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Developer installation for FreeBSD

This file is supposed to guide you step by step to have working (compiling) version of Natron on FreeBSD.

Install libraries

In order to have Natron compiling, first you need to install the required libraries.

Qt 4.8.6

pkg install qt4

Boost

pkg install boost-all

OpenFX

Go under Natron and type

git submodule update -i --recursive

Expat

pkg install expat

GLEW

pkg install glew

Cairo 1.12

Download Cairo 1.12 and install.

./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make && make install

We're done here for libraries.

###Add the config.pri file

You have to define the locations of some required libraries. This is done by creating a .pri file next to the Project.pro that will tell the .pro where to find those libraries. The only library to put in the config.pri file on unix systems is boost. For all other libraries are found with PKGConfig.

  • create the config.pri file next to the Project.pro file.

You can fill it with the following proposed code to point to the libraries. Of course you need to provide valid paths that are valid on your system.

INCLUDEPATH is the path to the include files

LIBS is the path to the libs

----- copy and paste the following in a terminal -----
cat > config.pri << EOF
boost: LIBS += -lboost_serialization
expat: LIBS += -lexpat
expat: PKGCONFIG -= expat
EOF
----- end -----

Build

The must be absolute and must not be a subdir of 

mkdir <buildPath>
cd <buildfolder>
qmake -r <srcPath>/Project.pro
make

If you want to build in DEBUG mode change the qmake call to this line:

qmake -r CONFIG+=debug <srcPath>/Project.pro

Some debug options are available for developers of Natron and you can see them in the global.pri file. To enable an option just add CONFIG+= in the qmake call.

Nodes

Natron's nodes are contained in separate repositories. To use the default nodes, you must also build the following repositories:

https://github.com/devernay/openfx-misc
https://github.com/MrKepzie/openfx-io

You'll find installation instructions in the README of both these repositories. Both openfx-misc and openfx-io have submodules as well.

Plugins must be installed in /usr/OFX/Plugins on FreeBSD Or in a directory named "Plugins" located in the parent directory where the binary lies, e.g:

bin/
    Natron
Plugins/
    IO.ofx.bundle

OpenColorIO configs

Note that if you want Natron to find the OpenColorIO config files you will need to place them in the appropriate location. In the repository they are located under Gui/Resources/OpenColorIO-Configs. You must copy them to a directory named ../share/OpenColorIO-Configs relative to Natron's binary.