To operate a Balluff imaging or image capture device with the Impact Acquire framework some common files are needed for every device on the target system:

libmvDeviceManager.so
libmvImageProcessing.so
libmvPropHandling.so

As the user-mode part of this SDK internally make use of OpenMP (http://openmp.org/), the OpenMP runtime package matching the operating system must be installed on the target system as well.

Apart from that this framework makes use of the Expat project and some of the libraries are linked with the Expat shipped with the installation package.To find out which files might need the Expat project please refer to the Which Shipped File Is Affected By Which License chapter. When the Expat project is needed it can either be shipped as in the original Impact Acquire installation package or it must be installed on the target system in a way the dynamic loader is able to find it.

All these files can be either be copied somewhere in the systems path or into the applications directory.

With these files the device can be used and configured from an application. Some features however require some additional installation work that will be discussed in later sections of this chapter.