Instructions to build NaviTrack

Linux Users

Make directory: navitrack

• Create this directory anywhere you want on your machine
• This directory will be the root directory for your NaviTrack

Download NaviTrack source code

• Change directory to navitrack you just created
• Run the following command to check out NaviTrack source tree:

svn co --username ivs --password ivs https://ariser.uio.no/svn/navitrack/branches/nt-brp NaviTrack 

Configure NaviTrack for compiling

• In the directory navitrack, create a new directory NaviTrack-build. Now navitrack has two sub-directories: NaviTrack and NaviTrack-build
• Change directory to NaviTrack-build
• Run this command to configure NaviTrack:

cmake ../NaviTrack
(Note: Make sure you have CMake 2.4 or later installed on your system. If you don't, here is the website to get it: 
 http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Download.html)

Build NaviTrack

• To compile NaviTrack, in the same directory, e.g. NaviTrack-build, run:

make

Windows Users

Make directory: navitrack

• Create this directory anywhere you want on your machine
• This directory will be the root directory for your NaviTrack
• In navitrack, make a new directory NaviTrack where the source code will be downloaded to
• In the same directory, create a directory NaviTrack-build

Download NaviTrack source code

• If you don't RapidSVN on your machine, download and install it from here: http://www.rapidsvn.org/download/release/0.9.4/
• Run RapidSVN to check out NaviTrack source tree with the following parameters:
  • username: ivs
  • password: ivs
  • URL: https://ariser.uio.no/svn/navitrack/branches/nt-brp
  • Destination directory: your-path/navitrack/NaviTrack

Configure NaviTrack for compiling

• If you don't have CMake on your computer, download and install it (version 2.4.1 or later) from here: http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Download.html
• If you don't have a compiler on your computer, install Visual Studio or Developer studio 8 Visual C++ Express (this one is free: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/)

• Use CMake to configure NaviTrack. Make sure to write the configuration results into navitrack/NaviTrack-build

Build NaviTrack

• To compile NaviTrack, in the same directory, e.g. NaviTrack-build, run:

make

Windows Notes

Prerequisite software

You need to get the following packages prior to compiling NaviTrack. While still experimental, it should work on a properly configured windows environment. Current requirements are:

• Developer studio 8 Visual C++ Express which is free from Microsoft - be sure to install the Platform SDK and follow the ridiculous manual steps to set up the paths (see below).
  • Other releases of visual studio also work (7 and 7.1)
• Cygwin with the following packages
  • svn

• CMake (2.4.1 or later)

Information on Free Microsoft C++ Compiler on Windows

Be sure to follow all the steps on Microsoft link. Yes it means you need to download the compiler and sdk.

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/