C++ Development Environment

C++
Development Environment

Introduction

This page provides information about the C++ development environments for Windows, MacOSX and Linux.

Windows Visual Studio Community 2019

Download link: Windows Visual Studio Community (VSC)

On Windows, when Cutter compiles and links it does so by referencing a Microsoft Visual Studio file named vcvars64.bat located in this directory,

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build

The Cutter pref that must be set to point to the full path of vcvars64.bat file is shown below.

Figure 1

Installing Windows Visual Studio Community 2019

Make sure the following options are selected.

Figure 2

Figure 3

Cutter Preferences

Pixar Devkit

If the reader intends to develop plugins, such as Pattern shaders and Procedural Primitives, for Pixar's RenderMan the following prefs must be set.

Figure 4

Figure 5

Arnold Devkit

If the reader intends to develop plugins, such as shaders, for Arnold the following prefs must be set.

Figure 6

MacOSX

On MacOSX, Cutter must have access the GNU development tools that are part of XCode. The reader can either download and install XCode - all 6GB. Or, they can install Homebrew and get as a "by-product" of it's installation just those XCode components that will enable them to peform C/C++ developement.

The prefs for MacOSX and Linux are already set.

Figure 7

Linux

Linux has the GNU development tools preinstalled so their is nothing to set up because Cutter's prefs are pre-set with the correct paths and compilation flags.