Revision as of 16:11, 25 February 2015

Welcome

This part of the Wiki is dedicated to developers who would like to implement their own plug-ins for AnyWave.

Setting up the SDK

Before developing a plug-in for AnyWave, the developer must download and build the SDK.
The SDK is available here: https://github.com/anywave/sdk
Note that you can also try to build the complete AnyWave software which includes the SDK.
AnyWave git repository is available here: https://github.com/anywave/anywave

Clone the sdk repository on your computer:

• On Linux or Mac systems this can be done in a terminal with the following command: git clone https://github.com/anywave/sdk mysdkfolder
• On Windows, we strongly suggest to install the TortoiseGit Software, freely available at https://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/wiki/Download

Software requirements

To successfully build the SDK, at least two software must be installed on the computer:

• The Qt4 framework
• The VTK library (version 5.4.2 to 5.8 will work)

AnyWave compatibility

When building a plug-in, the developer has two choices:

• Build for the currently distributed AnyWave version
• Build for its own AnyWave version built from the sources available on github.

Pay attention that if the plug-in must work with the distributed binary versions of AnyWave it must match more requirements:

• Qt4 must be 4.8.2 to work with the Linux debian packaged version of AnyWave.
• Qt4 must be 4.8.1 to 4.8.5 to work with the Windows and Mac OS X versions.
• VTK library must be 5.4.2 to 5.8.xx (VTK 6.x will not work)