VMWare Workstation 12.0

This document walks you through setting up Cinder in a Ubuntu 15.10 guest running under VMWare Workstation 12.0.

Kernel Setup

Workstation natively supports OpenGL up to version 2.0 but the minimum requirement for Cinder is 3.2. So we'll need to install support for it.

In a newly installed version of Ubuntu, create a vmware-mesa.sh with the following content.

#!/bin/sh

# File: vm-

# Builds and install kernel modules for OpenGL 3.3 Core Profile on 
# Ubuntu 15.10 running on VMWare Workstation 12 and VMWare Fusion 8. 
#
# Host OS (Linux, OS X, or Windows)  must have at least OpenGL 
# Core Profile 4.0 support. 
#
# Extracted from here: http://www.mesa3d.org/vmware-guest.html
#

sudo apt-get -y install git git-core gcc g++
sudo apt-get -y install automake libtool libpthread-stubs0-dev
sudo apt-get -y install xserver-xorg-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev libx11-xcb-dev
sudo apt-get -y install libxcb-glx0-dev libxrender-dev
sudo apt-get -y install mesa-utils xutils-dev
sudo apt-get -y build-dep libgl1-mesa-dri libxcb-glx0-dev

export TOP=$PWD
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/mesa
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/vmwgfx
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-vmware

export LIBDIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

cd $TOP/drm
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=${LIBDIR}
make -j 4
sudo make install

cd $TOP/mesa
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=${LIBDIR} --with-gallium-drivers=svga --with-dri-drivers=swrast --enable-xa --disable-dri3 --enable-glx-tls
make -j 4
sudo make install

cd $TOP/xf86-video-vmware
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=${LIBDIR}
make -j 4
sudo make install

mkdir -p $TOP/vmware-mesa-backup
sudo cp /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx.ko* $TOP/vmware-mesa-backup
sudo rm /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx.ko*

cd $TOP/vmwgfx
make -j 4
sudo make install
sudo depmod -a

sudo update-initramfs -u

echo vmwgfx | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

# Prints out the installed location of vmwgfx.ko
find /lib/modules -name vmwgfx.ko -exec ls -l '{}' \;

Source - chaoticbob/Cinder

Now run. It should take about 10-20 minutes to finish.

$ chmod +x vmware-mesa.sh
$ ./vmware-mesa.sh

Once it's done, reboot the VMWare Workstation guest.

Building

Let's install Cinder.

sudo apt-get install -y \
    cmake \
    clang \
    libxcursor-dev \
    libxrandr-dev \
    libxinerama-dev \
    libxi-dev \
    libgl1-mesa-dev \
    zlib1g-dev \
    libfontconfig1-dev \
    libmpg123-dev \
    libsndfile1 \
    libsndfile1-dev \
    libpulse-dev \
    libasound2-dev \
    libcurl4-gnutls-dev \
    libgstreamer1.0-dev \
    libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev \
    libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev \
    gstreamer1.0-libav \
    gstreamer1.0-alsa \
    gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio \
    gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad

# Building
git clone --recursive -b cmake https://github.com/cinder/Cinder.git cinder
cd cinder/linux
./cibuild

# Testing
cd ../samples/_opengl/NormalMapping/linux
./cibuild
./Debug/ogl/NormalMapping

You should now be seeing this, which means the installation was a success!

Next Steps

Now head on to the Getting Started guide.