You need to have a C compiler. I recommend you download and install Visual C++ from Visual Studio 2008 Express for free.
Download ode-0.11.1.zip from www.ode.org (click on download, click on version-numbered source releases, which redirects you to the sourceforge repository)
Extract all into ode-01.11.1 in the subdirectory build run the command premake4 --with-demos vs2008 You can do this in a command prompt window (accessories/command prompt)
double click on ode-01.11.1/build/ode/ode.vcproj This should launch a Visual C++ window.
Click on the toplevel menu item Build, and then Build Solution
Executable demo programs end up in ode-0.11.1/lib/DebugDoubleDLL/
Note: If OpenGL includes and libraries are not already installed in your version of linux, you may have to install some packages along the lines of Free86-OpenGL-devel-xxx, X11-OpenGL-devel-xxx, Mesa-libGL-devel-xxx, libgl1-mesa-dev, libgl1-mesa-dev, libx11-dev, and libglu1-mesa-dev. Check out http://www.mesa3d.org/
Something like sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev libx11-dev libglu1-mesa-dev or sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev mesa-common-dev should install all the headers
Download ode-0.11.1.zip from www.ode.org (click on download, click on version-numbered source releases, which redirects you to the sourceforge repository)
unzip ode-0.11.1.zip
cd ode-0.11.1
./configure
make
make install
You are ready to roll here.
To get to demos cd ode/demo ./demo_basket ...
You are ready to roll here. What follows is for people who want to get into it more deeply.
Look at ode-0.11.1/INSTALL.txt for how to tune ODE for your machine. Check out ode-config
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Libraries have been installed in:
/usr/local/lib
If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries
in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and
specify the full pathname of the library, or use the `-LLIBDIR'
flag during linking and do at least one of the following:
- add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable
during execution
- add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable
during linking
- use the `-Wl,-rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag
- have your system administrator add LIBDIR to `/etc/ld.so.conf'
See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for
more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
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