Files for running Micro-manager 2.0 with python 3.X support on Windows

0. Download Anaconda (or your preffered python distro)

1. Check out micro-manager source from https://github.com/micro-manager.

2. Download Visual Studio Community 2017

3. Open Micro-manager.sln in Visual Studio Community 2017

4. Right-click MMCorePy_wrap in the Solution Explorer and click "Properties". Select "VC++ Directories" in the right pane and append this line to the Include Directories box:

;C:\Users\zack\Anaconda3\include;C:\Users\zack\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\include

Then, append this line to the "Library Directories" box:

C:\Users\zack\Anaconda3\libs;

5. If you get an error related to "inttypes.h", open "pyport.h" and replace "inttypes.h" with "stdint.h". This means modifying a python header file to accomidate VS2017. I don't really like this solution, but it does seem to work, and does not mess up your python install.

6. Close the property browser, right-click MMCorePy_wrap, and click build.

7. Open the output directory and copy the files [TODO] to a recent Micro-manager nightly install, such as:

C:\Program Files\Micro-Manager-2.0beta

0. Install Micro-manager 2.0 (a recent nightly should work)

1. Download or clone the files inside the MMCorePy directory into your micro-manager directory (Usually C:\Program Files\Micro-Manager2.0beta\ or similar)

2. Ensure you are running Python 3.6 (Using other verisons will NOT work as I have built this against python 3.6)

3. Run pip install numpy and optionally pip install jupyter if you will be using the notebook interface

4. In jupyter (or your own .py file), run the following:

# Append MM directory to path
import sys
sys.path.append('C:\\Users\\Zack\\Desktop\\Micro-Manager-2.0beta')
system_cfg_file = '\\path\\to\\your\\MM\\cfg\\file.cfg'

# For most devices it is unnecessary to change to the MM direcotry prior to importing, but in some cases (such as the pco.de driver), it is required.

prev_dir = os.getcwd()
os.chdir(mm_directory) # MUST change to micro-manager directory for method to work
import MMCorePy

# Get micro-manager controller object
mmc = MMCorePy.CMMCore()

# Load system configuration (loads all devices)
mmc.loadSystemConfiguration(system_cfg_file)
os.chdir(prev_dir)

# Success!
print("Micro-manager was loaded sucessfully!")