Compiling

The active development is done on a linux operating system (Ubuntu in particular). The raytracer is platform independent to a large extend and should work for Windows operating systems. However, this was never tested. Currently, the Ignis project targets Linux only, but Windows and hopefully Mac OS support should follow in the future.

Linux

A quick and dirty tutorial to show how to setup AnyDSL and Ignis on a typical Linux OS. The following will need ccmake, but works also with cmake-gui or with plain cmake as well.

1. Clone AnyDSL from https://github.com/AnyDSL/anydsl

1. Copy the config.sh.template to config.sh.

2. Change : ${BUILD_TYPE:=Debug} to : ${BUILD_TYPE:=Release} inside config.sh

3. Optional: Use ninja instead of make as it is superior in all regards.

4. Run ./setup.sh inside a terminal at the root directory and get a coffee.

2. Clone Ignis from https://github.com/PearCoding/Ignis

1. Make sure all the dependencies listed in official top README.md are installed.

2. Run mkdir build && cd build && cmake ..

3. Run ccmake . inside the build/ directory.

4. Change AnyDSL_runtime_DIR to ANYDSL_ROOT/runtime/build/share/anydsl/cmake, with ANYDSL_ROOT being the path to the root of the AnyDSL framework.

5. Select the drivers you want to compile. All interesting options regarding Ignis start with IG_

6. Run cmake --build . inside the build/ directory and get your second coffee.

3. Run ./bin/igview ../scenes/diamond_scene.json inside the build/ directory to see if your setup works.