Software you will need to use the program. Links to the library to download: LAPACK MINPACK BOOST MIMAS Libserial provided on this web site. Troubleshootings: If you have problems using qmake check that you are using the right version (i.e. the qt4 one) on my computer: $which qmake /usr/bin/qmake and I should use: /usr/lib/qt4/bin/qmake Compilation problems: First install Lapack, Minpack and boost 1.33. When you configure mimas check that lapack and minpack have been found on your computer (1). After you have finished to compile the examples check that examples/camera_calibration/calibration is present (2). If mimas camera calibration example work and you still have compilation problem this probably mean that the problem come from the project itself. You can open the bright.pro file and specify the path of the include file or missing library according to your compilation error. For instance I have 2 versions of boost installed in my computer and I had to specify: INCLUDEPATH += . /usr/local/include/boost-1_33_1/ in bright.pro (1) If not and the library are installed you may look inside configure.log to check what has happened. Then by changing environment variable you might manage to solve your problem. For instance, I am using: env PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/qt4/bin LDFLAGS="-lgfortran" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/incl ude/boost-1_33_1/" ./configure --enable-debug=yes --disable-OSMesa --with-pkg-co nfig-path="/usr/lib/qt4/lib/" please do a post if this happen to you explaining the problem and how you solved it. (2) the likely reason why the example has not been compiled is that during the configuration process minpack or lapack hasn't been recognised. You may also have linking problem with qt4. (for more details see the corresponding Makefile.am) * If compilation has been succesfull and you don't manage to launch the application: ./bright: error while loading shared libraries: libmimas.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory then do: env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib ./bright