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The latest version of LoopTK is available here.

LoopTK should compile on any Linux or UNIX-based system.
See below for instructions on setting up LoopTK.

Instructions for first-time use

Download and install following libraries

• Mesa 3D Graphics Library, both the MesaLib and MesaGLUT packages.
• GLUI User Interface Library.
• GSL (GNU Scientific Library)

Compile the LoopTK library

1. Edit Makefile:
   • GLUT_INCLUDE - location of GLUT
   • GLUI_INCLUDE - location of GLUI
2. Compile with "make" command: compiles and installs the LoopTK library to lib/looptk.a

Create example LoopTK program

1. Edit doc/examples/Makefile:
   • XLIBDIR - location of XLIB
   • SYSLIBDIR - location of sys lib
   • GLUILIBDIR - location of GLUI
   • GLUTLIBDIR - location of GLUT
2. Edit doc/examples/main.cc
3. Compile by "make" to create an executable called "example"