third-party-libraries.pandoc

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date: "2018-02-26T11:00:13+01:00"
title: "Third-party libraries"
author: "Lars Bilke"
weight: 1049

menu:
  devguide:
    parent: advanced
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::: {.note}
### <i class="fas fa-exclamation-triangle"></i> Attention!

We strongly recommend to simply use [Conan]({{< relref "conan.pandoc" >}}) for handling required third-party libraries.
:::

## Introduction

The following libraries are required:

- [Boost](http://www.boost.org/) >= 1.56.0
- [Eigen](http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/) >= 3.2.9
- [VTK](https://www.vtk.org/) >= 7.1.0

If you want to build the Data Explorer you need these too:

- [Qt](https://www.qt.io/) >= 5.9.2
- [Shapelib](http://shapelib.maptools.org) >= 1.3.0
- [libgeotiff](https://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/) >= 1.4.2

Please refer to the library documentation on how to build. If you struggle consider using [Conan]({{< relref "conan.pandoc" >}})! Once built CMake tries its best to find the libraries.