2022/10/24 Posted in A/V, LINUX

DeadSix27 – WAIFU2X SOURCE BUILDING GUIDES

Requirements:

GCC 5+
CMake
OpenCL
OpenCV 3+ (required for the main binary/program, not the library)
On Arch you probably also need: gtk3 hdf5 vtk glew because something seems broken in their CV package.

Packages:

Intel GPUs:
- Arch: beignet
- Ubuntu: beignet-opencl-icd opencl-headers
AMD GPUs:
- Arch: opencl-mesa
- Ubuntu: mesa-opencl-icd opencl-headers ocl-icd-opencl-dev
nVidia GPUs:
- Arch: opencl-nvidia opencl-headers ocl-icd
- Ubuntu: ocl-icd-opencl-dev
nVidia GPUs (CUDA):
- Arch: cuda
- Ubuntu: nvidia-cuda-toolkit

Installing OpenCV from the Ubuntu Repository

sudo apt install libopencv-dev python3-opencv

# Optional Installing OpenCV from the Source
sudo apt install build-essential cmake git pkg-config libgtk-3-dev \
    libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libv4l-dev \
    libxvidcore-dev libx264-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libtiff-dev \
    gfortran openexr libatlas-base-dev python3-dev python3-numpy \
    libtbb2 libtbb-dev libdc1394-22-dev libopenexr-dev \
    libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev

Building:

git clone "https://github.com/DeadSix27/waifu2x-converter-cpp"
cd waifu2x-converter-cpp
mkdir out && cd out
cmake ..
make -j4
sudo make install

# If needed run sudo ldconfig after the install.
# manjaro: waifu2x-converter-cpp: error while loading shared libraries: libw2xc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
# add symlink /usr/local/lib/libw2xc.so to /usr/lib/libw2xc.so
ln -s ...

Qt Waifu 2x

A small frontend utility to make upscaling images easier. Requires waifu2x-converter-cpp (tanakamura or DeadSix27 versions).

sudo apt install qt5-image-formats-plugins imagemagick
git clone "https://github.com/cmdrkotori/qtwaifu2x.git"

# Start Qt Creator >=4.9.0-rc1 and open waifu2x-qtgui/waifu2x-qtgui.pro;
# missing? open terminal qtcreator
# Click on Configure Project;
# Wait a few seconds, then run the project (CTRL+R).

Little error: Open project and find "noise_scale" change to "noise-scale" and perfect.

Downloads only desktop file and icons.

Ubuntu 21.10
edit both files and rewrite the user name qtwaifu2x.sh and qtwaifu2x.desktop 
# no copy / no use slink build-qtwaifu2x-Desktop-Debug/qtwaifu2x to /usr/local/bin 
# copy my home qtwaifu2x.sh and make it executable
# copy qtwaifu2x.desktop to /usr/share/applications 
# Copy qtwaifu2x.png + svg to /usr/share/icons

! use only (run terminal or nautilus) local map: /home/user/git/build-qtwaifu2x-Desktop-Debug/qtwaifu2x
(otherwise nvidia and cuda option is missing)