SciTech Multi-platform Graphics Library Version 6.0 - Release 23 Getting Started Guide What is this document for? -------------------------- This text document is intended to be a brief overview to help developers determine which files to download to get started. This document is *NOT* intended as a readme file to get you started installing and using the SciTech MGL. For complete documentation on installing and using the SciTech MGL, please refer to the online HTML documentation pages found here: http://www.scitechsoft.com/docs/mgl Installing the files -------------------- The SciTech MGL requires the SciTech SNAP Graphics SDK in order to access the underlying graphics hardware device. Hence to install the SciTech MGL, you will need to first install and configure the SciTech SNAP SDK. To install the files, at a minimum you will need a copy of the SciTech SNAP SDK source archive, the SciTech SNAP SDK base utilities archive for your OS, the SciTech SNAP device driver binaries, the MGL source archive and the font and bitmap resource archives. Uncompress all files in the archives into the directory on your system where you want the files to live (normally c:\scitech or ~/scitech for Unix). You can optionally install the source code for the base archive utilities as well as the MGL documentation in HTML format (for offline browsing). The names of the archives included in this release are: snap_sdk_3.1-r23-src.zip - SNAP source archive in DOS/Win format snap_sdk_3.1-r23-win32.zip - Win32 hosted base utilities snap_sdk_3.1-r23-os2.zip - OS/2 hosted base utilities snap_sdk_3.1-r23-drivers.zip - SciTech SNAP device driver binaries snap_sdk_3.1-r23-util.zip - Source code for base utilities snap_sdk_3.1-r23-docs.zip - SDK documentation in HTML format snap_sdk_3.1-r23-pdf.zip - SDK documentation in Adobe PDF format mgl_6.0-r23-src.zip - MGL source archive in DOS/Win format mgl_6.0-r23-drivers.zip - MGL binary portable modules mgl_6.0-r23-font.zip - Base font and bitmap archive mgl_6.0-r23-ttf1.zip - Free TrueType Font archive 1 mgl_6.0-r23-ttf2.zip - Free TrueType Font archive 2 mgl_6.0-r23-docs.zip - MGL documentation in HTML format mgl_6.0-r23-pdf.zip - MGL documentation in Adobe PDF format snap_sdk_3.1-r23-src.tar.gz - Source archive in Unix format snap_sdk_3.1-r23-linux.tar.gz - Linux hosted base utilities snap_sdk_3.1-r23-qnx.tar.gz - QNX hosted base utilities snap_sdk_3.1-r23-drivers.tar.gz - SciTech SNAP device driver binaries snap_sdk_3.1-r23-util.tar.gz - Source code for base utilities snap_sdk_3.1-r23-docs.tar.gz - SDK documentation in HTML format snap_sdk_3.1-r23-pdf.tar.gz - SDK documentation in Adobe PDF format mgl_6.0-r23-src.tar.gz - MGL source archive in Unix format mgl_6.0-r23-drivers.tar.gz - MGL binary portable modules mgl_6.0-r23-font.tar.gz - Base font and bitmap archive mgl_6.0-r23-ttf1.tar.gz - Free TrueType Font archive 1 mgl_6.0-r23-ttf2.tar.gz - Free TrueType Font archive 2 mgl_6.0-r23-docs.tar.gz - MGL documentation in HTML format mgl_6.0-r23-pdf.tar.gz - MGL documentation in Adobe PDF format Connecting with Perforce ------------------------ All of the source code for the SciTech MGL is managed by a public software repository, using the commercial Perforce version management system. Perforce Software has graciously allowed Open Source software projects to be able to use a free server license for that source code. If you wish to connect with Perforce, you can download a copy of the entire public depot at the time the release was made. This contains a lot more files than is distributed in the files listed above, but is useful if you wish to avoid doing a large initial sync. You will need one of the following files depending on the platform you are using, and you will not need *any* of the files listed above: full_depot_r23.zip - Complete copy of GPL depot in DOS/Win format full_depot_r23.tar.gz - Complete copy of GPL depot in Unix format For complete instruction on how to get connected via Perforce, please refer to the full SciTech MGL documentation found here: http://www.scitechsoft.com/docs/mgl ---- END OF README.TXT ----