Prebuilts making trouble?

There are several inconveniences when using prebuilt packages and installers. First, these prebuilts are often compiler-dependent, platform-dependent, and even architecture-dependent. For example, you can never run osgviewer.exe on a UNIX system if the executable was built under Windows XP and Visual Studio 2008. One more example: although a 32-bit OSG application is capable of running on 64-bit Windows servers, a 64-bit OSG application compiled specifically for 64-bit Windows will only run on 64-bit Windows. In these cases, you will have to wait until others who are using the same computing environment with you have their OSG package built and published.

Secondly, the prebuilts are seldom made from the latest version. ...

Get OpenSceneGraph 3.0 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.