Compiling Physics Library Guide

Newton library is not in all repositories!

For example: Fedora 18!

Without this, it won't work well.

• libtool
• bullet-devel
• bullet-extra-devel

Execute ./autogen.sh May finish with warnings.

For instance, for finding Ogre in /usr/local/lib :

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

Execute ./configure

Some files need to be modified because are not for Ogre 1.8.1 nor for Bullet 2.8 neither for the actual g++.

A OgreBullet forum thread were of great help.

• Collisions/src
  • OgreBulletCollisionsWorld.cpp

    Find:

    btCollisionObject* obA = static_cast<btCollisionObject*>(contactManifold->getBody0());
    btCollisionObject* obB = static_cast<btCollisionObject*>(contactManifold->getBody1());
    

    and change into

    btCollisionObject* obA = const_cast<btCollisionObject*>(contactManifold->getBody0());
    btCollisionObject* obB = const_cast<btCollisionObject*>(contactManifold->getBody1());
    

  • OgreBulletCollisionsRay.cpp

    Line 87:

    return mWorld->findObject(const_cast<btCollisionWorld::ClosestRayResultCallback *> (mRayResultCallback)->m_collisionObject);
    

    to

    return mWorld->findObject(const_cast<btCollisionObject*>(static_cast<btCollisionWorld::ClosestRayResultCallback *> (mRayResultCallback)->m_collisionObject));
    

• Dynamics/src
  • Line 111:

    from:

    btCollisionObject* obA = static_cast<btCollisionObject*>(contactManifold->getBody0()); // For older Bullet versions (original code)
    btCollisionObject* obB = static_cast<btCollisionObject*>(contactManifold->getBody1()); // For older Bullet versions (original code)
    

    to

    btCollisionObject* obA = const_cast<btCollisionObject*>(contactManifold->getBody0());; // For newer Bullet versions
    btCollisionObject* obB = const_cast<btCollisionObject*>(contactManifold->getBody1()); // For newer Bullet versions
    

Execute make

Execute sudo make install

Or execute make install as superuser.