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============================================================================ == BUILDING SOXT ON WINDOWS ==

Building SoXt on Windows is done by using the CMake build configuration. Check out the detailed build instructions in the INSTALL file of the Coin installation directory.

The Autotools build system is still maintained but at a significantly lower priority.

============================================================================ == OLD INFORMATION ON BUILDING SOXT ON WINDOWS ==

README

SoXt is an alternative to SGIs InventorXt library, which is a GUI binding for using Open Inventor with Xt/Motif. While SoXt has been developed for use with Coin, it is also possible to compile it against Open Inventor from SGI or TGS. A goal is to eventually become 100% source code compatible with the InventorXt library, which is still way off, especially when it comes to creating derived classes.

INSTALLATION

Installing SoXt is a matter of running the configure script with the right options, getting it to pass all its tests, and run "make install" afterwards. These two phases has each a set of common problems which will be gathered and described below.

The Configure Phase (running SoXt/configure)

The file INSTALL contains generic information about running the configure script. It's a good idea to have read that file one time or another, but it's the same file as in every other autoconf-based project and this one contains no extra information. Anyways, here are some common problems:

configure immediately tells you it can't find the source files

My guess is that you are trying to run configure from a separate build directory, and you have started SoXt/configure with a relative pathname that traverses some symbolic link. Configure doesn't handle that, so you can either cd into your build directory using the hard path, or you can use the absolute pathname for SoXt/configure
configure doesn't find Coin (or coin-config)

To detect Coin, configure looks for the script called coin-config, which is installed in bin/ where you installed Coin. You do probably not have that bin-directory in your PATH variable, so configure won't find where it is. The solution is to either add {Coin-prefix}/bin to $PATH, or you can run SoXt/configure with the "--with-coin={Coin-prefix}" option.