Linux System Setup

For developing iMEDgine you need to install several libraries:

QT 4, latest stable version from http://www.trolltech.com/ ITK, latest stable version from http://www.itk.org/ Coin, latest stable version from http://www.coin3d.org/lib/coin SoQT?, cvs version, see below or http://www.coin3d.org/lib/soqt/cvs SimVoleon?, latest stable version from http://www.coin3d.org/lib/simvoleon

Use your package management system or install it manually

Take care that you have openGL Support enabled, usually you will need a libgl-mesa-dev and the xlibs-dev package

Use the latest CMake from the website as it is intensively developed at the moment.

Download and extract it, then run

      ccmake .
      

in the respective directory and disable BUILD_EXAMPLES and BUILD_TESTING. This greatly reduces needed space on your harddisk and compile time.

Then run

      cmake .
      make
      make install
      

When installing Coin don't forget to make it threadsafe:

      ./configure --enable-threadsafe
      make
      make install
      

As of July 31 2006 there was no stable version of SoQT released that is able to work with QT 4. Therefore it is necessary to use the following cvs snapshot: SoQt-20060322.tar.gz

Before compiling check the QTDIR enviroment variable. It should point to your qt4 location, for example /usr/lib/qt4/ To do so (temporaly) execute:

      QTDIR='/usr/lib/qt4/'
      export QTDIR
      

Furthermore SoQT expects that the include and lib directories are subdirectories of QTDIR, which is not always the case with qt4. Change into QTDIR and create a softlink to the actual include and lib paths. An example:

      ln -s /usr/include/qt4/ include
      ln -s /usr/lib/qt4/ lib
      
      ./configure
      make
      make install
      

To install SimVoleon simply execute:

      ./configure
      make
      make install