External Dependencies
From K-3D
Note: Depending on your platform, these dependencies may be managed for you. Check Getting Started to see if there's an article for your specific platform.
Required Libraries
- Boost - The high quality peer-reviewed C++ library collection.
- glibmm - The official C++ bindings for glib.
- OpenGL and OpenGLU - The standard for portable, hardware accelerated 3D graphics.
- libsigc++ 2.0 - A type-safe C++ callback system.
- expat or libxml2 - XML parsers (expat is preferred, because its API provides better error output during parsing).
- Zlib - A popular compression library.
- uuid
Strongly Recommended Libraries
Required for the standard K-3D graphical user interface plugin (the NGUI):
- gtkmm - The official C++ bindings for GTK2 (gtkmm 2.4 or-higher required).
- gtkglext - A binding between GTK2 and OpenGL.
Required for Python scripting functionality:
- Python - The Python scripting language (Python 2.4 or-higher recommended).
Strongly Recommended Applications
- Graphviz - Used by the GraphVizEngine to create diagrams of the Visualization Pipeline.
- CGKit - Provides a Python binding to the RenderMan interface that is extremely useful with Python scripting.
Optional Libraries
- Collada Dom for the collada plugin set. (Reader and Importer)
- Lib3ds for the 3DSMeshReader plugin
- Qt4 - Required to build the Qt graphical user interface plugin (a programming sample not useful in production).
- FreeType2 - Required to build the Freetype2 text plugin.
- Gnome-VFS - Required to build the Gnome integration plugin.
- ImageMagick - Required to build the ImageMagick plugins.
- libjpeg - Required to build the JPEG plugins.
- libpng - Required to build the PNG plugins.
- LibTIFF - TIFF image plugins.
- CGAL is used for boolean operations since 0.7. See CGAL Boolean Operations for instructions.
