We developed grSim on Ubuntu OS. (Ubuntu 14.04+ tested and is recommended). It is important that the graphics card driver is installed properly (the official Ubuntu packages for nVidia and AMD(ATI) graphics cards are available). grSim will compile and run in both 32 and 64 bits Linux and Mac OS.
GrSim is written in C++, in order to compile it, you will need a working toolchain and a c++ compiler.
GrSim depends on:
- CMake version 3.5+
- pkg-config
- OpenGL
- Qt5 Development Libraries
- Open Dynamics Engine (ODE)
- VarTypes Library forked from Szi's Vartypes
- Google Protobuf
- Boost development libraries (needed by VarTypes)
Note: It's necessary to compile ODE in double precision. This is default when installing the ODE binaries in Ubuntu. However, if you are compiling ODE from source (e.g on Mac OS), please make sure to enable the double precision during the configuration step: ./configure --enable-double-precision
.
If you run a Debian system, or derivative, first ensure that these dependencies are there:
$ sudo apt-get install git build-essential cmake pkg-config qt5-default libqt5opengl5-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libode-dev libboost-dev
Next compile and install VarTypes from source. In the following we install VarTypes from source using git
.
$ cd /tmp
$ git clone https://github.com/jpfeltracco/vartypes.git
$ cd vartypes
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ sudo make install
Next, clone grSim into your preferred location.
$ cd /path/to/grsim_ws
$ git clone https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/grSim.git
$ cd grSim
Create a build directory within the project (this is ignored by .gitignore):
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
Run CMake to generate the makefiles:
$ cmake ..
Then compile the program:
$ make
The binary is copied to the ../bin
folder after a successful compilation.
Pre-requirements:
First ensure the dependencies are there:
brew install cmake
brew install pkg-config
brew tap robotology/formulae
brew install robotology/formulae/ode
brew install qt
brew install protobuf
If you run into build issues, you may need to run this first:
brew update
brew doctor
Next we need to install VarTypes manually. Please refer to the documentation above for the procedure.
The steps to compile grSim on Mac OS is similar to the steps outlines above for Linux:
$ cd /path/to/grsim_ws
$ git clone https://github.com/Robocup-SSL/grSim.git
$ cd ./grSim
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
The binary files (grSim and the sample client) will be placed in ../bin
.
When running grSim, check the FPS in the status bar. If it is running at 60 FPS or higher, everything is ok. Otherwise check the graphics card's driver installation and OpenGL settings.