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- Panda3D is an open source 3D Engine originally developed, and still
- actively maintained, by the Walt Disney VR Studio. Additional
- development and support for the open source community is provided by
- the Entertainment Technology Center of Carnegie Mellon University.
- At the present, we are providing two completely unrelated systems for
- building Panda. The original build system, ppremake, is still in
- active use by the VR Studio, and is useful if you want advanced build
- control. The other build system, makepanda, is designed to build
- quickly and painlessly, and is used to generate the official releases.
- The ppremake system is a makefile generator, and allows you to
- configure your build environment to a high degree of customization.
- It is a fairly complex build system, and it requires some comfort with
- using the command-line make utilities.
- The makepanda system is a Python script that directly invokes the
- compiler to build the Panda sources. Its emphasis is on providing a
- hands-off, simple approach to building Panda.
- Both systems may require you to first install a number of third-party
- tools if you would like to make them available for Panda, such as
- FreeType or OpenSSL. You may also download a zip file that contains
- precompiled versions of these third-party libraries from the Panda
- website, which is especially useful when used in conjunction with the
- makepanda system.
- If you are interested in compiling Panda for yourself, you are welcome
- to use either build system. Please refer to the documents INSTALL-PP
- or INSTALL-MK, in this directory, for build instructions for ppremake
- and makepanda, respectively. You may also be interested in
- downloading the prebuilt Panda3D binaries from the Panda website at
- http://www.panda3d.org/ .
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