From: Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Date: 01/12/2000 10:48:49
The Template Graphics distribution will not help you.
It knows nothing about Performer and has no code to build a Performer
scene graph.
Perhaps Allan or Tom can confirm what I'm about to say, but I think that
the problem with the Performer Inventor loader is that it links to
Inventor libs to load the Inventor file then converts from the in memory
representation to the Performer scene graph. From this you can conclude
that an available Inventor library on your system would be essential to
ultimately facilitate the Inventor loading process, however from your
perspective this isn't currently possible since the Performer .iv loader
hasn't been ported and doesn't ship (my assumption).
As always would be possible for you or a third party to write your own
loader.
Going out on a limb now, to make this work, the intrepid Linux porting
team would have to get an Inventor development library for Linux and
port & ship the Performer loader using this. You would then have to get
a runtime Inventor library (unless it could be statically included in
the Performer loader, technically & legally) from a third party and
provided all the libs were named correctly in the right place and built
against the right libc you would have a working Inventor loader for
Performer.
Things are moving so fast on the Linux graphics front that this may
change in future.
Cheers,Angus.
obillard++at++free.fr wrote:
>
> Angus wrote :
>
> Don't call this with a ".iv" string unless you have the inventor loader
> dso AND you intend to load an inventor format file later.
>
> I'm really surprised.. is there a way to make linux performer loading inventor
> file under linux?
> should I need to have a TGS distribution for linux to do this?
>
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