README.Debian ------------- The homepage of CGAL (http://www.cgal.org/) offers more information about CGAL. In particular, a mailing list and the documentation for the library (in PDF and HTML) are available. The authors ask you to give some feedback about your usage of CGAL in a short questionnaire (in the download section). Documentation ------------- Note that the CGAL documentation cannot be packaged for Debian due to unclear license conditions. The complete documentation in PDF and HTML is available at http://www.cgal.org/. Demos and examples ------------------ Tarballs with demos and examples can be found in /usr/share/doc/libcgal-demo. Extract the tarballs somewhere and call "cmake ." to configure the demos/examples. Call "make" to build them, either in the top-level directory to build all demos/examples (which takes some time and needs quite some disk space), or in the subdirectory of the desired demo/exmaple. The cmake option -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON is useful to generate verbose makefiles that show each executed command. Demos using libQGLViewer ------------------------ The Debian package of libQGLViewer uses non-standard library names to offer the library in a Qt3 and Qt4 flavor. The build system of CGAL has been patched to handle the non-standard library name. If your libQGLViewer packages are older than 2.3.1-4 you need to work around another problem with the non-standard include directory. Create an include directory with the expected name "QGLViewer", e.g., mkdir -p /some/dir ln -s /usr/include/qglviewer-qt4 /some/dir/QGLViewer and pass the option -DQGLVIEWER_INCLUDE_DIR=/some/dir to cmake. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522659 for more information. -- Joachim Reichel Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:29:02 +0100