able to load 1.3 files, notably with FWF data (FWF = Full Wave Form). This is a work in progress, and FWF data can't actually be used for anything right now. Therefore the plugin is only useful if you need to load LAS 1.3 files.

In a near future, the aim is to remove the libLAS support and replace it by the QLAS_FWF_IO plugin (= LASlib).

If you really want to compile QLAS_FWF_IO then you will indeed have to supply the right path for LASlib files. With Visual 2012 and 2013, you can compile it with the https://github.com/cloudcompare/LAStools fork.

So what I should do is to compile LasTools and then provide include and lib path to cmake, right?

[daniel]

Yes. In fact you only need to compile LASlib (see the Visual 2012 and 2013 solution files in the corresponding folder).