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Introduction

dcapp (pronounced “dee see app”) is a displays and controls software package designed for UNIX platforms, specifically MacOS and Linux.

It is built upon standard UNIX technologies like OpenGL for graphics, libxml2 for input file parsing, and FreeType2 for font handling. For window management and event handling, it uses Cocoa on MacOS machines and X11 for Linux-based machines. It has built-in communication libraries to communicate with external Trick-based simulations (via trick_comm) and EDGE graphics (via EDGE’s remote commanding server (RCS)).

Prerequisites

• OpenGL
• libxml2
• FreeType2

Note that these packages are standard on most MacOS and Linux installations.