Folding@home Screensaver

Folding@home is a distributed computing project using volunteered computer resources.

This package contains the 3D screensaver. It can connect to local or remote FAHClients and visualize the running simulations.

See https://foldingathome.org/

Build Instructions

Build instructions are the same as for fah-viewer

Windows Build Instructions

To build this software you must also have the following source repositories:

• https://github.com/CauldronDevelopmentLLC/cbang
• https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-viewer

and the FAH_VIEWER_HOME and CBANG_HOME environment variables set to their root directories.

1. Install the free MSVC Express Edition or the Intel C++ complier.

2. Install Python 2.6 or newer.

3. Install the Subversion command line client.

4. Install Scons 1.2.0 or newer.

5. Build and install C! See: https://github.com/CauldronDevelopmentLLC/cbang#prerequisites

6. Install freetype http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.4.4.tar.bz2

   bzip2 -d "%HOMEPATH%\My Documents\Downloads\freetype-2.4.4.tar.bz2"
   tar xvf "%HOMEPATH%\My Documents\Downloads\freetype-2.4.4.tar"
   cd freetype-2.4.4
   # Build freetype-2.4.4\builds\win32\vc2008\freetype.sln
   cp objs\win32\vc2008\freetype244MT_D.lib freetype.lib
   

7. Install freeglut http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/freeglut/freeglut/freeglut-2.6.0.tar.gz

   gzip -d "%HOMEPATH%\My Documents\Downloads\freeglut-2.6.0.tar.gz"
   tar xvf "%HOMEPATH%\My Documents\Downloads\freeglut-2.6.0.tar"
   # Open \build\freeglut-2.6.0\VisualStudio2008Static\freeglut.sln in MSVC 2008
   # Build in Release mode
   cd freeglut-2.6.0
   cp VisualStudio2008Static\Release\freeglut_static.lib .
   

8. Build the package with scons

   cd fah-viewer scons

Windows Installation

To install the screensaver first build it, then copy FAHScreensaver.scr to the system directory:

copy FAHScreensaver.scr %windir%\System32