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Ercan Akyürek edited this page May 21, 2017 · 12 revisions

This article will help you installing the required tools and libraries to build libnolimits.

macOS

Required tools

The easiest way to install the requirements is, to use a package manager like brew. If you don´t have brew installed on your machine, just run this command at a terminal prompt:

$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

You can now easily install the required tools cmake and pkg-config by executing

$ brew install cmake
$ brew install pkg-config

Required libraries

Zlib can also installed by using brew by executing

$ brew install zlib

Installing GLM library is little different:

$ curl -L https://github.com/g-truc/glm/releases/download/0.9.8.3/glm-0.9.8.3.zip -o glm-0.9.8.3.zip
$ unzip glm-0.9.8.3.zip
$ cd glm
$ cmake .
$ make
$ make install

Linux (Debian)

Required tools

We can use APT to install majority of the packages we need. You can install cmake and pkg-config with apt-get:

apt-get install cmake
apt-get install pkg-config

Required libraries

Zlib can also installed by using apt-get by executing

apt-get install zlib1g-dev

Installing GLM library is little different:

$ wget https://github.com/g-truc/glm/archive/0.9.8.3.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf 0.9.8.3.tar.gz
$ cd glm-0.9.8.3
$ cmake .
$ make
$ make install

Windows

Required tools

You can easily use the cmake installer:

Just execute the installer after downloading cmake for Windows.

Download the pkg-config binary archive for Windows and copy bin\pkg-config.exe to the directory where your cmake is located (e.g. C:\Program Files\CMake\bin):

I know this is not the best approach, maybe it makes more sense to modify the PATH Environment variable on your machine. If you know what you are doing, go ahead.

Preperation

Open cmd.exe and execute

mkdir C:\build-libnolimits
mkdir C:\build-libnolimits\usr\local

Required libraries

Now download the zlib and glm sources and unpack them into our freshly created directory C:\build-libnolimits:

You need to unpack the archives inner files to C:\build-libnolimits, so we end up with:

C:\build-libnolimits\zlib-1.2.11
C:\build-libnolimits\glm

Visual Studio

You need to open the Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2017 instead of cmd.exe.

zlib

cd C:\build-libnolimits\zlib-1.2.11
cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 Win64" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="C:\build-libnolimits\usr\local"
cmake --build . --config Release
Msbuild.exe INSTALL.vcxproj /p:Configuration=Release
ren C:\build-libnolimits\usr\local\lib\zlib.lib z.lib

glm

cd C:\build-libnolimits\glm
cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 Win64" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="C:\build-libnolimits\usr\local"
cmake --build . --config Release
Msbuild.exe INSTALL.vcxproj /p:Configuration=Release

MinGW / MSYS

zlib

cd C:\build-libnolimits\zlib-1.2.11
cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="C:\build-libnolimits\usr\local"
make
make install
ren C:\build-libnolimits\usr\local\lib\libzlib.dll.a libz.a

glm

cd C:\build-libnolimits\glm
cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="C:\build-libnolimits\usr\local"
make
make install
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