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RobbyKraft
New Participant
February 6, 2014

native Oculus OSX Xcode build

I have spent a few weekends organizing my notes, here should be everything you need to build a skeleton Oculus Rift project in Xcode-

Start with a blank Cocoa app

Drag LibOVR into Xcode Project, uncheck all “Add to Target”



Linked Frameworks and Libraries:
  • libovr.a (LibOVR/Lib/MacOS/Debug)

  • IOKit.framework




Architectures
  • Architectures : 64-bit Intel (x86_64)




Apple LLVM 5.0 - Language - C++
  • C++ Standard Library : libstdc++ (GNU C++ standard library)

  • Enable C++ Exceptions : No

  • Enable C++ Runtime Types : No





Search Paths
  • Header Search Paths : LibOVR/Src, LibOVR/Include

  • Library Search Paths :

  • - Debug : LibOVR/Lib/MacOS/Debug

  • - Release : LibOVR/Lib/MacOS/Release


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Any classes which include OVR.h, and the classes which include THOSE classes, must be named *.mm, or must be marked as Objective-C++ source



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for reference: here is this example’s folder location for how they reference the header/search paths


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to check if everything got setup correctly, edit main.mm:


#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
#include "OVR.h”

using namespace OVR;

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    System::Init();
    return NSApplicationMain(argc, argv);
}


if it builds, everything should be working!

project source: https://github.com/robbykraft/SimpleOculus includes an OpenGL scene to test in the headset.

I'm running Xcode 5.0 and I'm able to build as far back as 10.6. Hope this works for everyone else too!

    2 replies

    r03ert0
    New Participant
    April 21, 2014
    hello,
    thank you for SimpleOculus! it was just what i needed to start going with OVR and cocoa.

    One question. I tried to add a cube to the panorama, but the interpupillary distance was awkward... what is the appropriate way of adding objects? This is what I added to Scene.mm, to try to display a cube:


    void Scene::render() {
        drawPanorama();

        int     i,j;
        GLfloat o[3]={0,0,-5};
        GLfloat P[]={   0,0,0,  1,0,0,  1,1,0,  0,1,0,
                        0,0,1,  1,0,1,  1,1,1,  0,1,1};
        GLfloat C[]={   0,0,0,  1,0,0,  1,1,0,  0,1,0,
                        0,0,1,  1,0,1,  1,1,1,  0,1,1};
        GLint   T[]={   0,1,2, 0,2,3,
                        1,5,6, 1,6,2,
                        5,4,7, 5,7,6,
                        4,0,3, 4,3,7,
                        3,2,6, 3,6,7,
                        0,4,1, 1,4,5};
        for(i=0;i<8*3;i++)
            P[i]=(P[i]-0.5)*1;

        glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);
        for(i=0;i<12;i++)
            for(j=0;j<3;j++) {
                glColor4f(C[T[3*i+j]*3+0],C[T[3*i+j]*3+1],C[T[3*i+j]*3+2],1);
                glVertex3f(o[0]+P[T[3*i+j]*3+0],o[1]+P[T[3*i+j]*3+1],o[2]+P[T[3*i+j]*3+2]);
            }
        glEnd();
    }


    Also... the cube renders all squished...

    thank you in advance for your help!
    roberto
    melterry
    New Participant
    May 1, 2014
    I get this error...

    OVR_SensorImpl.d
    DTrace error
    expected predicate and/or actions following probe description


    thoughts?
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