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<H2><A NAME="s1">1.</A> <A HREF="partiview.html#toc1">Installation</A></H2>
<P>This release has been tried on Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.), Mac OS X, Irix and Windows.</P>
<P>partiview needs two libraries to compile: OpenGL (or MESA) for the
drawing operations, and FLTK for the graphical user interface.
These libraries are known to work on MS-Windows as well as many Unix flavors.</P>
<H2><A NAME="ss1.1">1.1</A> <A HREF="partiview.html#toc1.1">OpenGL (possibly via Mesa)</A>
<P>Most platforms will have it installed already, whether as libMesaGL or libGL.
Our <CODE>configure</CODE> script (see below)
should take care of the two possible options.</P>
<A HREF="http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/">http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/</A></P>
<P>Redhat packages: (part of powertools I believe)</P>
<H2><A NAME="ss1.2">1.2</A> <A HREF="partiview.html#toc1.2">FLTK</A>
<P>Also make sure <CODE>FLTK</CODE> is installed, from fltk.org.
FLTK versions 1.1.x (e.g. 1.1.7, 1.1.9, ...) work.
FLTK 2 will not work with partiview.</P>
<P>If you're not sure whether you already have it, try</P>
% locate libfltk.a
% locate Fl_Slider.h
<P>(you only need it if you want to recompile partiview at some point,
not if you just want to run it, since FLTK is built-in to partiview binaries.)</P>
<A HREF="http://www.fltk.org/">http://www.fltk.org/</A></P>
<P>Find rpms:
<A HREF="http://rpmfind.net">http://rpmfind.net</A></P>
<P> FLTK is under continuous development. Versions from 1.1.1 through
1.1.9 have been successfully tested with partiview. Some problems
with other versions exist, but 1.1.4 is also known to work.</P>
<H2><A NAME="ss1.3">1.3</A> <A HREF="partiview.html#toc1.3">partiview</A>
<P>You can decide to use a branded version, usually available as a tar or zip file,
or use the CVS (see below).
Extract the tarball, and install the program from within the
<CODE>src</CODE> directory:</P>
% cd partiview-0.6/src
% make depend (might need to make new local dependancies)
% make partiview (should not have to edit Makefile anymore)
</P>
<P>If you encounter difficulties of locating either the FLTK or MESA/OpenGL
libraries, configure script options can specify them:
<CODE>--with-fltk=</CODE><I>dirname</I> names the directory which contains the
<CODE>lib</CODE> and <CODE>FL</CODE> subdirectories, <CODE>--with-mesa=</CODE><I>dirname</I>
can specify the Mesa installation directory [??], and
<CODE>--with-kira=</CODE><I>dirname</I> names the Starlab directory, whose default
value is taken from environment variable STARLAB_PATH if that is set.</P>
<H2><A NAME="ss1.4">1.4</A> <A HREF="partiview.html#toc1.4">CVS</A>
<P>The current source code of <CODE>partiview</CODE> is always available from CVS,
with public anonymous read-only access. Occasionally we stamp out a
packaged release, too, but looking to CVS is best.</P>
<P>(Partiview developers can request a non-anonymous CVS account
from Peter Teuben -- <CODE>teuben@astro.umd.edu</CODE>.)</P>
<P>Currently the CVS repository machine is <CODE>cvs.astro.umd.edu</CODE>.
Here's a sample session with some commonly used CVS commands:</P>
setenv CVSROOT :pserver:anonymous@cvs.astro.umd.edu:/home/cvsroot
cvs login (only needed once, and only for pserver type access)
cvs checkout partiview # get a new local sandbox to work in, or
cd partiview # goto the root directory of partiview
cvs -n -q update # check if others had made any changes
cvs update # if so, update your sandbox and/or resolve conflicts
cd partiview/src # goto the 'src' directory of partiview
./configure --with-fltk=/some/where/fltk-1.1.something/ ...
emacs partibrains.c # edit some files
cvs update # if so, update your sandbox again, resolve conflicts
cvs commit # and commit your changes
</PRE>
<HR>
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
</P>
<H2><A NAME="ss1.5">1.5</A> <A HREF="partiview.html#toc1.5">Compiling under Windows</A>
</H2>
<P>Partiview can be compiled from the command line on Windows using either the
Microsoft Visual C tools (<CODE>cl, nmake,</CODE> etc.) or using <CODE>gcc/g++</CODE> with
<CODE>MinGW32, MSYS and w32api</CODE>. The MinGW route is currently the only way
to compile with kira/Starlab support. There's no provision for building
partiview within the MS Visual Studio GUI.</P>
<P>To compile with Microsoft C:</P>
<P>
<OL>
<LI> Install FLTK using MS Visual C++ as described in its documentation.</LI>
<LI> Unpack the <CODE>partiview</CODE> distribution from its tarball or via CVS.</LI>
<LI> Edit the file <CODE>partiview/src/partiview.mak</CODE>,
changing <CODE>FLTK_DIR</CODE> as appropriate.</LI>
<LI> Run the <CODE>vcvars32.bat</CODE> script from the Developer Studio <CODE>Bin</CODE>
directory; this will set the MSVCDIR environment variable,
add the <CODE>Bin</CODE> directory to PATH, etc.</LI>
<LI> In the <CODE>partiview/src</CODE> directory, compile with
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
nmake -f partiview.mak
</PRE>
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
Dependencies are <I>not</I> properly maintained by this Makefile, so
use <CODE>nmake -f partiview.mak clean</CODE> if you change anything.</LI>
</OL>
</P>
<P>To compile with MinGW and company, you'll need to:
<OL>
<LI> Install <CODE>MinGW</CODE> (gcc, etc.), its associated <CODE>w32api</CODE>
libraries and header files, and the <CODE>MSYS</CODE> suite of
UNIX-like tools. All three packages are available at:
<A HREF="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/">http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/</A>
Unpack the .zip or .tar archives of MinGW and w32api;
both packages are intended to live in the same directory.
The MSYS package comes as a self-extracting archive and
can be extracted into a different directory as desired.
(But don't attempt to merge the MSYS <CODE>bin</CODE> directory contents
into <CODE>mingw/bin</CODE>.)</LI>
<LI> Add both the MSYS <CODE>bin</CODE> subdirectory and MinGW <CODE>bin</CODE>
subdirectory to the Windows PATH environment variable,
with the MSYS directory coming earlier, e.g. in a command window
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
set path=%path%;C:\util\msys\1.0\bin;C:\util\mingw\bin
</PRE>
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
or the analogous setting of PATH using (on WinNT/2000 at least)
<CODE>My Computer -> Control Panel -> System -> Environment</CODE>
to make a permanent change to PATH.
</LI>
<LI> Use MinGW to build FLTK. (FLTK 1.1.x, e.g. 1.1.9, works with partiview. FLTK 2.0 won't work.
Not sure about versions in between.) Unpack the FLTK source distribution and say
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<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
sh configure
make
</PRE>
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
</LI>
<LI> Build the Starlab libraries, if desired:
<OL>
<LI>You may need to install CVS for Windows. Binary packages
are available; follow the Win32 link on
<A HREF="http://www.cvshome.org/downloads.html">http://www.cvshome.org/downloads.html</A>.
Put the resulting cvs.exe file into the PATH somewhere.
</LI>
<LI>Use CVS to checkout the Starlab sources into some directory:
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
cd C:\some\where
set CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.astro.umd.edu:/home/cvsroot
cvs login
cvs checkout starlab
cd starlab
</PRE>
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
</LI>
<LI>Copy <CODE>templates\starlab_setup.bat</CODE> to
<CODE>local\starlab_setup.bat</CODE>, and edit it.
Change the first two <CODE>set</CODE> commands: set <CODE>STARLAB_PATH</CODE>
to the installation directory -- in the above example,
<CODE>set STARLAB_PATH=C:\some\where\starlab</CODE>.
Also optionally update (or remove) <CODE>set PATH=...</CODE>
to add MSYS and MinGW <CODE>bin</CODE> directories to it.</LI>
<LI>From a Windows command window, type
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
local\starlab_setup
make libs
</PRE>
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
</LI>
<LI>If successful, you should find in the <CODE>lib</CODE> directory
the files <CODE>libdstar.a libdyn.a libnode.a librdc.a libsstar.a libstd.a libtdyn.a</CODE></LI>
</OL>
</LI>
<LI>Now, back in the <CODE>partiview/src</CODE> directory,
use <CODE>configure</CODE> and <CODE>make</CODE> as under Unix.
The MSYS package imposes its own UNIX-like syntax for Windows pathnames,
which you'll need to use as arguments to configure and friends,
with forward- instead of backslashes and a /<I>drive-letter</I> prefix.
Also, if typing to a Windows command-window, shell scripts like
<CODE>configure</CODE> must be explicitly fed to <CODE>sh</CODE>.
Thus for example if FLTK is installed in <CODE>C:\util\fltk-1.1.9</CODE>
and Starlab is in <CODE>F:\src\starlab</CODE>, then you might build
partiview by typing
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
sh configure --with-fltk=/c/util/fltk-1.1.9 --with-kira=/f/src/starlab
make
</PRE>
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
Note there's no need to specify the location of the OpenGL or other
libraries; the configure script and MinGW tools already know
where to find those. Omit the "--with-kira=..." if you're not using Starlab.</LI>
</P>