Getting Started

How to setup your system to use Wire3D.

You can build Wire3D for the following target platforms:

Wii

• Install the Homebrew Channel on your Wii
• Install DevkitPPC on your Windows, Mac OSX or Linux machine
• Get the latest release or current version via git.
• Provided Wii project files for Windows:
  • Visual Studio 2005 (2008), 2010, 2012, 2013: Wire3D_Wii.sln in its respective builds directory
• Compilation of Wire3D and its Samples:
  • Windows: use Visual Studio or make.
  • Mac OSX: use make.
  • Linux: use make.

Note: Use make WIRE_DEBUG="y" for debug builds.

Note: If you run a program from Visual Studio, it will use Wiiload (that comes with your DevkitPPC installation) to transfer the program to the Wii via network. Wiiload requires the environment variable WIILOAD to be set to tcp:yourIP, where yourIP is the IP address of your Wii console.

Windows

• Install DirectX SDK
  • In Visual Studio 2005/2008 add DirectX SDK include and library directories to Visual Studio global directories (Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories)
• Get the latest release or current version via git.
• Open Wire3D.sln from builds directory that corresponds with your version of Visual Studio. Supported versions: 2005 (2008), 2010, 2012 or 2013
• Compile and run any of the samples in the solution

Note: If you are using Visual Studio 2008, open the VS2005 solution and let Visual Studio convert the solution and project files for you. After that, it compiles without any warnings.

Note: If you are using Visual Studio Express versions before 2012, you will get a warning that solution folders are not supported. While the folders appear to be unloaded, they have just been moved to the root solution space, and compilation succeeds without further warnings.