Cinder for Linux | Ubuntu 15.X on x86_64

Requirements

CMake

Cinder for Linux requires CMake 3.1 or later. You can use the binary package or do a build from the source. Make sure cmake is in $PATH and accessible from the command line.

For Ubuntu 15.10 or later, just install cmake from the Ubuntu repository:

sudo apt-get install cmake

For Ubuntu 15.04, you can find the downloads for CMake here.

If you need to build CMake, see [Building CMake](Building CMake).

Compiler

You can use either Clang or GCC to build Cinder as well as Cinder based applications. Clang compiles faster and uses less memory than GCC.

Clang 3.6.2 and later

For Ubuntu 15.10 or later, just install cmake from the Ubunut repository:

sudo apt-get install cmake

For Ubuntu 15.04 can download the binaries for Clang from here. For x86_64, download Clang for x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04. Any version from 3.6.2 on should work.

GCC 4.9 or GCC 5.X

Ubuntu 15.04 ships with GCC 4.9 while Ubuntu 15.10 ships with GCC 5.2.

Library Dependencies

sudo apt-get install libxcursor-dev \
libxrandr-dev \
libxinerama-dev \
libxi-dev \
libgl1-mesa-dev \
zlib1g-dev \
libfontconfig1-dev \
libmpg123-dev \
libsndfile1 \
libsndfile1-dev \
libpulse-dev \
libasound2-dev \
libcurl4-gnutls-dev

Building Cinder

Pre-build checklist:

• Boost submodule for Cinder is installed.
• Library dependencies are installed.
• CMake 3.1 (or later) is installed and cmake is accessible from the command line.

Building

Starting in the Cinder directory:

cd linux
./build

Building and Running BasicApp

Building

Starting in the Cinder directory:

cd samples/BasicApp/linux
./build

Running

Starting from samples/BasicApp/linux:

./Debug/ogl/BasicApp