Setting Up Your Development Environment

This section contains the following topics:

• Include Files Path

• Library Files Path

• Additional SDKs

• Microsoft Visual C++ Settings

Include Files Path

All include files for the Realtime shader API v3.0 and Softimage SDK are stored under %XSI_HOME%\XSISDK\include.

Library Files Path

All libraries are stored under %XSI_HOME%\XSISDK\lib\nt-x86.

Additional SDKs

You may need to install additional SDKs in order to compile some of the examples.

• Microsoft DirectX: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/directx/default.aspx

• OpenGL SDK: http://www.opengl.org/sdk/

• NVidia Cg: http://developer.nvidia.com/page/cg_main.html

Microsoft Visual C++ Settings

• Make sure your include and library paths are pointing in the right directories.

• The C runtime library should be Multithreaded DLL.

• Start Visual Studio from a Softimage command prompt to ensure that all environment variables are set properly

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