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To improve portability and consistency across platforms, VR Juggler uses GNU make for installing the library (compiling is covered in Chapter 7). The makefiles used employ many features that are unique to GNU make thus requiring that people who wish to compile Juggler from its source are required to have it installed. The Juggler makefiles are known to to work with GNU make versions 3.78.1 and newer. To make sense of this documentation, please understand the concepts listed in the section called “Required Reading”. Posting about these subjects to the mailing list will probably be ignored.
In this chapter, the following conventions are used for text formatting and naming:
Program, file and directory names are represented this way.
Commands that are intended to be run by the user are written in this style.
References to system and library calls are written as call_name(##) where “##” is the manual section where that call's documentation can be found.
Makefile targets are named as 'target', and makefile variables are named as $(VAR_NAME).
Environment variables are named as defined in the “Enviroment Variables” chapter in the Getting Started Guide.
Please refer to the section called “General Quick Start”. The information there provides everything needed to get started with installing Juggler after building it.