darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.

https://www.darktable.org/

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Supported platforms:

• Linux,
• Windows 8, 10,
• MacOS.

Compatible compilers:

• Clang: 8, 9, 10
• GCC: 8, 9, 10
• Mingw64: 6, 7

Hardware (minimal / recommended):

• RAM: 4 GB / 8 GB
• CPU: Intel Pentium 4 (64 bits, SIMD) / Intel Core i5 4×2.4 GHz (64 bits, SIMD)
• GPU: none / 1024 cores, 4 GB, OpenCL 1.2 compatible
• free disk space: 250 MB / 1 GB

Required dependencies minimal version:

• CMake 3.10
• Gtk 3.22
• Glib 2.40
• Sqlite 3.15 (but 3.24 strongly recommended)

Optional dependencies minimal version:

• OpenMP 4.5
• LLVM 3.9
• OpenCL 1.2
• Lua 5.3
• libavif 0.6.0
• WebP 0.3.0

Optional dependencies with no version requirement:

• Gphoto2
• Lensfun
• OpenEXR
• OpenJPEG
• Colord
• G'Mic

The master branch contains the latest version of the source code and is intended:

• as a working base for developers,
• for beta-testers to chase bugs,
• for users willing to sacrifice stability for new features without waiting for next release.

The master branch comes with no garanty of stability, might corrupt your database and XMP files, might result in loss of data and edits history, and temporarily break compatibility with previous versions and commits.

After backing up your ~/.config/darktable directory as well as the sidecar .XMP files of the pictures you will open with the master branch, you may get the source:

git clone https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable.git
cd darktable

darktable project releases one major version every year, for Christmas, tagged with even numbers, (like 2.2, 2.4, 2.6, 3.0). Minor revisions are tagged with a third digit (like 3.0.1, 3.0.2) and mostly provide bug fixes and minor new features. You may want to compile these stable releases yourself in order to get better performance for your particular computer:

git clone https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable.git
cd darktable
git fetch --tags
git checkout tags/release-3.0.2

Note that rawspeed is tracked via a git submodule, as well as OpenCL and LibXCF modules, so after checking-out the darktable, you need to update/checkout them,

git submodule init
git submodule update

darktable provides a shell script that automaticaly takes care of the building for classic cases in a single command.

./build.sh --prefix /opt/darktable --build-type Release --install --sudo

This builds the software for your own architecture only, with:

• -O3 optimization level,
• SSE/AVX support if detected,
• OpenMP support (multi-threading and vectorization) if detected,
• OpenCL support (GPU offloading) if detected,
• Lua scripting support if detected.

You can alternatively use the manual building to pass on custom arguments.

mkdir build/
cd build/
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/darktable/ ..
make
sudo make install

There is a comprehensive list of build instructions for Ubuntu/Debian related Linux distributions or for Fedora and related ones distributions. These build instructions could easily be adapted to all others distributions

Tip: Check that you have the latest gphoto2 library installed in order to support the newest cameras.

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