Overview
Open CASCADE Technology installation Starting from version 6.3. Open CASCADE Technology can be installed with binaries precompiled by Visual C++ 7.1 using Installation Procedure under Windows platform only The source package and the building tools will be available for self-dependent preparation binary files on Unix and windows platforms.
Installation under Windows
Recommendation: If you have a previous version of OCCT installed on your station, it should be uninstalled (Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs) before the installation of this new version of Open CASCADE Technology, otherwise certain problems may arise (conflict of system variables, paths, etc). |
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Attention: For full installation Open CASCADE Technology requires approximately 550 Mb of disk space but during the process of installation you will need 1,3Gb of free disk space.
Possible problems: If JAVA GUI interface does not start when you run the Installation Procedure, it means that there are conflicts between:
In order to avoid these problems you must:
java -cp path_to_file_setup.jar <-Dtemp.dir=path_to_tmp_directory> run
where: path_to_file_setup.jar - is a full path to the file setup.jar downloaded from Open CASCADE website; path_to_tmp_directory - is a full path to a directory for temporary files on the target machine. Parameter -Dtemp.dir=path_to_tmp_directory is optional and can be omitted in the command line.
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When installation is complete, you will find the following directories:
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Description of directory tree data - This folder contains files in different formats, which can be used to test the functionalities of Open CASCADE Technology; doc – This folder contains Open CASCADE Technology Overview documentation; ros/adm - This folder contains WOK administration files, which allow rebuilding Open CASCADE; ros/adm/win32 - This folder contains Visual Studio workspace for Visual C++ 6.0., 7.1. and 8.0., which allows rebuilding Open CASCADE Technology under Windows platform in 32-bit mode; ros/adm/win64 - This folder contains Visual Studio workspace for Visual C++ 8.0., which allows rebuilding Open CASCADE Technology under Windows platform in 64-bit mode; ros/drv - This folder contains source files generated by WOK (private header files and instantiations of generic classes); ros/inc - This folder contains all Open CASCADE Technology header files; ros/src - This folder contains Open CASCADE Technology source files. They are organized in folders, one per development unit; ros/win32 - This folder contains executable (bin,bind) and library (lib,libd) files built in debug and optimize mode for Windows platform; Samples - This folder contains Standard samples of applications and Tutorial; tools - This folder contains OCAF Browser and MFC wizards for building applications; wok – This folder contains WOK (Workshop Organization Kit) tool which helps to organize large scale projects where programmers work in teams; 3rdparty - This folder contains third party libraries (Java, QT and Tcl) necessary to start applications samples; uninstall - service directory of Install Shield Multiplatform files for uninstall of Open CASCADE Technology.
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