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The source code archive for Coin comes with Microsoft Visual Studio files
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for building and installing the Coin library. Visual Studio 6, Visual
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Studio 7.1, and Visual Studio 8 are supported. For 7.0, you need to upgrade
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the 6 projects, but probably use the 7.1 config-*.h headers.
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Studio 7.1, and Visual Studio 8 are supported. For 7.0, you might need to
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upgrade the 6 projects, but probably use the 7.1 config-*.h headers.
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At the last stage of the build, the Coin development kit is automatically
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installed into the directory the COINDIR environment variable points to.
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Control Panel => System => Advanced => Environment Variables
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and make sure you create that directory before starting the build - if the
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variable isn't set or the directory doesn't exist, the installation will
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and make sure you create that directory before trying to install Coin - if
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the variable isn't set or the directory doesn't exist, the installation will
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break and you won't get a functional SDK. Using the source hierarchy as
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the SDK is not recommended - let Coin be installed, and use COINDIR from
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your other projects that use Coin.
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For Microsoft Visual Studio 6, you will find the complete build file setup
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in the directory "build/msvc6/". Open the dsw file.
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in the directory "build/msvc6/". Open the coin2.dsw file.
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For Microsoft Visual Studio 7.1, you will find the complete build file
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setup in the directory build/msvc7/. Open the sln file.
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setup in the directory build/msvc7/. Open the coin2.sln file.
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For Microsoft Visual Studio 8, you will find the complete build file setup
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in the directory build/msvc8/. Open the sln file.
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in the directory build/msvc8/. Open the coin2.sln file.
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There are four different configurations in the project files. DLL,
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release and debug, and LIB, release and debug. The LIB targets are new
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as of july 2005 and hardly testet. Consider them experimental until
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this file says otherwise. The static libraries you build with those
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configurations are not installed at the end of the build process - only
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the DLLs are installed (into COINDIR). If you need to use the static
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libraries, you need to copy them into COINDIR/lib manually, and also
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make sure you set the COIN_NOT_DLL define in your other projects.
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release and debug, and LIB, release and debug.
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The workspace/solution is divided into several projects:
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* The base "coin2"-project is for compiling the library.
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* The "coin2_install"-project is for performing the installation procedure.
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* The "coin2_uninstall"-project is for deleting the installed files again.
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Note that the Coin installation is fully contained inside COINDIR (no
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registry entries or any such things) so just deleting COINDIR is just
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* The "coin2_docs"-project builds the Coin API reference documentation and
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places it in Coin\build\html\ (source hierarchy). For this to work, you
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must install the Windows version of Doxygen (www.doxygen.org), preferably
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in the default C:\Program Files\doxygen\ location.
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Tuning The Coin Library
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There are certain settings you can adjust before building Coin to tune
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Coin better for your intended usage. All of these settings are contained
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in the private header file "setup.h". Read through and edit this file
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manually if you think you ought to build Coin in a non-default way.
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in the private header file "setup.h" (in the "coin2"-project, look for
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"Private Headers" / "[setup] headers" / "setup.h"). Read through and
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edit this file manually if you think you ought to build Coin in a non-
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Be aware that the setups under the build/ directory may be out of sync with
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the regular sources from time to time if you follow the source development
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through CVS updates. If this happens, it's just an oversight on our behalf.
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Just notify coin-support@coin3d.org and they will be synchronized again
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Just notify <coin-support@coin3d.org> and they will be synchronized again
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within a day or two.
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There are a couple of known problems with the project files:
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- header files are listed multiple times (annoying, but harmless).
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- there's no way to build without executing the subsequent installation
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step (you can disable the post-build rule, of course).
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There are a couple of known issues with the project files:
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- header files are in some places listed multiple times (annoying, but
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- we build in Visual Studio 8.0 without the _CRT_NO_DEPRECATE define but
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have not resolved the issues with the "deprecations" yet, so there are
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a lot of warnings while building Coin.
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