INSTALL

** For the latest information, please visit http://taoframework.com

There are two ways of building Tao; one requiring NAnt and one using the 
autotools tools. 

1. Using NAnt
=============
Building the Tao Framework with NAnt is rather easy. Just go to your favorite
shell and issue (in Tao's main directory):

$ nant build-release

to build all binaries for the current framework. In order to install Tao into  
the Global Assembly Cache and create pkg-config files on unix, this should be  
followed by:                                                                   

# nant install

On Windows you probably need to do this on the Visual Studio or .NET SDK
command prompt.
You can change the location for the GAC by adding -D:gacdir=/yourdir
You can change the location of pkg-config files by adding -D:pkgconfig=/yourdir

Alternatively you can also build a full zip package with documentation and     
source using:                                                                  

$ nant package

2. Using Autotools
==================
To generate the autotools build scripts, you need to bootstrap the package:

$ ./bootstrap

Once done, just run configure and make to build the Tao Framework:

$ ./configure
$ make

To install the assemblies and register them in the GAC, run as root:

# make install

You should now have:
 * tao-opengl.pc in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
 * Tao.OpenGl.dll in /usr/local/lib/cli/tao-opengl-<version>/
 * Tao.OpenGl in your GAC

You can now run something like this:

$ pkg-config --modversion tao-opengl
2.1.0.4

You can now add a dependence on Tao.OpenGl into your application by adding     
something like the following to your configure.ac:                             

TAO_OPENGL_REQUIRED_VERSION=2.1.0
PKG_CHECK_MODULES(TAO_OPENGL_DEPENDENCIES,
                  tao-opengl >= $TAO_OPENGL_REQUIRED_VERSION,
                  has_tao_opengl=yes,
                  has_tao_opengl=no)

if test "x$has_tao_opengl" = "xno"; then
  AC_MSG_WARN([Tao.OpenGl not detected; examples will not be built])
else
  AC_MSG_NOTICE([Tao.OpenGl found; examples will be built])
fi

AM_CONDITIONAL(HAS_TAO_OPENGL, test x$has_tao_opengl = xyes)