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