COVISE, the collaborative visualization and simulation environment, is a modular distributed visualization system. As its focus is on visualization of scientific data in virtual environments, it comprises the VR renderer OpenCOVER. COVISE development is headed by HLRS. It is portable to Windows and UNIX. We do regular builds on x86_64 Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
If not stated otherwise, COVISE and OpenCOVER source code is licensed under the LGPL v2.1. See lgpl-2.1.txt
for
details.
Getting COVISE is as easy as
git clone https://github.com/hlrs-vis/covise.git
cd covise
git submodule update --init
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C++ compiler: C++03 or C++11
On Windows, only Visual Studio 2012 is tested.
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CMake: 2.8.10 or newer should work
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XercesC:
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Qt: Either Qt 4 or 5 is required by the graphical user interface.
For Qt5, you need the following modules:
Qt5Core
Qt5Network
Qt5Xml
Qt5Widgets
Qt5OpenGL
Qt5WebKit
Qt5WebKitWidgets
Qt5Gui
Qt5Svg
Qt5PrintSupport
Qt5UiTools
Qt5Script
Qt5ScriptTools
On Ubuntu 14.04, you should be able to install the required packages with this command:
sudo apt-get install qttools5-dev qtscript5-dev libqt5scripttools5 libqt5svg5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev
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Boost: 1.52 and newer should work, following boost libraries are required:
chrono
date-time
filesystem
iostreams
locale
program-options
regex
serialization
system
thread
When any of these are missing, you will only get a generic message, that "Boost" is missing. Thus beware!
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Python: Python 3 is required for the GUI vr-prepare and for the scripting interface
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GLEW: Used for OpenGL extension handling in Virvo (direct volume rendering) and OpenCOVER
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OpenSceneGraph: 3.2 or newer is required
- JPEG Turbo
- VTK Version 6 is required.
- Flex and Bison Lexer/Parser generators, required to build VRML plugin.
CMake will show lists of met and unmet optional and required dependencies. You should check those and install additional prerequisites as needed.
cd covise
git submodule update --init --recursive # update submodules to latest required version
source .covise.sh #set environment variables
make #invoke cmake followed by make
COVISE and OpenCOVER are built by two separate CMake projects.
This command sequence sets environment variables necessary while building
COVISE, invokes cmake
for the COVISE project, builds COVISE, and then
continues with invoking cmake
for the OpenCOVER project followed by make
.
After an initial build, it is possible to invoke make
from within
subdirectories of covise/src
.
No installation is required: you can use COVISE directly from the build tree.
cd covise
common.bat
mkdir build.covise
cd build.covise
cmake-gui ..
devenv
cd %COVISEDIR%
mkdir build.cover
cd build.cover
cmake-gui ../src/OpenCOVER
devenv
Add .../covise/bin to your PATH.
covise
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cmake
: cmake files -
doc
: documentation and tools for creating documentation -
config
: configuration examples -
scripts
: support scripts for building COVISE -
share
: architecture independent files: textures, shaders, example data, ... -
src
: source code-
src/3rdparty
: 3rd party source code -
src/tools
: various programs related to building or using COVISE -
src/kernel
: COVISE core libraries -
src/sys
: COVISE core executables -
src/module
: COVISE visualization modules (algorithms) -
src/OpenCOVER
: VR renderer with its plug-ins
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As a user of COVISE, you might get answers to your questions on the covise-users mailing list.