LeoCAD for Linux ---------------- This is the only documentation you will find for the Linux version, I'll start writing some help files in HTML format soon but it's going to take a while (I really prefer to code and my english is not perfect). I strongly advise you to follow the online tutorial from my web page, it will at least get you started with the basic editing commands. I still have to finish some dialogs, the printing routines and a few GUI items but all the rest should work fine. I'd also like to warn you that this is my first Linux program so if you find anything that doesn't behave as you expect, a bug or just have some suggestions, feel free to email me at leonardo@centroin.com.br I hope you enjoy using LeoCAD as much as I enjoyed writing it, Leonardo HOW TO GET HELP --------------- The best source of help is the LeoCAD mailing list at leocad@gerf.org You can subscribe/unsubscribe at http://gerf.org/mailman/listinfo/leocad INSTALLATION ------------ Instalation should be very simple for most systems, first you need get the executable and the pieces library from my homepage (if you already have the library for the MS Windows version, you don't need to download it again). Now you should unzip the files to a temporary directory (you probably already did that) and move the file 'leocad' to /usr/local/bin/ and the 4 files from the pieces library to /usr/local/share/leocad/. If you wish to have the library files installed in another place, set the environment variable LEOCAD_LIB to that directory or start the program with the -l option. You need to have an OpenGL library, you can download Mesa 3D from www.mesa3d.org if you don't have one already and you will also need GTK+ 1.2, it's available from www.gtk.org If you're using the precompiled version, then you will also need libjpeg, zlib and libpng. If you're compiling from the sources, the configuration utility will detect what libraries you have installed and only support those file formats. Current versions used are: GTK+ 1.2 http://www.gtk.org/ MESA 3D 3.4 http://www.mesa3d.org/ LIBJPEG 6.0 ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/ LIBPNG 1.0 http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html ZLIB 1.1 http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/ COMMAND LINE OPTIONS -------------------- The man (1) page has a more complete description of all command line parameters available. This is just a list of the most used ones: [filename]: Loads a file -l : Tells the program to use the piece library located in the directory pointed by -i [filename]: Saves a picture and exit -w : Use this width for the picture -h : Use this height for the picture Example: leocad car.lcd -i car.gif -w 640 -h 480 -l /mnt/c/leocad/ This will start LeoCAD, load the file "car.lcd", create a GIF file called "car.gif" with a resolution of 640 x 480 using the pieces library in /mnt/c/leocad/ and exit when done.