Where to Download From

The most recent and previous releases can be downloaded from https://account.opendesign.com/downloads or https://www.opendesign.com/odoutgoing/Releases/.

Only registered Open Design Alliance members can access the download pages. For more information regarding Open Design Alliance Membership, please see http://www.opendesign.com/join.

ODA Platform Naming Conventions

The following is a list of naming conventions used for ODA Platform downloadable archives (.zip and .tar.gz), by platform. In general, unless "dll" appears in the archive name, the archive contains static libraries.

Windows

Windows 32-bit and 64-bit

• vc<N> — Microsoft Visual Studio version, where <N> means:
  • 8 — Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
  • 9 — Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
  • 10 — Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
  • 11 — Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
  • 11xp — Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 with WinXP support
  • 12 — Microsoft Visual Studio 2013
  • 12xp — Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 with WinXP support
  • 14 — Microsoft Visual Studio 2015
  • 14xp — Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 with WinXP support
  • 15 — Microsoft Visual Studio 2017
  • 16 — Microsoft Visual Studio 2019
• amd64 — Libraries built for the x86 AMD64 platform
• dll — Indicates dynamic link library version
• md, mt — /MD, /MT, etc. Visual Studio compiler options (static library)
• dbg — Indicates the presence of debug information (/MTd, /MDd, etc.)
• rwd — Release build containing debug information (useful for reproducing certain types of runtime problems)

Choose a downloadable archive for Windows platforms

All ODA Software executables are built with dependency on the C/C++ runtime library (CRT), which implements basic functionality, such as input/output operations, memory management, string manipulation, and so on.

There are two ways of linking the CRT library:

• Static linking
• Dynamic linking

And there are two types of CRT libraries:

• Static multi-threaded
• Dynamic link multi-threaded

Each type can be represented with a Release or Debug configuration.

To get a successfully built custom application developed with Mechanical SDK, the CRT library used by the application must match the CRT library used by Mechanical SDK libraries. In other words, custom applications should use the same compiler switch that was used to build ODA libraries. Compiler switches used for different library configurations are illustrated in the table below.

ODA library downloads support each of these reusable CRT library types:

• Downloadable archives with Static CRT contain the mt suffix in their names. For example, Mechanical_vc15_amd64mt_22.2.zip contains the Mechanical release 22.2 archive with Static CRT, built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 for the x86 AMD64 platform.
  This configuration requires that you use an /MT switch to build a custom application.
• Downloadable archives with Dynamic Link Multi-Threaded CRT contain the dll suffix in their names. For example, Mechanical_vc15_amd64dll_22.2.zip contains the Mechanical release 22.2 archive with the Dynamic Link Multi-Threaded CRT, built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 for the x86 AMD64 platform.
  This configuration requires that you use an /MD switch to build a custom application.
• Downloadable archives with Static/Dynamic CRT contain the md suffix in their names. For example, Mechanical_vc15_amd64md_22.2.zip contains the Mechanical release 22.2 archive with both Static Multi-Threaded and Dynamic Link Multi-Threaded CRT, built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 for the x86 AMD64 platform.
  This configuration also requires that you use an /MD switch to build a custom application, but it allows you to mix the static and DLL (dynamic) reusable CRT library types.

Note: Release suffixes are not added to archives created before the 21.3 release. Also, trial archives and archives with demonstration samples have no release suffixes.

To use compiler switches when building a custom application or DLL:

• The /MD switch causes a custom application or DLL to use the Multi-Threaded and DLL versions of the CRT library. It defines _MT and _DLL macros within an application and causes the compiler to place the library name MSVCRT.lib into the OBJ file.
  Custom applications and DLLs compiled with this option are statically linked to MSVCRT.lib, containing code that allows them to resolve external references.
  Actual working code is contained in MSVCR90.DLL. This file must be available at run time.
• The /MT switch causes a custom application or DLL to use the Static Multi-Threaded version of the CRT library. It defines the _MT macro within an application and causes the compiler to place the library name LIBCMT.lib into the OBJ file. In this case, the linker uses LIBCMT.lib to resolve external symbols.

Note: The question of choosing a Mechanical downloadable archive is the same as choosing a CRT library linking method: dynamic or static. The chosen method determines whether a custom application or DLL will have any external DLL dependencies.

Linux

• lnx — Linux
• X86, X64 — Indicates the X86 or X64 platform
• 4.9, 5.2, 5.3, 6.3, etc. — GCC versions
• dll — Indicates a shared library version
• pic — Compiled with Position Independent Code option

macOS

• macOsX — macOS
• arm64, x64 — Libraries built for ARM64 and X64 respectively
• 10.15, 11.0, etc. — Version number of macOS that the libraries are built for
• dll — Indicates a shared library version
• pic — Compiled with the Position Independent Code option

iOS

• iOS — iOS
• 14.0 etc. — iOS SDK version (Note: This is not an iOS version!)
• sim — Simulator build (real device otherwise)
• dbg — Indicates the presence of debug information

See Also

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