meshlab

####Dependencies You need Qt5.7 and we assume that we have qtcreator installed and you know how to build something from a *.pro qt file (either from qtcreator, or from the command line). As external dependencies MeshLab uses the vcglib c++ library for most of the mesh processing tasks; so you need to clone it from github ( http://github.com/cnr-isti-vclab/vcglib/ ) in a folder named vcglib at the same level of the folder meshlab. To be clear your folder structure should be something quite similar to:

yourdevelfolder/
 |
 ├──meshlab
 │   ├──docs
 │   ├──README.md
 │   ├──src
 │   ├──...
 │   └──...
 └──vcglib
     ├──apps
     ├──doc
     ├──eigenlib
     ├──...
     └──...

All the include paths inside the .pro assume this relative positioning of the meshlab and vcglib folders.

Compiling

MeshLab has a plugin architecture and therefore all the plugins are compiled separately; some of them are harder to be compiled. Dont worry, if a plugin fails to compile just remove it and you lose just that functionality. As a first step you should try to use the src/meshlab_mini.pro that contains the info for building meshlab with a minimal set of plugins with no external dependencies and usually compile with no problem.

Some plugins of MeshLab need external libraries. All the required libraries are included in the meshlab/src/external folder. You have to compile these libraries before attempting to compile the whole MeshLab. Just use the meshlab/src/external.pro file. For OsX 10.12 we kindly provide the already compiled binaries.

Once you have the required lib (check for lib files in the folder meshlab/src/external/lib/<your_architecture>) you can try to compile the whole meshlab using src/meshlab_full.pro.

Platform specific notes

On osx some plugins exploit openmp parallelism (screened poisson, isoparametrization) so you need a compiler supporting it and the clang provided by xcode does not support openmp. Install 'clang++-mp-3.9' using macport or modify the .pro accordingly.