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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++ 2012 (Express) for Windows Desktop (Download) or Visual C++ 2010 (Express)
  • 7-Zip can create and extract .7z files.
  • OpenAL 1.1 Core SDK 3.05
  • Optionally, the Windows 8 SDK (Relevant bits previously included in the DirectX SDK)
  • Otherwise, the DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer (Download) may be required.

  The included DLLs are built for Visual C++ 2012.

  Note that the C++ applications built with Visual C++ 2012 will not run on computers running Windows XP, while C++ applications built with Visual C++ 2010 will.

  It is possible to work with just Visual C++ 2010. However, the OpenAL redist is required to get sound in OpenAL when compiling in Debug or when compiling 64-bit. (You can copy OpenAL.dll to zenilib/bin/d32/ to get around the Debug limitation.) Additionally, the DirectX Control Panel from the DirectX SDK can be useful.

• XCode

  • Xcode 4.2.x (or newer) must be installed on your workstation before you can begin using zenilib. It is preinstalled on CAEN and DCO computers.
  • Additionally, command-line tools should be installed from within Xcode.
  • Keka and The Unarchiver can extract .7z files.
  • TattieBogle's Xbox 360 Controller Driver for Xbox 360 provides controller support.
  • Img2icns is useful for creating new application icons.

• GCC

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

    sudo apt-get install lsb g++ p7zip-full   # required
    sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev     # if you want to build entirely from source (may still require LSB tools)
    sudo apt-get install ccache               # if you want faster rebuilds
    sudo apt-get install kcachegrind          # if you want to profile your code

  • If possible, install the LSB Linux App Checker and the LSB Software Development Kit (SDK). These are not needed for day-to-day development, but are required for wide distribution.

    Note, however, that lsbappchk 4.1.3-1 through 4.1.8-2 are broken. Also potentially of interest, see a bug using GCC 4.5 through 4.8 with ld.bfd.

    Download lsbappchk 4.1.2-1 i686 or lsbappchk 4.1.2-1 x86_64 instead.