Chapter 1: Introduction

This chapter presents the features of the Matrox Imaging Library package. It also explains the installation process and how to run a Matrox Imaging Library application program.

• Introduction to MIL and MIL-Lite
• MIL and MIL-Lite modules
• MIL and the Intel SIMD technologies
• Requirements to run MIL
• • Under Windows
  • • Hardware requirements
    • Supported software
    • Web browser requirement for MIL help
    • Hibernate and standby/sleep modes
  • Under Linux
  • • Supported Linux distributions
    • Hardware requirements
    • Web browser requirement for MIL help
• Before you start
• Installation
• • Under Microsoft Windows
  • Under Linux
  • General installation notes
  • MIL Control Center
  • MILConfig utility
  • • Automatic updates
  • Matrox Intellicam
• Testing the installation
• • Communicating properly
• Compiling and linking
• • Compiler warnings for deprecated constants and functions
• The MIL User Guide and examples
• • Examples