Dependencies of CGFLib

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• Windows/Visual Studio 2010
• Windows/Eclipse
• Ubuntu/GCC (Eclipse/Make)
• MacOS X

CGFlib relies on widely used OpenGL support libraries, namely:

• GLUT v3.7 / FreeGLUT (Original GLUT used in Win/VS2010, possibly to be replaced in the future by freeGLUT)
• GLUI v2.35
• GLExt v76
• GLEW v1.7.0

To be able to compile and link CGFlib and CGFlib-based applications, these dependencies must be installed and correctly configured in your development environment. For a Windows/Visual Studio 2010 setup, a package containing the headers and lib's/dll's precompiled is provided in the Downloads page. For most Linux/GCC-based systems, these can be installed from available packages repositories (such as Ubuntu/Debian repositories). For MacOS X these are also available, but we thank any contributors that would like to provide step-by-step instructions to install those dependencies.

Windows/Visual Studio 2010

The package containing windows 32-bit headers, lib's and dll's for the aforementioned dependencies is available in the Downloads page.

Unpack the file and check the README for instructions on how to install the files.

Windows/Eclipse

The following description assumes you have downloaded the Eclipse/MinGW dependencies zip file from the Downloads page, and uncompressed it. You should now have three folders: 'include', 'lib' and 'dll'.

If you have permissions to write to the 'include' and 'lib' folders of your Eclipse/MinGW installation (e.g. on your laptop):

• copy the content of the 'include' and 'lib' folders of the zip file to the corresponding folders of your installation.
• copy the contents of the 'dll' folder in the zip file to Windows' 'system32' or 'syswow64' folder (for 32 or 64-bits Windows) or, if you do not have permissions, to the 'bin' folder of your example project.

If you DO NOT have permissions to write to the 'include' and 'lib' folders of your Eclipse/MinGW installation (e.g. on the faculty's computer), you will have to place the dependencies in your projects' folders:

• make sure you already have your CGFlib and CGFexample folders uncompressed from the source package,
• copy the content of the 'include' folder of the dependencies zip file to the 'include' folder of your 'CGFlib' folder (not the 'CGFexample').
• copy the content of the 'include' and 'lib' folders of the dependencies zip file to the corresponding folders of your 'CGFexample' folder.
• copy the contents of the 'dll' folder of the dependencies zip file to the 'bin' folder of your 'CGFexample' folder.

Ubuntu/GCC (Eclipse/Make)

The required libraries can be instaled using apt-get:

sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev libglui-dev libglew-dev 

MacOS X

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