Section 1: Installation
All - The User's Manual is coming along. This is Secion 1 in it's entirety. Please review for accuracy and additional needed information, since I have no idea on other platforms.
1.1 WINDOWS
This User's Manual was written to the Windows version of Wings3D, however the concepts and commands discussed herein should be generally applicable to all platforms to the best of my knowledge. An effort will be made to explain where operations differ via platform. If you find differences that are not addressed please forward that information to the author so that the manual can be updated appropriately. Send changes, additions and corrections to jstro@swbell.net .
Wings3D is written in the Erlang programming language, therefore you must have the Erlang runtime libraries installed on your PC for Wings to work. You can download both the Erlang runtime libraries (R8B-0) and Wings3D binaries for Windows from the Wings home page:
www.wings3d.com/
These binaries will work for all versions of Windows. The Erlang download is large, approximately 23 MB, but only needs to be installed once. The Wings binaries are small, approximately 500 KB. Install R8B-0 first, then install Wings. When a new version of Wings becomes available, simply download the new binaries for Wings and reinstall it right over the old installation.
You may also want to download the sample plugins located at the same site. These should be installed in your Wings Plugins directory, which was created when you installed Wings.
1.2 LINUX
Binaries are not currently available for Linux, either for Erlang R8B-0 or Wings3D. Therefore you must download the source code package for both as found at the Sourceforge project page and compile them.
www.erlang.org/download.html
The system requirements in order to run Wings3D are 1) a computer and operating system that can run Erlang/OTP, and 2) OpenGL/Mesa drivers. You will need the following components to run Wings:
The R8B-0 release of Erlang/OTP,
ESDL release esdl-0.9.1218, or latter, including SDL and,
the Wings3D source code.
Download all three packages and compile them in this order; ESDL first, R8B-0 second, and then Wings itself last.
Once Wings has been installed you can start Wings like this:
erl -pa $ESDL_PATH/ebin MY_WINGS_PATH/ebin -run wings_start start_halt
where you should substitute MY_WINGS_PATH with the actual path to
your Wings directory.
Example:
erl -pa $ESDL_PATH/ebin /ldisk/bjorn/wings/ebin -run wings_start start_halt
1.3 SOLARIS
The Solaris installation instructions are the same as for Linux.
I'd really like to get Solaris version up and running, so help here would be appreciated.
1.4 MAC
The MAC installation instructions are the same as for Linux. Wings also runs under Windows emulation via Virtual PC.
Somehow I don't think it is as easy as this sounds for Macs. Ideas?
All - The User's Manual is coming along. This is Secion 1 in it's entirety. Please review for accuracy and additional needed information, since I have no idea on other platforms.
1.1 WINDOWS
This User's Manual was written to the Windows version of Wings3D, however the concepts and commands discussed herein should be generally applicable to all platforms to the best of my knowledge. An effort will be made to explain where operations differ via platform. If you find differences that are not addressed please forward that information to the author so that the manual can be updated appropriately. Send changes, additions and corrections to jstro@swbell.net .
Wings3D is written in the Erlang programming language, therefore you must have the Erlang runtime libraries installed on your PC for Wings to work. You can download both the Erlang runtime libraries (R8B-0) and Wings3D binaries for Windows from the Wings home page:
www.wings3d.com/
These binaries will work for all versions of Windows. The Erlang download is large, approximately 23 MB, but only needs to be installed once. The Wings binaries are small, approximately 500 KB. Install R8B-0 first, then install Wings. When a new version of Wings becomes available, simply download the new binaries for Wings and reinstall it right over the old installation.
You may also want to download the sample plugins located at the same site. These should be installed in your Wings Plugins directory, which was created when you installed Wings.
1.2 LINUX
Binaries are not currently available for Linux, either for Erlang R8B-0 or Wings3D. Therefore you must download the source code package for both as found at the Sourceforge project page and compile them.
www.erlang.org/download.html
The system requirements in order to run Wings3D are 1) a computer and operating system that can run Erlang/OTP, and 2) OpenGL/Mesa drivers. You will need the following components to run Wings:
The R8B-0 release of Erlang/OTP,
ESDL release esdl-0.9.1218, or latter, including SDL and,
the Wings3D source code.
Download all three packages and compile them in this order; ESDL first, R8B-0 second, and then Wings itself last.
Once Wings has been installed you can start Wings like this:
erl -pa $ESDL_PATH/ebin MY_WINGS_PATH/ebin -run wings_start start_halt
where you should substitute MY_WINGS_PATH with the actual path to
your Wings directory.
Example:
erl -pa $ESDL_PATH/ebin /ldisk/bjorn/wings/ebin -run wings_start start_halt
1.3 SOLARIS
The Solaris installation instructions are the same as for Linux.
I'd really like to get Solaris version up and running, so help here would be appreciated.
1.4 MAC
The MAC installation instructions are the same as for Linux. Wings also runs under Windows emulation via Virtual PC.
Somehow I don't think it is as easy as this sounds for Macs. Ideas?
