Building appleseed

This page will guide you through the process of building appleseed from scratch.

Required tools

Regardless on the platform you are using, you will need the following tools:

• Git. On Windows, we recommend SourceTree or Git Extensions.
• CMake 2.8.12 or later.

Important: make sure Git is in the path as it is used by our CMake-based build system.

Getting the source code

You need to clone the appleseed repository. On any platform, just type:

git clone git://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed.git

This will put everything inside an appleseed/ directory.

Building appleseed and its dependencies

• Building appleseed on Windows
• Building appleseed on Linux
• Building appleseed on OS X

Testing appleseed

You can now proceed to the Quick Start guide and give your build of appleseed a spin (you can skip the installation part obviously).