Installation Windows

Here you find the instruction to install ViiM in your Windows machine. The installer is a sequence of small installers of dependencies required by ViiM and ViiM itself. These instructions are split in steps, corresponding to each installer.

Once the download has completed, you will find ViiM setup on the path of your choice. Its icon will be something like this: Figure 1. ViiM's executable. Double click ViiM's icon. The installer automatically checks for equal or subsequent versions of openNI installed in the system. If it finds one, the installer will go through to the third step, or else the following window will show up. Just click Install to enter the openNI installation screen and always click next until the end. Figure 2. OpenNI installation. After the installation of openNI, the installer will check for PrimeSense's sensor drivers in the system. If drivers are found in the system, the installer will go to the fourth step; if it doesn't the following window will appear. Just click Install (and then click next until the end of PrimeSense's drivers installation) if you want to install these drivers or if you don't just press cancel and go through to the Kinect drivers installation. You can have both drivers installed in the system.  Figure 3. PrimeSense drivers installation. Next, if you don't have the Kinect drivers in the system, you will be asked to install it. Just like in the third step, if you don't have a Kinect you can press cancel to go to the next step or press install otherwise (click next on the new window to install kinect drivers). Remember that you can have both drivers installed in the system.  Figure 4. Kinect drivers installation. Now you will finally be asked to install the ViiM SDK if it's not found on the system. Click next to install it. Figure 5. ViiM installation. In the end you will be asked to install the Visual Studio Runtime Library if the installer doesn't find it in the system or its version is previous to the one on the installer. Again click next until the end.</li></ol> Figure 6. Visual Studio RunTime installation. If everything went correctly, then you are ready to work with the ViiM SDK. Head to the tutorials and technical documents sections of this wiki for deep information on developing with ViiM. And download the samples if you haven't yet. NOTE: After installation, when you try to run a sample, it is possible that you might bump into this error:

error.png
This is not supposed to happen, but because it appeared in one of our computers, here's the reason and solution. Depending on the user permissions on your system, the environment variables installed during ViiM's setup might no be seen. So just log off and log back in and the problem will be gone!