Building on Linux

From LuxRender Wiki

You can find help about how to compile the Luxrender source in the dedicated forum. Please, do not underestimate the value of a well compiled/optimized binary for your platform: a statically linked, well optimized binary compiled with Intel CC can be up to 40% faster than a generic version compiled with GCC.

Ubuntu / Debian

First of all, you need to install a couple of required packages:

sudo apt-get install cvs
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install cmake
sudo apt-get install bison flex libboost-dev libfltk1.1-dev libboost-thread-dev \
  libboost-date-time-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-filesystem-dev \
  libopenexr-dev libboost-iostreams-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-serialization-dev \
  libboost-wave-dev libtiff4-dev libpng12-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev glutg3-dev

then invoke:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.nongnu.org:/sources/ecume co lux
cmake lux
make

LuxRender has been successfully compiled on:

* Ubuntu 7.10
* Ubuntu 8.04
* Debian 4 "etch" and "lenny", both intel and PPC.

Compile with Intel Compiler (single pass method)

First of all install the Intel C++ Compiler. It is available for free for non-commercial use at Intel web site. Follow the installation instructions and verify it works:

source /opt/intel/cc/10.1.015/bin/iccvars.sh
icpc --version

The output should be something like:

icpc (ICC) 10.1 20080312
Copyright (C) 1985-2008 Intel Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Some platforms could require libstdc++5 in order to run the icc compiler:

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

Checkout the latest sources form the LuxRender CVS:

mkdir luxrender
cd luxrender
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.nongnu.org:/sources/ecume co lux

Now edit the lux/CMakeLists.txt and change the lines:

# Dade - default compiler options
ADD_DEFINITIONS(-O2 -DLUX_USE_OPENGL -DHAVE_PTHREAD_H)

to:

# Dade - default compiler options (single pass, 32bit)
ADD_DEFINITIONS(-O3 -ip -mtune=core2 -xT -unroll -fp-model fast=2 -rcd -no-prec-div -DLUX_USE_OPENGL -DHAVE_PTHREAD_H '-D"__sync_fetch_and_add(ptr,addend)=_InterlockedExchangeAdd(const_cast<void*>(reinterpret_cast<volatile void*>(ptr)), addend)"')

NOTE: 64bit requires some additional define (i.e. -DBOOST_NO_INTRINSIC_INT64_T "-D'__builtin_vsnprintf(__out, __size, __fmt, __args)'='__builtin_vsnprintf(__out, __size, __fmt, (char *) __args)'"):

# Dade - default compiler options (single pass, 64bit)
ADD_DEFINITIONS(-O3 -ip -mtune=core2 -xT -unroll -fp-model fast=2 -rcd -no-prec-div -DLUX_USE_OPENGL -DHAVE_PTHREAD_H '-D"__sync_fetch_and_add(ptr,addend)=_InterlockedExchangeAdd(const_cast<void*>(reinterpret_cast<volatile void*>(ptr)), addend)"' -DBOOST_NO_INTRINSIC_INT64_T "-D'__builtin_vsnprintf(__out, __size, __fmt, __args)'='__builtin_vsnprintf(__out, __size, __fmt, (char *) __args)'") 

Now execute the following commands (edit paths if you installed the Intel compiler in another place, if you did a 32/64bit installation on a 64bit machine the correct path could be "/opt/intel/cce/10.1.015/bin" instead "/opt/intel/cc/10.1.015/bin"):

source /opt/intel/cc/10.1.015/bin/iccvars.sh
rm -rf CMakeCache.txt CMakeFiles
CC=/opt/intel/cc/10.1.015/bin/icc CXX=/opt/intel/cc/10.1.015/bin/icpc cmake lux

The output should be something like:

-- Check for working C compiler: /opt/intel/cc/10.1.015/bin/icc
-- Check for working C compiler: /opt/intel/cc/10.1.015/bin/icc -- works
-- Check size of void*
-- Check size of void* - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /opt/intel/cc/10.1.015/bin/icpc
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /opt/intel/cc/10.1.015/bin/icpc -- works
-- /usr/lib
-- /usr/include
-- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib/libz.so
-- Found PNG: /usr/lib/libpng.so
-- Found TIFF
-- Found JPEG: /usr/lib/libjpeg.so
-- /usr/include
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/david/tmp/luxrender

Now you can compile:

make

After a while the luxconsole and luxRender executable will be available in the current directory.

Fedora

Update your apt database first:

sudo yum update

Then install the dependencies:

sudo yum install cmake
sudo yum install bison flex fltk boost fltk-devel OpenEXR OpenEXR-devel wxGTK wxGTK-devel

than invoke:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.nongnu.org:/sources/ecume co lux
cmake lux
make

LuxRender has been successfully compiled under:

Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)

Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)

Gentoo

For a gentoo ebuild visit: http://www.luxrender.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=384&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a