Install CGAL and CGAL-python

0. Prerequisites

Boost http://www.boost.org
sudo apt-get install libboost-python1.34.1
GMP http://gmplib.org/
sudo apt-get install python-gmpy # will also install libgmp3c2
MPFR http://www.mpfr.org/
(search in synaptic )

1. Install CGAL 3.3.1
sudo apt-get install libcgal2 libcgal-dev libcgal-demo
or
Goto http://www.cgal.org/cgi-bin/cgal_download.pl
./install_cgal -i

2. Install CGAL-python 0.9.3
https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=320
follow "readme" instruction.
Homepage: http://cgal-python.gforge.inria.fr/

图简单，可以安装 0.9.1版本。在http://amcg.ese.ic.ac.uk/~pfarrell/python-cgal/ 有一个python-cgal 0.9.1的deb安装包，可用！


安装 python-cgal 0.9.3 (with Ubuntu 8.10, python2.5)

按readme安装后，输入
$python
>>> from CGAL.Triangulations_2 import *
出现如下错误：

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "CGAL/__init__.py", line 3, in
from Kernel import *
ImportError: CGAL/Kernel.so: undefined symbol: _ZN4CGAL8ROTATIONE

代替make, 用Patrick Farrell写的一个安装程序 http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/cgal-python-users/attachments/20080910/8d96239f/setup.py

Put it in your CGAL-python source directory and type:

python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

and it works.


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#setup.py
from distutils.core import setup
from distutils.extension import Extension
import os
import os.path
import glob

# Author: Patrick Farrell
# patrick.farrell06@imperial.ac.uk

def MakeExtension(directory):
try:
os.stat(os.path.join("bindings", directory, "All_files_at_once.cpp"))
files = [os.path.join("bindings", directory, "All_files_at_once.cpp")]
except OSError:
files = glob.glob(os.path.join("bindings", directory, "*.cpp"))

ext = Extension(
"CGAL/%s" % directory,
files,
include_dirs=["../.."],
libraries=["CGAL", "boost_python", "gmp", "mpfr"],
define_macros=[('CGAL_DONT_USE_LAZY_KERNEL', None)]
)
return ext

directories = [directory for directory in os.listdir("bindings") if os.path.isdir(
os.path.join("bindings", directory))]
extensions = [MakeExtension(directory) for directory in directories]

setup(
name='CGAL-Python',
version='0.9',
description="Python bindings for the Computational Geometry Algorithms Libra
ry",
author = "CGAL team",
url = "http://cgal-python.gforge.inria.fr/",
packages=["CGAL"],
package_dir={"CGAL": "cgal_package/CGAL"},
ext_modules=extensions,
)

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CGAL-Python is a collection of python modules corresponding to CGAL.
Currently CGAL-Python contains the following modules:

• CGAL.Kernel: Point_2 , Point_3 ....

• CGAL.Triangulations_2: Triangulation_2, Delaunay_triangulation_2, Constrained_triangulation_2 ...

• CGAL. Triangulations_3: Triangulation_3, Delaunay_triangulation_3
  

• CGAL.Mesh_2

• CGAL. Geometric_Optimisation: Min_annulus_2, Min_annulus_3, Min_circle_2, Min_ellipse_2 , Min_sphere_2, Min_sphere_3

• CGAL.Alpha_shapes_2(3)

• CGAL.Polyhedron

• CGAL.Convex_hull_2

To use CGAL as Python package you have to import the module you expect to use by typing :
from CGAL import * # this will import the whole CGAL.
from CGAL.Kernel import * # you have to import this module.

Example:
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from CGAL.Kernel import *
from CGAL.Triangulations_2 import *
from random import *
dt = Delaunay_triangulation_2()
vert = {}
for i in range(20):

vert[i] = dt.insert(Point_2(random(),random()))

# the finite vertices:
for v in dt.vertices:

print v.point()

# the finite edges
for e in dt.edges:

print e.vertex()

# the finite faces
for f in dt.faces:

for i in range(3): print f.vertex(i).point()

# compute the finite faces incident to Vertex = vert[0]
finites_faces = []
f1 = cir_faces.next()
if dt.is_infinite(f1) == False:

finites_faces.append(f1)

for f in cir_faces:

if f == f1:break

finites_faces.append(f)

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Other useful packages under Ubuntu:

pyste是boost.python自带的代码生成器，利用pyste可以很方便的为c++ 的 lib加一层python的shell。pyste依赖gccxml. dependent on boost

mapnik 地图渲染引擎，其渲染的地图效果堪和googlemaps媲美. 里面的底层绘制是使用Agg库，Agg是一个高效的2D图形引擎库. python-mapnik, dependent on boost

geomview http://www.geomview.org 画二维图最好用GnuPlot，而画三维图的时候最好用geomview

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