OpenSceneGraph on Linux (OpenGL3)

This page describes one possible OpenSceneGraph (version 3.1.8 as of this writing) build config for Linux that builds OSG only against OpenGL 3 (no deprecated functionality).

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• Get the source (from openscenegraph.com, github.com/openscenegraph, etc.)
• Create a build directory

$ /home/preet/Downloads/packages/BUILD/osg-src     // assume this is the source dir
$ mkdir /home/preet/Downloads/packages/BUILD/osg-build

• Run CMake from the build directory

$ cmake-gui ../osg-src

• Press Configure and use Unix Native
• Check the Advanced checkbox (next to the Search text input)
• Set/adjust the following options

CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX : /your/install/path
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: RelWithDebInfo (or Debug, Release)
OPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR: add path to /GL3/gl3.h if its not in /usr/include
OSG_GL1_AVAILABLE: NO
OSG_GL2_AVAILABLE: NO
OSG_GL3_AVAILABLE: YES
OSG_GLES1_AVAILABLE: NO
OSG_GLES2_AVAILABLE: NO
OSG_GL_DISPLAYLISTS_AVAILABLE: NO
OSG_GL_FIXED_FUNCTION_AVAILABLE: NO
OSG_GL_LIBRARY_STATIC: NO
OSG_GL_MATRICES_AVAILABLE: NO
OSG_GL_VERTEX_ARRAY_FUNCS_AVAILABLE: NO
OSG_GL_VERTEX_FUNCS_AVAILABLE: NO

• Press Configure again
• Press Generate
• Close the CMake-gui dialog
• In the build, run

$ make && make install