Installing OpenSceneGraph

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OpenSceneGraph (OSG) is an essential prerequsite for osgART.

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osgART version 1.1

OSG version 2.2 or later is required, with OSG version 2.2 recommended.

Using a binary release of OSG is recommended. Binary installers are available from http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg/wiki/Downloads .

osgART version 1.0

OSG version 1.1 or later is required, with OSG version 1.2 recommended.

Using a binary installation of OSG is recommended. Binary installers for Windows (32 bit), Mac OS X, and Fedora Core 4 Linux are available directly from the OSG web site. OSG 1.2 download page. For other platforms, you should download and build OSG from source, following instructions on the OSG website.

Windows

A binary installer for OSG 1.2, with binaries built against MS Visual Studio .NET 2003 is distributed from the OSG website, and can be downloaded at [1].

For users who wish to link applications built with MS Visual Studio 2005 with OSG, we have built a binary installer for OSG which links correctly. This can be downloaded at [2].

By default, the installer places the root of the OSG install in the directory C:\Program Files\OpenSceneGraph. This value is then added to an environment variable $(OSG_ROOT), and this variable can be used in Visual Studio project files.

It is highly recommended that you add the actual OSG header and libary directories to the Visual Studio default search paths for all projects. This proceeds thus:

  1. From the "Tools" menu, choose "Options".
  2. The options window: In the left-hand pane, click on "Projects".
  3. Two groups are revealed: Click on the "VC++ Directories" group.The right-hand pane shows directories.
  4. Under the menu item "Show directories for:" choose "Include files".
  5. The box shows currently configured global include paths. Five buttons are shown above it. Click on the button marked with a shiny folder ("new"). Space to add a new path is added.
  6. In the box, type C:\Program Files\OpenSceneGraph\include
  7. Under the menu item "Show directories for:" choose "Library files".
  8. The box shows currently configured global include paths. Five buttons are shown above it. Click on the button marked with a shiny folder ("new"). Space to add a new path is added.
  9. In the box, type C:\Program Files\OpenSceneGraph\lib

Additionally, you should add the OSG binaries directory to the system path if you want it to automatically find the OSG plugins and DLLs.

Mac OS X

The OSG 1.2 Disk image is at [3].

The Disk image doesn't actually install the OSG files to any particular location, but it is recommended that you place the OSG Frameworks and Plugins onto a default system path. These are /Library/Frameworks and /Library/Plug-ins (for all users) or ~/Library/Frameworks and ~/Library/Plug-ins for only the current user.

Linux

The Fedora Core 4 binary packages are at [hhttp://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg/wiki/Downloads/FedoraCore4].

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