lhutton1 / moebinv-gui

A GUI for the Moebinv library for visualising transformations and manipulations of non-euclidian geometry

moebinv-gui

This QT application provides a GUI for the moebinv package.

Note: Further development has made on this project. For the most recent up-to-date application, along with moebinv itself: http://moebinv.sourceforge.net/

Introduction

The moebinv library allows for manipulations in non euclidean geometry. This application is a gui for use with the moebinv library.

Installation

Prerequisites:

• CLN
• GiNaC
• moebinv

Installation on Mac:

1. Install Homebrew.

Paste this into a terminal: /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

You may need to agree to the installation of Xcode.

2. Make sure that your mac has a GCC version greater than 4.4.

You can do this by typing gcc --version

If not excecute: brew install https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-dupes/master/gcc.rb rm -v /usr/bin/{cc,gcc,c++,g++} ln -sv /usr/local/bin/gcc-4.x /usr/bin/cc ln -sv /usr/local/bin/gcc-4.x /usr/bin/gcc ln -sv /usr/local/bin/c++-4.x /usr/bin/c++ ln -sv /usr/local/bin/g++-4.x /usr/bin/g++

3. Install GiNaC and Cmake using homebrew: brew install ginac brew install cmake

4. Install MoebInv

• Download the latest version of MoebInv here: https://sourceforge.net/p/moebinv/

• Navigate to the src file in a terminal

• Type make

• Make sure MoebInv-gui can find the library files by either:

  • Placing figure.h and cycle.h in /usr/local/include and placing libfigure.so and libcycle.so in /usr/local/lib
  • Or by placing the files in the lib folder in the downloaded moebinv-gui.

5. Install Qt using home brew: brew install qt

6. Install MoebInv-gui

• clone the moebInv-gui repository from: https://github.com/lhutton1/moebinv-gui by executing: git clone https://github.com/lhutton1/moebinv-gui
• open a terminal in this directory or directly after executing the clone command execute cd moebinv-gui
• build the make file by executing qmake
• compile the application by executing make
• install the documentation by running make install
• run the application by execting ./moebinv-gui

or

• run the .sh script mac-install.sh