README

pcl_io_extra
By Adam Stambler of Carnegie Mellon University

This is a package of additional io modules for PCL. 
It is meant to make it easier to just take a random point cloud file
and read it into your PCL program.  

Reader Support
PTX
E57
LAS

Write Support:




--------------Library Requrements-------------------

Xerces
Both E57 and LAS use Xerces.  You want Xerces 3.0 or greater.

sudo apt-get install libxerces-c-dev



LAS Support requires liblas.  
You can get liblas from : http://liblas.org/index.html

git clone git://github.com/libLAS/libLAS.git liblas

Do not use the debian install for Ubuntu 
The debian install on 11.10 is too old.  


E57 
E57 support depends on libe57 ( http://www.libe57.org/)

You need to compile your own E57:

svn co https://e57-3d-imgfmt.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/e57-3d-imgfmt/trunk e57refimpl