PROBLEMS WHILE GETTING STARTED WITH ANIMATA

Hello!

I'm a media & interactiondesign-student doing an interactive
audio-visual-installation for an exhibition. and really would like to use 
the possibility to feed animata with user-generated data from pure data.

Because i'm comeing more from the visual than programming side my questions
migth sound stupid. Facing the danger, here they are:

It's about the "compiling-thing". From 
http://code.google.com/p/animata/source/browse/trunk/README
i've if got this:

"Installing 
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Animata requires:

FLTK (1.1.x)    http://www.fltk.org/

Installing on Windows
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On Windows Animata is compiled from Cygwin (http://cygwin.org/).

Cygwin packages: python, subversion, fltk-devel, libjpeg-devel, libjpg62
libpng12, libpng12-devel, gcc-core, gcc-g++

Download the Scons tarball from http://scons.org, and copy it to your cygwin
home directory. Then type:
tar -zxvf scons-1.2.0.tar.gz
cd scons-1.2.0
python setup.py install"

So that's where my stupid begins.
I downloaded and extracted (no installation needed) FLTK (version 1.1.x).
I downloaded and installed CYGWIN (version 1.5.25)
I installed all packages, because exept "python" i didn't find the others
in the list.
I downloaded the file "scons-1.2.0.tar.gz" and copied it to the 
CYGWIN home directory (which is where the *.bat, *.ico and 12 folders are?)
I didn't get the "On Windows Animata is compiled from Cygwin" and
"Then type:
tar -zxvf scons-1.2.0.tar.gz
cd scons-1.2.0
python setup.py install".

Which *.exe file in which folder is the programm to compile with?
Means to compile to copy the sourcecode, paste it in a window and push a
button named "compile"? And where do i type the "tar -zxvf..." in?  

Sorry. I really tried to find the info, but no success.

I would be really happy for some hints and
thank you for the animata-project. 
It gives interaction- & animation-strategies 
new possibilities to pool together. 

-bests, haellmuth

obstlieder@yahoo.de
www.haellmuth.com
Original issue reported on code.google.com by obstlie...@yahoo.de on 5 Dec 2009 at 11:23
belma / animata

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