meshlab/scripts/Linux

Linux Scripts

This folder contains a series of scripts to build and deploy MeshLab under a Linux environment (tested on Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 and 20.04).

• 0_setup_env_ubuntu.sh: this script installs all the required dependencies that are necessary to build MeshLab in an Ubuntu distro (tested in 16.04, 18.04 and 20.04). If you never installed Qt and other libraries, you should run it before any other script;
• 1_build.sh: this script builds MeshLab in a Linux environment:
  • it requires a properly set Qt environment (see 0_setup_env_ubuntu.sh);
  • takes as arguments:
    • the build directory (default: src/build): --build_path=path/to/build
    • the install directory (default: src/install): --install_path=path/to/install
    • the number of cores used to build MeshLab (default: -j4)`
• 2_deploy.sh: this script makes the given path a portable version of MeshLab. Takes as argument the path where the output install path of the 1_build.sh script is placed (default: src/install);
• 3_appimage.sh: this script computes, starting from the portable folder of MeshLab, an AppImage that can be run in a Linux Environment without dependencies. Takes as argument the path where the output install path of the 2_deploy.sh script is placed (default: src/install);
• make_it.sh: this script builds, deploys and generates an AppImage that can be run in a Linux Environment without dependencies. Arguments are the same of the 1_build.sh script.

NOTE: linux_deploy.shand linux_make_it.sh use LinuxDeployQt, which allows to deploy applications only running the oldest supported linux distro (see this) in order to guarantee the largest support possible. Therefore, before running these scripts, be sure that your Linux distribution is the oldest supported one.

Examples

Building MeshLab on a clean Linux environment (build placed in meshlab/src/build):

git clone --recursive https://github.com/cnr-isti-vclab/meshlab
bash meshlab/scripts/Linux/0_setup_env_ubuntu.sh
bash meshlab/scripts/Linux/1_build.sh

Building and generating AppImage on a clean Ubuntu 16.04 (last supported distro) environment:

• build directory: ./meshlab-build
• install directory: ./meshlab-install
• AppImage path: ./

git clone --recursive https://github.com/cnr-isti-vclab/meshlab
bash meshlab/scripts/Linux/0_setup_env_ubuntu.sh
bash meshlab/scripts/Linux/make_it.sh --build_path="./meshlab-build" --install_path="./meshlab-install"