Instructions to build NaviTrack
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Linux Users
- Create this directory anywhere you want on your machine
- This directory will be the root directory for your NaviTrack
- 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
- 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)
- To compile NaviTrack, in the same directory, e.g. NaviTrack-build, run:
make
Windows Users
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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.