How to Compile SLIDE

	University of California, Berkeley EECS Dept, CS Division
Jordan Smith	SLIDE: Scene Language for Interactive Dynamic Environments	Prof. Carlo H. Séquin

How to Compile SLIDE

This page provides a "how to" guide for compiling SLIDE from a source distribution. SLIDE has been ported to a wide variety of platforms, and compilation has been made easier through GNU autoconf on UNIX.

Before You Start

Before trying to compile SLIDE you should do the following things:

Check for a binary release. Pre-compiled binary releases are available now for PCs, and IRIX UNIX. Binary releases are much easier to install than source releases. To find out whether a binary release is available for your platform, check the SLIDE Viewer page.

Pre-compile steps

Before compiling SLIDE, install the following libraries.

Scriptics' Tcl/Tk & iTcl/iTk
Available at the Scriptics Website
OpenGL API
Either the OpenGL
or the free Mesa 3D
TOGL Tcl/OpenGL Widget
Available at the TOGL Home page
A RenderMan Interface
We suggest Blue Moon Rendering Tools as a free RenderMan substitute

Configuring and Compiling on UNIX

Compiling SLIDE on UNIX has two steps: configure and make. In the simplest case you type the following commands to your shell:

 
cd slidesource
configure options
make depend
make all

Configure

The configure script tests your system for different compilation and linking options and generates a Makefile. The configure script is created by GNU autoconf.

Building with Make

After you configure your Makefile, type "make". Type "make depend" to update dependencies

Compiling for Windows

In order to compile SLIDE for Windows, you need the following items:

SLIDE 1.0 source distribution (or the latest patch release)
Visual C++ 5.x/6.x

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