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Portability Libraries.
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by Steve Baker.
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All the documentation and installation instructions
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are now online at:
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http://plib.sourceforge.net
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They are also downloadable - along with example
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programs and demos from the same site.
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SUPPORT:
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Please don't email me (Steve Baker) directly - I
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get *WAY* too much mail as it is! Instead, please
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sign up to the PLIB user's mailing list. Instructions
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can be found here:
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http://plib.sourceforge.net
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LICENSING:
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These libraries are offered as OpenSource freeware
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under the provisions of the GNU Library Public
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License (LGPL). Those terms and conditions are
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detailed in the file 'LICENSE' in this directory.
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I have added a short preamble to LGPL that removes
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no rights from ordinary users but offers special
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dispensation to allow PLIB to be used under certain
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commercial conditions (such as Games Consoles) where
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the constraints of LGPL are impossible to meet.
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| As a special exception Steve Baker gives permission to link these
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| libraries with proprietary software and distribute the resulting
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| executable without including that proprietary code in any distribution
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| as the LGPL would normally dictate.
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| This exception is ONLY granted in the case of an embedded system in
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| which there is no possibility of an end user re-linking or recompiling
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| against new versions of this library that may appear in the future.
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REQUIREMENTS:
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In addition to the libraries that I provide, you
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will also need OpenGL (OpenGL 1.1 or later -
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Mesa 3.0 or later) and GLUT (The OpenGL utilities
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toolkit - version 3.7 or later) and a hardware 3D
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graphics accellerator that supports OpenGL.
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WHAT DO YOU GET?
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The following libraries are provided:
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JS -- A Joystick interface.
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PUI -- A simple GUI built on top of OpenGL.
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SG -- Some Standard Geometry functions (vector and
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matrix math, spheres, boxes, frustra, etc)
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SL -- A Games-oriented Sound Library.
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FNT -- OpenGL texture-mapped font Library.
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PW -- A minimalist windowing library.
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PSL -- A C-like scripting language.
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SSG -- A Simple Scene Graph API built on top of OpenGL.
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NET -- Some Networking functions for games.
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UTIL-- Utilities - things that your OS would normally
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handle - but these functions are portable.
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SSGAUX -- Some optional additional high level features for SSG
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PUIAUX -- Some optional additional high level features for PUI
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DIRECTORY STRUCTURE:
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PLIB expects to be installed in one standard place:
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/usr/lib
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...with header files at:
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/usr/include/plib
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PORTABILITY and DEPENDANCIES:
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Although all these libraries are designed to be easily
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portable (and more importantly so that programs using
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them can be UTTERLY portable), some of them have not
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yet been ported to all operating systems.
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JS -- Currently Linux/Windows/BSD only.
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UL -- Should be portable to POSIX-compliant
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OS's ... and Windows.
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SG -- Totally portable, no dependancies.
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PUI -- Requires OpenGL also FNT and SG.
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PUI also requires some kind of windowing
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library - which could be PW - or GLUT,
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freeglut, SDL, FLTK - or others.
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PSL -- Requires UL.
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PW -- Requires UL.
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NET -- Should be portable to POSIX-compliant
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OS's.
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FNT and SSG -- Require OpenGL, SG and UL.
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SSGAUX -- Requires SSG - and hence OpenGL, SG and UL.
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PUIAUX -- Requires PUI - and hence FNT and SG.
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SL -- This has now been ported onto:
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Linux
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FreeBSD
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OpenBSD
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M$ Windows (NT,95,98 - so far)
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MacOS
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SGI IRIX
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Sun Solaris
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Any operating system that supports OSS (The
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Open Sound System).
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NOTE: SL has a subsidiary library 'SM' that
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can be used to control the audio mixer - but
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that is not portable beyond Linux. You might
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get it to work under OSS-based sound systems
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too. Don't use SM if you want to write portable
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code.
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No other requirements.
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AUX LIBRARIES AND TOOLS:
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The 'tools' directory contains a number of useful tools
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and utility programs that are either built using PLIB or
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which are specifically useful when writing PLIB programs.
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COMPILING/LINKING WITH PLIB
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In your source code, add any combination of:
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#include <plib/ul.h>
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#include <plib/js.h>
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#include <plib/sg.h>
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#include <plib/fnt.h>
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#include <plib/pu.h>
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#include <plib/ssg.h>
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#include <plib/pw.h>
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#include <plib/puAux.h>
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#include <plib/psl.h>
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#include <plib/sl.h>
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#include <plib/net.h>
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#include <plib/ssgAux.h>
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Add any of these to your link line:
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-lplibjs -lplibssgaux -lplibssg -lplibsl -lplibpu
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-lplibpuaux -lplibpw -lplibpsl -lplibfnt -lplibnet
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-lplibsg -lplibul
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Under UNIX/Linux, you'll also need:
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-lGLU -lGL -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 -lXext -lXmu -lm
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...and perhaps a -l for whatever windowing library
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you're using - unless it's the built-in PW library.
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Steve Baker.
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<sjbaker1@airmail.net>
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http://www.sjbaker.org
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