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- An installed version of the OpenSim libraries: these are either built from source then installed or downloaded and included with some distribution of OpenSim (that is consistent with the source you're using) If building from source, make sure you choose to BUILD_JAVA_WRAPPING
- Download NetBeans IDE with JDK Bundle, e.g., at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-netbeans-jsp-142931.html.
OpenSim is built on top of the Netbeans platform which is included with the NetBeans IDE. Ensure you install a distribution of NetBeans (version 7.0.1 or later) that is bundled with a compatible Java JDK (so you do not have to separately install a possibly incompatible NetBeans and Java JDK). Ensure you download the 32-bit JDK version if you're using 32 bit libraries (or 64-bit if using 64-bit tools/installers). - If you anticipate that you may need to make changes to the OpenSim API, download and install SWIG (version 2.0.9 is recommended) from http://www.swig.org
- Visualization libraries: For now these are VTK libraries and they are included in the bin directory of OpenSim distributions and a Windows version is available in the OpenSim repository for both 32 and 64 bit. The version of VTK in use is 5.0.6.
- Access to the OpenSim repository. See Contributing to the OpenSim Source Code
How to Build the OpenSim GUI
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