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The following sections give step-by-step instructions for installing the 7.00 version of G3D.
These assume no familiarity with Visual Studio or G3D (however, to use G3D, you'll need to know your way around a 3D graphics pipeline.)
For experienced Visual Studio users, the short version of these instructions is simple:
- Unzip G3D-7.00-win32.zip and configure Visual Studio's Include and Library paths.
- See
G3D-7.00\demos\starter for a simple application framework.
Visual Studio 8 (officially known as Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition)
is available as a free download from Microsoft at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/download/.
When installing, be sure to follow all instructions exactly, including
their critical "step 4" of manually installing the Microsoft Platform
Software Development Kit (SDK). Note that there is also a profession
edition of Visual Studio 2005 that can be purchased.
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Download G3D-7.00-win32.zip
and unzip it into a directory like c:\libraries. This
will create the directories c:\libraries\G3D-7.00,
c:\libraries\G3D-7.00\html, etc.
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Run Visual Studio
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Click on the Tools menu and then select Options, as demonstrated in this image:
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In the tree control on the left of the Options dialog, expand the Projects and Solutions item (refer to the Options Dialog image below).
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Select VC++ Directories under Projects and Solutions. The tab on the right will now display a list of directories for Executable Files.
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From the drop-down list labelled Show directories for, which is in the upper-right of the Options Dialog, select Include files.
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Double-click in the white space below the last listed directory
in the central list box and type the full path to the G3D include
directory, as demonstrated in the image below. If you installed G3D to
c:\libraries, this path is
c:\libraries\G3D-7.00\include.
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Change the Show directories for drop-down list to Library files.
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Double-click in the white space below the last listed directory
in the central list box and type the full path to the %G3D lib
directory. If you installed G3D to
c:\libraries, this path is
c:\libraries\G3D-7.00\lib.
Push Ok to close the Options dialog.
Quit Visual Studio to ensure that your changes are saved.
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