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The design of Scenic goes to great lengths to minimize its dependencies to just the minimum. Namely, it needs Erlang/Elixir and OpenGL.
Rendering your application into a window on your local computer (MacOS, Ubuntu
and others) is done by the
scenic_driver_local
driver. It uses the GLFW and GLEW libraries to connect to OpenGL.
The instructions below assume you have already installed Elixir/Erlang. If you need to install Elixir/Erlang there are instructions on the elixir-lang website.
on-macos
On MacOS
The easiest way to install on MacOS is to use Homebrew. Just run the following in a terminal:
brew update
brew install glfw3 glew pkg-config
Once these components have been installed, you should be able to build the
scenic_driver_local driver.
on-windows
On Windows
Some initial setup is required for windows. You'll need windows services for linux (WSL) and VcXsrv, Jeffrey Borchert's article details these steps.
on-ubuntu-16
On Ubuntu 16
The easiest way to install on Ubuntu is to use apt-get. Just run the following:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pkgconf libglfw3 libglfw3-dev libglew1.13 libglew-dev
Once these components have been installed, you should be able to build the
scenic_driver_glfw driver.
on-ubuntu-18
On Ubuntu 18
The easiest way to install on Ubuntu is to use apt-get. Just run the following:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pkgconf libglfw3 libglfw3-dev libglew2.0 libglew-dev
Once these components have been installed, you should be able to build the
scenic_driver_glfw driver.
on-fedora
On Fedora
The easiest way to install on Fedora is to use dnf. Just run the following:
dnf install glfw glfw-devel pkgconf glew glew-devel
Once these components have been installed, you should be able to build the
scenic_driver_glfw driver.
on-archlinux
On Archlinux
The easiest way to install on Archlinux is to use pacman. Just run the following:
sudo pacman -S glfw-x11 glew
If you're using wayland, you'll probably need glfw-wayland instead of
glfw-x11 and glew-wayland instead of glew
what-to-read-next
What to read next?
Next, you should read about General Overview.