Dev:Doc/Hackers Guide/Getting Dependencies

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[edit] What Are They?

Blender depends on several 3rd party libraries for some of its functionality. If you want you can check out the lib module from CVS - lib\YOUR_DEV_PLATFORM . This module contains several directories, each for a different platform for instance windows would be lib\windows. Depending on the platform it contains some prebuilt libraries, but not all are available that way, like the Quicktime SDK.

Alternatively many of blenders supported development platforms come with most of these libraries preinstalled.

[edit] Where Can I Get Them?

If you don't trust binaries built by others, or you are a purity freak, you can of course create these yourself. Below a list of the dependencies needed by Blender:

• Python 2.3/2.4: www.python.org
• libjpeg: www.ijg.org
• libpng: www.libpng.org/pub/png/
• zlib: www.gzip.org/zlib/
• OpenAL: www.openal.org (for Linux/Windows)
• SDL: www.libsdl.org (for OpenAL)
• Quicktime: developer.apple.com/quicktime/
• ODE: ode.org (also available from blender/extern/ode!) Blender ODE implementation not currently maintainted
• OpenEXR: www.openexr.com Note: OpenEXR support is still under development, not in main tree.

Note: for the Windows builds Quicktime is expected at basedir/lib/windows/QTDevWin (which contains directories CIncludes and Libraries).

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