Potential: How to install and compile Bullet Physics SDK on Ubuntu Linux

I've been wanting to improve how my simulation looks. I've also been wanting to integrate a scene graph to improve performance and physics to improve realism.

In regards to looks, I want something that is clean, simple and professional. For example, I like how the Bullet Physics SDK demos look.

I also like how the AI Sandbox looks.

To that end I decided to build from the Bullet Physics SDK sample applications.

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Update your list of applications.

$ sudo apt-get update

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Get CMake.

$ sudo apt-get cmake

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Get CMake to create Makefiles for you.

$ cmake -G "Unix Makefiles"

-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc

-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works

-- Check size of void*

-- Check size of void* - done

-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++

-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works

-- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXext.so

-- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXext.so - found

-- Looking for gethostbyname

-- Looking for gethostbyname - found

-- Looking for connect

-- Looking for connect - found

-- Looking for remove

-- Looking for remove - found

-- Looking for shmat

-- Looking for shmat - found

-- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE

-- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE - found

OPENGL FOUND

/usr/lib/libGLU.so/usr/lib/libGL.so-lSM-lICE/usr/lib/libX11.so/usr/lib/libXext.so

CMake Error: This project requires some variables to be set,

and cmake can not find them.

Please set the following variables:

GLUT_INCLUDE_DIR (ADVANCED)

GLUT_glut_LIBRARY (ADVANCED)



-- Configuring done

My system did not have GLUT so CMake could not create Makefiles for me.

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Get GLUT.

$ sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev

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Get CMake to create Makefiles for you.

$ cmake -G "Unix Makefiles"

OPENGL FOUND

/usr/lib/libGLU.so/usr/lib/libGL.so-lSM-lICE/usr/lib/libX11.so/usr/lib/libXext.so

GLUT FOUND

/usr/lib/libglut.so

-- Configuring done

-- Generating done

-- Build files have been written to: /home/binh/Desktop/bullet-2.75

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I don't know what this does but you'll need to do this step.

$ ./autogen.sh

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Configure your Makefiles.

$ ./configure

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Build Bullet Physis SDK and the Demos.

$ make

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6 comments:

Anonymous6 January 2011 at 07:41
Thanks for this. I think the line

% sudo apt-get cmake

should read

% sudo apt-get install cmake

Cheers, Jon
Binh Nguyen8 January 2011 at 13:11
Hi Jon,

Thanks for stopping by, leaving a comment and letting me know about the fix. Much appreciated!
Anonymous22 January 2011 at 20:22
There was no ./configure, and ./autogen.sh errored if I tried to execute it.

However after cmake -G "Unix Makefiles", and then just doing make, it built 100% anyway...

regards
Binh Nguyen23 January 2011 at 23:43
Hi Rommel,

Thanks for pointing that out, much appreciated.

Binh
Patrick9 April 2011 at 02:07
If configure.sh or autogen.ah throw errors then try running:

sudo apt-get install automake
sudo apt-get install libtool

and then redoing the ./autogen.sh then ./configure.sh

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How to install and compile Bullet Physics SDK on Ubuntu Linux

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