Welcome to Dore'! This is Dore' 6.01, an interim release intended to fix bugs in the build process, and to perform some cosmetic changes. Please test and excercise it, and report any bugs or problems you may find to me (my address is below). There is a list of known outstanding bugs in the file `BUGS'. INTRODUCTION: ============= On January 18th, 1995, Kubota Graphics Corp released Dore' 6.0, a commercial 3D graphics API, to the public for free, as they were soon to cease operation. About that time, I was looking for an available 3D API to experiment with. One requirement was that it be free, and support zbuffering, and backface culling. Anything else was an extra :) Dore' satisfies all this, and much more. Dore' is a great gift to the public. Dore' still needs much work. And I can't do it all myself, primarily due to lack of time, and lack of hardware. This has to be a collective effort. So please, if you can, choose an aspect of Dore' that you t hink needs improvement, let me know about it, and then go to work! I'll try to coordinate things as best I can. The file PROJECTS has some things that need to be worked on. Brian de Alwis bdealwis@Newbridge.COM 95/02/20 ------------------------------------------------------------ Building Instructions: Dore' now builds using Imake. Imake is a complex beast, but there are relatively few options that need to be set for Dore'. For more information specifically on Imake, refer t o the release notes from the X Window System (this particular Imake set was taken from X11R6/XFree86 3.1). One of the advantages of this Imake setup is that it is possible to build both normal and shared libraries at the same time! Edit config/cf/site.def to suit. The relevant options are in the AfterVendorCF section. You should be able to simply follow the comments. The build is set up for a `generic' Unix system running X11. If you have more esoteric hardware, you may want to chan ge the setups. Look in config/cf for a .cf file describing your setup, such as sun.cf for a SunOS or Solaris system. Read over any comments, and also check in the file, for a line of the form #define BootstrapCFlags <bootstrap-options> Make note of the </bootstrap-options><bootstrap-options>, as you'll be using it soon. Don't worry if your .cf file doesn't have a BootstrapCFlags line. Once you have completed this, run the following: make -f Makefile.ini BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS="<bootstrap- options="options">" \ World 2>&1 | tee world.log where </bootstrap-></bootstrap-options><bootstrap-options> is the value you recorded from above. This process will build the Dore' library, the demo programs (surprisingly found in demo/), and some test programs. If the build is successful, then you can install the various components with make install If you want the man pages, then also specify the `install.man' target. NOTE: The information here may be obsolete! Notes on building Dore' for Windows NT: 1. You need to use NTFS for the long filenames. The Dore tree can have some fairly long file names. 2. The NT port hasn't been tested extensively. It seems to work. It uses the aux toolkit to open the device and such unlike the unix-opengl port which uses glx. </bootstrap-options>