3.3. Installation

This section is very important for a successful installation of Cal3D, so follow the steps carefully.

1. Make sure you unpack all the different Cal3D packages into the same directory. It is highly recommended that you create a separate directory for this.

2. The names of all the Cal3D packages are tagged with their version number. After unpacking the Cal3D library package, you have to strip the version number from the directory name. As example, unpacking Cal3D version 0.11 will result in a directory named cal3d-0.11 and should be renamed to cal3d. A symbolic link under *nix systems works too. All the packages depending on the Cal3D library fail to compile if this is not properly done!

3. The same procedure needs to be done for the example data package. As example, rename cal3d_data-0.11 to cal3d_data.

4. All the other package names do not need to be stripified, but you are free to do so.

At the end, you should have a directory structure like this:

  my_separate_cal3d_directory/
      cal3d/
      cal3d_cally-2.0/
      cal3d_data/
      cal3d_exporter-0.3/
      cal3d_miniviewer-0.9/
      ...