BWM801 : multi-threaded cross-platform application engine

Brian W. Mulligan (mailto:bwmulligan@astronaos.com)

This is version 1.0

Linux:

prerequisites:

• gnu-c++
• X11 (libX11-devel) # window system
• Mesa (mesa-libGL-devel and mesa-libGLU-devel) # OpenGL library
• mesa GLU () # gl utilities library
• freetype (freetype-devel) : font library
• ftgl (ftgl-devel) : API to use freetype with opengl
• libpng (libpng-devel) : API for reading and writing PNG files.

preparing for configure:

mkdir m4
libtoolize
aclocal
autoconf
automake --add-missing
autoreconf

configuring:

NOTE: you can use general standard configure options. e.g. use --prefix= to define the installation path

     ./configure

compiling & install:

make 
make install

running

• make sure that you are in the directory where your user shared library has been created
• make sure that libbwm801.la is in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH or the current directory
• make sure that bwm801-launcher is in your PATH

bwm801-launcher

Windows (using Visual Studio)

compiling:

• Open solution (BWM801.sln) in Visual Studio
• Build

running

• Place bwm801-launcher.exe, bwm801.dll, your user dll (e.g. bwm801-user-template.dll) in a single folder
• Any data files in that folder or approiate locations
• Lauch bwm801-launcher.exe