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Set Up Your System for zenilib

• Instructions vary by development environment.

• Visual Studio

  These development tools must be installed on your workstation before you can begin using zenilib.

  These tools and SDKs are preinstalled on CAEN computers.

  • Visual C++ 2010 (Express)
  • DirectX SDK
  • OpenAL 1.1 Core SDK 3.05

  Note: It is now possible to work with Visual C++ and just the OpenAL redist installed. However, I recommend installing the DirectX SDK so that you can compile debug versions of the DLLs I provide to you.

• XCode

  • Xcode 3.2.x (or newer) must be installed on your workstation before you can begin using zenilib. It is preinstalled on CAEN and DCO computers.
  • TattieBogle's Xbox 360 Controller Driver for Xbox 360 Controller support.
  • You MUST NOT install the OpenAL SDK from http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/OpenAL_Installer_OSX.dmg
    
    • You should have a Framework located at /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenAL.framework
    • You should NOT have a Framework located at /Library/Frameworks/OpenAL.framework

• GCC

  • If you have administrative privileges on a system with apt-get:

    sudo apt-get install scons make gcc g++ libgl1-mesa-dev libtinyxml-dev libopenal-dev libglew1.5-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-net1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev
    sudo apt-get install kprof graphviz # if you want to profile your code
    sudo ldconfig
    

    Then install lib3ds-2.0

    wget -nv --retry-connrefused http://lib3ds.googlecode.com/files/lib3ds-20080909.zip
    unzip lib3ds-20080909.zip
    cd lib3ds-20080909
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install
    sudo ldconfig

  • Without root access, dependencies will have to be built manually. This is not recommended, and I provide no guarantees, but this script may be sufficient:

    wget -nv --retry-connrefused -O install.sh http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bazald/l/sources/install.sh && /bin/bash install.sh

    Warnings

    • This will add a lines to your .bash_profile and .bashrc files, sourcing $HOME/.zenilib_support/bashrc
    • $HOME/.zenilib_support/bashrc will nag you to reinstall if it detects missing directories, but it generally won't detect that a reinstall is necessary if you interrupt the compilation and installation process.
    • It is safe, though time consuming, to rerun the installer script using the command bash $HOME/.zenilib_support/install.sh
    • ~120 MB per architecture is required in $HOME/.zenilib_support/ as well as some extra space during compilation and installation.