The sofware requires the following packages:
- CGAL
- Boost
- oneAPI MKL
- oneAPI Thread Building Blocks
Installation on Windows with Microsoft Visual Studio (Community) 2022 is described in the following.
Please consider using the cmake-gui tool.
Boost installation
The most easy way to install boost is to visit this link. Please choose to download a file like boost_1_79_0-msvc-14.1-64.exe. This file installs the BOOST library in a directory that the user selects, let it be D:\Dev\boost_1_79_0.
The user then needs to set the environmental variables:
BOOST_ROOT pointing to D:\Dev\boost_1_79_0
BOOST_INCLUDEDIR pointing to D:\Dev\boost_1_79_0
BOOST_LIBRARYDIR pointing to D:\Dev\boost_1_79_0\lib64-msvc-14.1
Now CMake will be able to find Boost in the system.
CGAL installation
Suppose that this version
of CGAL is downloaded and unzipped to directory: D:\Dev\CGAL-5.4 then the following environmetal variable needs
to be set:
CGAL_DIR pointing to D:\Dev\CGAL-5.4
Now CMAKE can find CGAL.
Intel oneAPI MKL & Thread Building Blocks
The most easy way to install both APIs is to install Intel's oneAPI base toolkit software. Once installed CMAKE will find it and build upon it.
The software has a test application testGeodesic which is called by
testGeodesic pointcloud.xyz
The argument is the point cloud to which random geodesics will be drawn. It is a text file of points of the form "x y z nx ny nz" for each line (x, y, z the point coordinates, nx, ny, nz the normal coordinates).
