Taken a few days ago leaving home on my way to work, with my new Nikkor 35mm f1.8 prime lens.

Stitched together with Hugin out of five upright photos. Have a look at this photo on Flickr, too.

Three exposures aligned, fused and blended with hugin 0.8.0

There is a very good step by step tutorial how to build hugin on Ubuntu which can be applied on debian, too. Although, there are some issues:

• libpano13 is available now in debian unstable. So you don’t have to build it on your own. Just install the pacage libpano13-dev.
• wxwidgets2.8 is also available. But you have to make sure to uninstall all 2.6 versions you might have installed, hugin will not compile the gui components if it 2.6 is found. You will get a cmake output similar to this:

  -- Found wxWidgets: TRUE
  wxWidgets 2.6.x not supported
  wxWidgets was not found, GUI programs (hugin, nona_gui) disabled
  

• libboost_thread.so is not available. The new library file in debian unstable is called libboost_thread-mt.so. It works anyway if you create a symlink:

  sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libboost_thread-mt.so \
       /usr/lib/libboost_thread.so

That’s it.

Although, there seems to be a bug with libdrm-intel. It crashes while creating the control points.

../../../libdrm/intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c:712: Error preparing buffer
map -1261963602 ((null)): Invalid argument .
hugin: vbo/vbo_save_api.c:216: map_vertex_store: Assertion
`vertex_store->buffer' failed.
Aborted

This is due to the GL fast preview I assume. Without this preview it works fine anyways, you don’t need this.

Update: And after upgrading some packages (on debian unstable) and recompiling it works without error. Not sure what caused this error.

By the way, if you want install hugin 0.8.0 on Windows, you can use a prerelease installer. It works on Windows XP, too. There is more information in the hugin blog.