OpenMetaverse Library Quick Start


Finding Help
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If you need any help we have a couple of resources, the primary one being 
the #libomv IRC channel on EFNet. There is also the libsl-dev mailing list 
at http://openmetaverse.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libsl-dev and lastly 
you can use the e-mail contact@openmv.org for any general inquiries 
(although we prefer developer-related questions to go to IRC or the mailing 
list). You can find us in-world via the open invitation libsecondlife group 
or at our HQ and testing area in Hooper (SLURL: http://xrl.us/bi233).

Source Code:
   To checkout a copy of libopenmv trunk
   svn co http://openmetaverse.org/svn/omf/libopenmetaverse/trunk/ libopenmetaverse

For more details see: 
   http://lib.openmetaverse.org/wiki/SVN
   http://lib.openmetaverse.org/wiki/Getting_Started

Getting started on Windows
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Prerequisites (all Freely Available)
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Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 - Get directly from Windows Update.
Visual C# Express - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualcsharp/

Optional-
nAnt (0.86) - http://nant.sourceforge.net/
nUnit Framework (2.2.8 or greater) - http://www.nunit.org/


Compiling
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For Visual Studio 2008/Visual C# Express 2008
1. Open Explorer and browse to the directory you extracted the source distribution to
2. Double click the runprebuild2008.bat file, this will create the necessary solution and project files
3. open the solution OpenMetaverse.sln from within Visual Studio
4. From the Build Menu choose Build Solution (or press the F6 Key)

The library, example applications and tools will be in the bin directory

For Visual Studio 2010:
1. Open Explorer and browse to the directory you extracted the source distribution to
2. Double click the runprebuild2010.bat file, this will create the necessary solution and project files
3. open the solution OpenMetaverse.sln from within Visual Studio
4. From the Build Menu choose Build Solution (or press the F6 Key)

The library, example applications and tools will be in the bin directory

For more details http://lib.openmetaverse.org/wiki/Getting_Started


Getting started on Linux
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Prerequisites Needed
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mono 2.4 - http://www.mono-project.com/

Optional-
nUnit Framework (2.2.8 or greater) - http://www.nunit.org/
nAnt (0.86) - http://nant.sourceforge.net/

Compiling
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Using nant:
1. Change to the directory you extracted the source distribution to
2. run the prebuild file: % sh runprebuild.sh nant - This will generate the required nant build files and run
   nant with the correct buildfile parameter to build the library, examples and tools

Using mono xbuild:
1. Change to the directory you extracted the source distribution to
2. run the prebuild file: % sh runprebuild.sh - This will generate the solution files for xbuild
3. Compile the solution with the command: % xbuild OpenMetaverse.sln

The library, example applications and tools will be in the bin directory

For more details http://lib.openmetaverse.org/wiki/Getting_Started


Happy fiddling,
-- OpenMetaverse Ninjas