v26.5.2-beta.1 | OpenUSDKit

_{SwiftUSD v26.5.2-beta.1}

^{OpenUSDKit & apple/SwiftUsd integration}

Changelog

Changes

• Featuring OpenUSDKit - a unified cross-platform Swift API for OpenUSD, this is a direct replacement for the PixarUSD target.
• Integrates apple/SwiftUsd within OpenUSDKit and brings precompiled binaries for Darwin platforms by default, use the environment variable SWIFTUSD_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE=1 if you prefer to build from source and match the behavior on all other platforms (Android, Linux, and Microsoft Windows).
• Note: some work still needs to be done to clean up some API differences between the two compilation contexts, which is why this is a pre-release.

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Thank you

• @meshula
• @dgovil
• @brechtvl
• @stackotter
• @gracien-app
• @scott-wilson
• @obvgab
• @felfoldy
• Pixar's OpenUSD contributors

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Usage

To use this release of USD in your swift project, add the following to the dependencies section in your Package.swift file:

// swift-tools-version: 6.1

dependencies: [
  .package(url: "https://github.com/wabiverse/swift-usd.git", from: "26.5.2-beta.1")
]

Linux

For Linux, these are the only dependencies required, as MetaverseKit provides everything else.

Tip

If you are on a distro like Ubuntu there is a good chance you already have most of these installed.

Dependency	CentOS	Ubuntu
BZ2	bzip2-devel	libbz2-dev
ZLib	zlib-devel	zlib1g-dev
FreeGLUT	freeglut-devel	freeglut3-dev
DEFLATE	libdeflate-devel	libdeflate-dev
Expat	libexpat-devel	libexpat1-dev
Xcursor	libXcursor-devel	libxcursor-dev
Xt	libXt-devel	libxt-dev
Xi	libXi-devel	libxi-dev
Xinerama	libXinerama-devel	libxinerama-dev
Xrandr	libXrandr-devel	libxrandr-dev