Installing IRIX 6.5.x
Our system administrator does the IRIX installations. The basics are the following:
- IRIX version 6.5.3 or newer is required. We recommend always having the latest maintenance release.
- MIPSpro Compilers 7.3.1.3m or newer.
Extras
The following lists extra packages that should or must be installed for using VR Juggler. Some requirements vary depending on what you want to do with VR Juggler. For example, if you do not want to build it from its source code, you can ignore requirements related to that process.
Many of these dependencies are available from http://freeware.sgi.com/
Required
- GNU make 3.78.1 or newer (for building sample applications).
- Java Development Kit 1.4 for building the Java code or Java Runtime Environment 1.4 for executing pre-built Java code.
- Note that with the latest Juggler code, the IRIX JDK 1.3 no longer works. This is an IRIX-specific problem.
- If you want to build VR Juggler from its source, the build system requires the following:
- Autoconf 2.53 or newer.
- Automake 1.6 or newer.
- Perl 5.6.0 or newer.
- If you are building a version of VR Juggler released after January 28, 2004, you need to have the following compiled and installed:
- Boost 1.31.0
- To compile Boost, you need bjam (boost-jam)
- CppDOM 0.3.0 or newer
- To compile !CppDOM, you need SCons.
- Boost 1.31.0
- To compile the Java code, we require the following:
- OpenORB: http://openorb.sourceforge.net/ (only if using a version of the JDK older than 1.4.0)
JDOM is needed if working with a version of VR Juggler 1.½.0 released prior to October 15, 2003.
Recommended
Scene Graphs
- !OpenGL Performer 2.4 or newer: http://www.sgi.com/
- !OpenSG 1.2 or newer: http://www.opensg.org/
- Open Scene Graph 0.9.6 or newer: http://www.openscenegraph.org/
Audio Subsystems
To understand which Sonix plug-ins can be used on IRIX, refer to the Sonix plug-ins entry in the FAQ.
- AudioWorks for the Sonix AudioWorks plug-in
- OpenAL for the Sonix !OpenAL plug-in
- Audiere for the Sonix Audiere plug-in
Dependency Links
| Dep | Desc | Link | | IRIX 6.5.3 or newer | Up-to-date IRIX version | http://www.sgi.com | | MIPSpro Compilers 7.3.1.3m or higher | Most recent compilers are required to correctly compile C/C++ code. Earlier compilers have several bugs. | http://www.sgi.com | | Java 1.3+ Runtime Environment | Recent version of Java needed for for VRJConfig | | | gmake.3.79.1 | Standard GNU development tools for configuring a software project | sgi freeware | | autoconf.2.54 | Standard gnu development tool for compoiling software | sgi freeware | | automake.1.6.2 | Standard GNU development tool for configuring software | sgi freeware | | Perl 5.6 | Standard Perl distribution for dev and installation scripts | http://www.sgi.com |
| Application API specific dependencies
