======= License

SALOME platform is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. See COPYING file for more details.

============ Installation

SALOME platform relies on a set of third-party softwares; some of them are needed at build time only, while other ones are needed in runtime also.

For more information about the pre-requisites please visit SALOME platform web site:

Check Release Notes and Software Requirements of the latest SALOME release at

https://www.salome-platform.org/?page_id=15/

Note: SALOME GUI module needs SALOME KERNEL as a pre-requisite.

The build procedure of the SALOME platform is implemented with CMake. In order to build the module you have to do the following actions:

Set up environment for pre-requisites (see "Pre-requisites" section above).
Create a build directory:

% mkdir GUI_BUILD
Configure the build procedure:

% cd GUI_BUILD % cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE= -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=

where
- is either Release or Debug (default: Release);
- is a destination folder to install SALOME GUI module (default: /usr);
- is a path to the SALOME GUI sources directory.
Note: by default (if CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX option is not given), SALOME GUI module will be configured for installation to the /usr directory that requires root permissions to complete the installation.
Build and install:

% make % make install

This will install SALOME GUI module to the specified to cmake command on the previous step.

SALOME GUI module supports a set of advanced configuration options; for more details learn CMakeLists.txt file in the root source directory.

You can also use other options of cmake command to customize your installation. Learn more about available options by typing

% cmake --help

The directory doc contains additional documentation file of SALOME GUI module.

Please, send a mail to webmaster.salome@opencascade.com.