techytoes/GSOC-VRPN

Google Summer of Code 2018 at Sofa-framework

VRPN

This repo contains all my work that I did related to the GSOC project.

Installing VRPN

• MacOS

$ brew install vrpn

To run the example

$ g++ test.cpp -lvrpn -lpthread
$ ./a.out

• Linux

Download VRPN source (version 7.33):

wget https://github.com/vrpn/vrpn/releases/download/v07.33/vrpn_07_33.zip

Extract source archive:

unzip vrpn_07_33.zip

We don't need the archive anymore. So let's delete it:

rm -f vrpn_07_33.zip

Change to source directory:

cd vrpn

Create a build directory and go into it:

mkdir build && cd build

Generate build environment using cmake:

cmake ..

Build project:

make

Install VRPN:

sudo make install

QtCreator

CMAKE-GUI Configuration

How to Use ServerCommunication VRPN

Receiver

<ServerCommunicationVRPN name="vrpn1" job="receiver" address="localhost"/>
<CommunicationSubscriber name="sub1" communication="@vrpn1" subject="testing" target="@light1" datas="cutoff"/>

Sender

<ServerCommunicationVRPN name="vrpn1" job="sender" address="localhost"/>
<CommunicationSubscriber name="sub1" communication="@vrpn1" subject="testing" target="@light1" datas="cutoff"/>