The following document gives the list of Open Inventor files that your C++ application must embed on Linux.

Most of the required files are Shared Object libraries (.so files) located in the folder $OIVHOME/arch-Linux-x86_64-gcc8-release/lib or $OIVHOME/arch-Linux-x86_64-gcc9-release/lib. $OIVHOME specifies the root folder where Open Inventor SDK is installed on your machine. This path is referred to as [...]/lib in the rest of this document.

The required files that are described below must be copied in a targeted runtime folder of your application.

Note

You are not allowed to distribute any Open Inventor SDK files that are only used to compile or debug your C++ application. So do not copy any file from the following list:

$OIVHOME/include
$OIVHOME/arch-Linux-x86_64-gccXX-debug

Inventor Core

kernel (always required)

The following files are required and correspond to the minimal kernel that must copied into the targeted runtime folder of your application.

Component	Linux file name	default path	comments
Inventor	libfei_inventor.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_inventor_image.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_inventor_gl.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_inventor_renderengine.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_glew.so	[...]/lib
Inventor base	libfei_inventor_base.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_zlib.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_freetype.so	[...]/lib
Image readers	iolink.so	[...]/lib
Image readers	ioformat.so	[...]/lib
boost	fei_boost_iostreams-mt.so	[...]/lib
boost	libfei_boost_system-mt.so	[...]/lib
boost	libfei_boost_date_time-mt.so	[...]/lib
boost	libfei_boost_thread-mt.so	[...]/lib
boost	libfei_boost_iostreams-mt.so	[...]/lib
boost	libfei_boost_filesystem-mt.so	[...]/lib
boost	libfei_boost_log-mt.so	[...]/lib
Intel TBB	libfei_tbb.so	[...]/lib
dragger data	draggerDefaults/*	$OIVHOME/data	dragger files
OIV fonts	fonts/*	$OIVHOME/data	font files

optional files

Depending on file type or specific feature that can be used by your application, the following files may also be necessary. They are dynamically loaded from a path specified by the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH or $OIV_LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.

Component	Linux file name	default path	comments
	libfei_proj4.so	[...]/lib	required only by SoGeoProjection: Cartographic projection support
	libfei_libjpeg.so	[...]/lib	required only if JPEG images are used, e.g. with SoTexture2 or SoJPEGImageRW
Image readers	ioformat-bmp.so	[...]/lib/ioplugins	required only if bmp images are used
Image readers	ioformat-gif.so	[...]/lib/ioplugins	required only if gif images are used
Image readers	ioformat-mrc.so	[...]/lib/ioplugins	required only if mrc images are used
Image readers	ioformat-openjpeg.so	[...]/lib/ioplugins	required only if openjpeg images are used
Image readers	ioformat-png.so	[...]/lib/ioplugins	required only if png images are used
Image readers	ioformat-tiff.so	[...]/lib/ioplugins	required only if tiff images are used
	libfei_inventor_io_stl.so	[...]/lib	required only by SoSTLInputReader to import STL file
	libfei_inventor_io_dxf.so	[...]/lib	required only to import DXF file
	libfei_inventor_io_vrml.so	[...]/lib	required only to import VRML file
	libfei_smlib.so	[...]/lib	required only by SoCSGShape

Note

Your application can ask Open Inventor to load alternate versions of these .so files. For this, you have to use the following environment variables:

OIV_LIBPROJ4_NAME: Cartographic projection support
OIV_LIBJPEG_NAME: JPEG support (import/export)
OIV_ZLIB_NAME: Compression library
OIV_FREETYPE_NAME: FreeType font support

If you have chosen to use one or more alternate .so files, be sure to distribute the alternate files that your application needs.

Viewers

Xt viewers

If your application uses some classes in Xt, it requires all libraries from Open Inventor core in addition to the following ones:

Component	Linux file name	default path	comments
	libfei_inventor_ui.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_scaleViz.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_inventor_ui_xt.so	[...]/lib

Qt viewers

If your application uses some classes in Qt, it requires all libraries from Open Inventor core in addition to the following ones:

Component	Linux file name	default path	comments
	libfei_inventor_ui.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_scaleViz.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_inventor_ui_qt.so	[...]/lib
	libQt5Widgets.so	[...]/lib
	libQt5Core.so	[...]/lib
	libQt5Gui.so	[...]/lib

Qt viewer components

If your application uses some classes in Qt ViewerComponents, it requires all libraries from Open Inventor core in addition to the following ones:

Component	Linux file name	default path	comments
	libfei_inventor_ViewerComponents.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_inventor_QtViewerComponents.so	[...]/lib
	libQt5Core.so	[...]/lib
	libQt5Gui.so	[...]/lib
	libQt5Widgets.so	[...]/lib
	libQt5Network.so	[...]/lib
	libQt5Quick.so	[...]/lib
	libQt5QmlModels.so	[...]/lib
	libQt5Qml.so	[...]/lib
	libQt5QmlWorkerScript.so	[...]/lib

Base view

The following .so files are necessary if your application use one of the following:

the class PoSceneView
the class PoView

Component	Linux file name	default path	comments
	libfei_inventor_ui.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_scaleViz.so	[...]/lib

Extensions

VolumeViz extension

If your application uses some classes in VolumeViz or in LDM, it requires all libraries from Open Inventor core in addition to the following ones:

Component	Linux file name	default path	comments
VolumeViz	libfei_volumeViz.so	[...]/lib
LDM	libfei_ldm.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_inventor_ui.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_scaleViz.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_inventor_computing_algorithms.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_libjpeg.so	[...]/lib	required only if using jpeg files

RemoteViz, (server side)

If your application uses some classes in RemoteViz, it requires all libraries from Open Inventor core in addition to the following ones:

Component	Linux file name	default path	comments
	libfei_remoteViz_services.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_remoteViz_jpeg_codec.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_remoteViz_nvidia_video_codec.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_remoteViz_png_codec.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_remoteViz_FFmpeg_codec.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_FFmpeg_avcodec.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_FFmpeg_avfilter.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_FFmpeg_avformat.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_FFmpeg_avutil.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_FFmpeg_swresample.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_FFmpeg_swscale.so	[...]/lib

RemoteViz, (client side)

If you want to build a client application without any browser, it requires all libraries from Open Inventor core in addition to the following ones:

Component	Linux file name	default path	comments
	libfei_remoteViz_client.so	[...]/lib

MeshViz

If your application uses some classes in MeshViz, it requires all libraries from Open Inventor core in addition to the following ones:

Component	Linux file name	default path	comments
	libfei_meshViz.so	[...]/lib

MeshViz XLM

If your application uses some classes in MeshVizXLM, it requires all libraries from Open Inventor core in addition to the following ones:

Component	Linux file name	default path	comments
	libfei_meshVizXLM_dataMapping.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_meshVizXLM_extractor.so	[...]/lib

Medical

If your application uses some classes in Medical, it requires all libraries from Open Inventor core in addition to the following ones:

Component	Linux file name	default path	comments
	libfei_inventor_medical.so	[...]/lib

HardCopy

If your application uses some classes in HardCopy, it requires all libraries from Open Inventor core in addition to the following ones:

Linux file name	default path	comments
libfei_hardCopy.so	[...]/lib
libfei_hardCopy_pdf.so	[...]/lib
libfei_ifx_core.so	[...]/lib
libfei_ifx_exporting.so	[...]/lib
libfei_ifx_scheduling.so	[...]/lib
libfei_hpdf.so	[...]/lib	PDF/U3D support

IvTune

IvTune is an extension mainly designed for scene graph editing or debugging. So we do not recommend to embed any IvTune components in your application: It would be a way for the end user to change the scene graph of your application without any control.

However, we indicate below the list of files used by IvTune for your information.

Component	Linux file name	default path	comments
	libfei_ivTune.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_ivTune_extender.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_ivTune_extender_base.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_ivTune_extender_inventor.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_ivTune_extender_volumeVizLDM.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_inventor_io_genericFile.so	[...]/lib
	libQt5Core.so	[...]/lib
	libQt5Gui.so	[...]/lib
	libQt5Widgets.so	[...]/lib
	libQt5OpenGL.so	[...]/lib
	libQt5Xml.so	[...]/lib
	IvtConfiguration.xml	OIVHOME/data/IvTune
	IvtConfiguration.xsd	OIVHOME/data/IvTune
	PerfCounter.xml	OIVHOME/data/IvTune

DialogViz

DialogViz is an extension mainly designed for testing purpose and to write simple Open Inventor examples with a very basic GUI. So we do not suggest to embed any DialogViz components in your application.

For your information, we indicate below the list of files only used by DialogViz.

Component	Linux file name	default path	comments
	libfei_dialogViz.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_inventor_ui_dialogs.so	[...]/lib
	libfei_dialogViz_qt.so	[...]/lib

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