General Unix Build Instructions for the VTP Software

1. Dependencies.  There are several libraries that the VTP uses, but fortunately many of them are already included in most flavors of Unix/Linux, and several of them are optional.   It's recommended to use the libraries that are already available in a repository for your operating system, for example, with the Package Manger on Ubuntu.
   Otherwise, if you prefer, you can download and build them yourself.
   
   

   Library	Version	Typical Repository Name	Library Website
   GDAL	2.0 or later	libgdal2-dev?	http://www.gdal.org/
   PROJ.4	4.4.9 or later	(installed by GDAL)	http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/
   OSG	3.0 or later	libopenscenegraph-dev	http://www.openscenegraph.org/
   wxWidgets	3.0 or later	libwxgtk3.0-dev	http://www.wxwidgets.org/
   libMini	8.9.2 or later	(none)	http://stereofx.org/terrain.html
   optional libraries:
   Libcurl	(any)	libcurl3	http://curl.haxx.se/
   Bzip2	(any)	libbz2-dev
   Squish	(any)	(none)
   QuikGrid	(any)	(none)

   
   
2. For each dependent library you build yourself, see in the build instructions included with each, but first read this advice:
   • If you are building wxGTK yourself, you'll want the OpenGL pieces to be built, so specify:
 --with-opengl
on the configure command-line.  You may also want to configure with:
 --enable-unicode
   • To build libMini, you may either:
     1. make sure you have csh or tcsh installed, then use
        ./build.sh
sudo ./build.sh install
     2. or, use CMake to configure and build it
      
3. To build VTP with CMake
   1. Run CMake (if you don't have it installed, it should be available from your package manager.)
   2. Tell if your source location (e.g. /home/me/vtp) and a place to build (e.g. /home/me/vtp/build)
   3. Fill in the location of all the dependencies.  It's OK to omit the optional libraries (netcdf, curl, bzip2, squish, quikgrid).
   4. Press "configure" and "generate"
   5. If you told CMake to generate IDE files, then use your IDE, otherwise go to your build folder and make.

If you encounter build problems, the vtp-unix mailing list exists to answer any questions.