morphologica_template

This example project demonstrates how you can write and build a program that uses morphologica as a library

Really, this project is just one CMakeLists.txt file containing the commands required to use morphologica and a single target (prog1), which compiles the example program prog1.cpp.

To make your own program, you could either replace prog1.cpp with your own code, or incorporate the relevant parts of the CMakeLists.txt file into your own CMakeLists.txt in another project.

RSECon24 Workshop

If you are attending the Research Software Engineering Conference workshop on Sept 3 2024 in Newcastle, please install the dependencies before the meeting! This is especially important if you wish to use your Mac or a non-Debian/Ubuntu Linux distro. Feel free to ask for help with this beforehand on this repository's Issues.

Dependencies

If you are using Debian or Ubuntu, the following apt command should install the morphologica dependencies. Note that libarmadillo-dev and libhdf5-dev are optional. They're not used by prog1.cpp but they do allow all the morphologica headers to be used in this template.

sudo apt install build-essential cmake git wget  \
                 freeglut3-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libxmu-dev libxi-dev \
                 libglfw3-dev libfreetype-dev libarmadillo-dev libhdf5-dev

On Arch Linux the following command should install dependencies:

sudo pacman -S vtk lapack blas freeglut glfw-wayland

On Fedora Linux, the following command should install the required dependencies

sudo dnf install gcc cmake libglvnd-devel mesa-libGL-devel glfw-devel \
                 freetype-devel armadillo-devel hdf5-devel

I'd love to know the equivalents for other Linux distributions so I can include them in the morphologica documentation, so if you know, please pull-request them!

If you're building on a Mac, you can refer to the Mac README for help. You only need to obtain and build glfw3; OpenGL and Freetype should already be installed by default.

Building

To build and run the example:

# Clone this example
git clone git@github.com:ABRG-Models/morphologica_template # or your fork of it

# Clone, copy or symlink morphologica INSIDE your example:
cd morphologica_template # or whatever you named your fork/copy
git clone git@github.com:ABRG-Models/morphologica

# Build prog1 in a 'build' directory
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
./prog1 # You should see a window containing some graphs