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).

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.

- Open CASCADE Technology usually installs itself automatically from CD-ROM and is correctly configured.

- If installation does not start automatically double-click setup.bat launcher from the distributive. Installation will start; for correct installation follow the instructions.

Possible problems:

If JAVA GUI interface does not start when you run the Installation Procedure, it means that there are conflicts between:

1. pre installed JAVA on the target station and JAVA used by the Installation Procedure, or

2. binaries of the target station kernel and the Installation Procedure binary

In order to avoid these problems you must:

1. in case of problem # 1 only start the Installation Procedure by means of the following command

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.

2. in case you have problem # 2 and JAVA has not been installed on your station, install JAVA on the target station then run the command stated above in paragraph (a)

When installation is complete, you will find the following directories:

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.