Installing SoQt For Mac

SoQt is a library that provides the glue between Systems in Motion's Coin high-level 3D visualization library and Trolltech's Qt 2D user interface library. This pages provides instruction regarding how to install SoQt in your computer.

Before installing SoQt, please, verify that Qt and Coin 3D are already installed and functioning on your PC. If they are not, install them firs by following the corresponding installation procedures Installing Qt For Mac and Installing Coin3D For Mac.

Details

Download the latest realese of SoQt, currently SoQt-1.5.0, from the Coin3D website at http://www.coin3d.org/lib/plonesoftwarecenter_view. Place it into the desktop.

Open a shell console and navigate to desktop and extract the archive by typing:

tar -xvf SoQt-1.5.0.tar

This will create a directory called SoQt-1.5.0 in your user directory. Using the shell navigate to just created SoQt-1.5.0 directory. First create release libraries by typing:

./configure --enable-debug=no  --enable-symbols=no --with-qt=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.7.0 --with-coin=/usr/local --without-framework

This will start the configuration process. Depending on your computer, this process may take some time to finish. When it does, install the simage libraries by typing:

make 
make install

At the end of the installation process, the libraries have been installed at /usr/local directory. Now, Marble installation can be started.

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