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lutusptoday at 6:51 AM3 repliesview on HN

Okay, but unless you choose to download the Windows executable, compiling from source is very difficult. Many people won't accept the Snap option on an otherwise open-source platform.

This project improves on SolveSpace, but it does this by requiring dozens of mutually conflicting libraries. I create CAD videos, but for my students I decided against this project after seeing how difficult it was to compile.

A FlatPak installer might help with this installation issue.

Again, the Windows executable gets around these issues, for people still willing to put up with Windows.


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snoopentoday at 7:14 AM

Even an AppImage would be great.

vincnetastoday at 8:27 AM

took me two commands to get binary on osx. (i had brew already)

brew install ... and ./scripts/build_macos.sh

For windows instructions look equally trivial.