SolveSpace
This repository contains the source code of SolveSpace, a parametric
2d/3d CAD tool.
Community
The official SolveSpace website has tutorials,
reference manual and a forum; there is also an official
IRC channel #solvespace at web.libera.chat.
Installation
Via Official Packages
Official release packages for macOS (>=10.6 64-bit) and Windows
(>=Vista 32-bit) are available via GitHub releases. These packages are
automatically built by the SolveSpace maintainers for each stable release.
Via Flathub
Official releases can be installed as a Flatpak from Flathub.
Get SolveSpace from Flathub
These should work on any Linux distribution that supports Flatpak.
Via Snap Store
Official releases can be installed from the stable channel.
Builds from master are automatically released to the edge channel in the Snap
Store. Those packages contain the latest improvements, but receive less testing
than release builds.
Or install from a terminal:
# for the latest stable release:
snap install solvespace
# for the bleeding edge builds from master:
snap install solvespace --edge
Via automated edge builds
:warning: Edge builds might be unstable or contain severe bugs!
They are intended for experienced users to test new features or verify bugfixes.
Cutting edge builds from the latest master commit are available as zip archives
from the following links:
Please note that the 64bit Windows versions do not support 6DOF (SpeceMouse, SpaceNavigator) controllers.
Extract the downloaded archive and install or execute the contained file as is
appropriate for your platform.
Via source code
Irrespective of the OS used, before building, check out the project and the
necessary submodules:
git clone https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace
cd solvespace
git submodule update --init
You will need git. See the platform specific instructions below to install it.
Building on Linux
Building for Linux
You will need the usual build tools, CMake, zlib, libpng, cairo, freetype. To
build the GUI, you will need fontconfig, gtkmm 3.0 (version 3.16 or later) and
pangomm 1.4 for GTK, gtkmm 4.0 (version 4.12 or later) for the newer GTK 4
interface, or QT6 for the newer QT interface, OpenGL and OpenGL GLU, and
optionally, the Space Navigator client library.
On a Debian derivative (e.g. Ubuntu) these can be installed with:
sudo apt install git build-essential cmake zlib1g-dev libpng-dev \
libcairo2-dev libfreetype6-dev libjson-c-dev \
libfontconfig1-dev libpangomm-1.4-dev libgl-dev \
libglu-dev libspnav-dev libgtkmm-3.0-dev libgtkmm-4.0-dev \
qt6-base-dev
On a RedHat derivative (e.g. Fedora) the dependencies can be installed with:
sudo dnf install git gcc-c++ cmake zlib-devel libpng-devel \
cairo-devel freetype-devel json-c-devel \
fontconfig-devel pangomm-devel mesa-libGL-devel \
mesa-libGLU-devel libspnav-devel gtkmm30-devel \
gtkmm4.0-devel qt6-qtbase-devel
gtkmm30-devel is required to build the GTK version, gtkmm4.0-devel is required to build the GTK 4 version, and
qt6-qtbase-devel is required to build the QT version. Any of them may be omitted if that version is not needed.
Likewise with libgtkmm-3.0-dev, libgtkmm-4.0-dev and qt6-base-dev for Debuntu respectively.
Before building, check out the project and the necessary submodules.
After that, build SolveSpace as following:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DENABLE_OPENMP=ON [-DENABLE_LTO=ON] [-DUSE_QT_GUI=ON | -DUSE_GTK4_GUI=ON] [-DENABLE_GUI=OFF]
make
# Optionally
sudo make install
Optional:
- -DENABLE_LTO=ON: Enable Link Time Optimization at the expense of longer build time.
- -DUSE_QT_GUI=ON: Build the newer QT GUI interface.
- -DUSE_GTK4_GUI=ON: Build the newer GTK 4 GUI interface instead of GTK 3.
- -DENABLE_GUI=OFF: Build only the command-line interface
The GTK graphical interface is built as build/bin/solvespace, and the command-line
interface is built as build/bin/solvespace-cli. The QT graphical interface is built as
build/bin/solvespace-qt.
Building for Windows
Ubuntu will require 20.04 or above. Cross-compiling with WSL is also confirmed
to work.
You will need the usual build tools, CMake, and a Windows cross-compiler. On a
Debian derivative (e.g. Ubuntu) these can be installed with:
apt-get install git build-essential cmake mingw-w64
Before building, check out the project and the necessary submodules.
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