Distributing Your Application

Windows Redistributables

HOOPS Exchange being an explicitely shared library, the impact occurs at runtime. Any application running HOOPS Exchange must have at least Visual Studio 2019 redistributable.

Binaries

HOOPS Exchange and HOOPS Publish share the same binaries folder. Not all binaries are used by both products; therefore, developers who want to minimize the size of their application should only include those items with the functionality they are using.

The following table lists the binaries in the _bin_ folder that are required for distributing a HOOPS Publish application. All items listed as “Core logic” must be included with your product - all others are optional. If you are a HOOPS Publish developer who also uses HOOPS Exchange, you must also include the relevant binaries from the HOOPS Exchange distribution list.

Windows

Component	Library file	Associated 3rd-Party Software
Core logic	A3DLIBS.dll	Assimp 5.2.5 Boost 1.76 FreeType 2.10.4 LZMA 19.00 Nlohmann’s JSON 3.9.1 OpenNURBS SDK 7.0.5 STB Image 2.23 STB Image Write 1.13 TinyGLTF 2.5.0 TinyXML 2.6.2 TwoFish ZLib 1.2.12
	TFKGEOM.dll
	TFUGEOM.dll	Boost 1.76 FreeType 2.10.4 STB Image 2.23 STB Image Write 1.13 TinyXML 2.6.2 ZLib 1.2.12
	TfFontMgr.dll	FreeType 2.10.4 Boost 1.76 TinyXML 2.6.2
	DL180ACE.dll	Adobe PDFL SDK 18.0.4PlusP1
	DL180AGM.dll
	DL180ARE.dll
	DL180AXE9SharedExpat.dll
	DL180AdobeXMP.dll
	DL180BIB.dll
	DL180BIBUtils.dll
	DL180CoolType.dll
	DL180JP2K.dll
	DL180Libpdfl.dll
	TfKernel.dll
	icudt67.dll
	icuuc67.dll
FBX reader	aistep30.dll
3MF writer	w3mf.dll	Lib3MF 2.0.0
IGES writer	wiges.dll
JT writer	wjt.dll
STEP writer	wstp.dll
STL writer	wstl.dll
U3D writer	wu3d.dll
VRML writer	wwrl.dll
Extract PDF data for HTML export	PDFParser.dll	PDFium chromium/5418 abseil lodepng
HTML and SCS export (64-bit only)	libprc2sc.dll	HOOPS Communicator
Poster generation	D3DCompiler_47.dll
	a3dpostergeneration.dll	libjpeg 9e
TableToPDF	QtCore4.dll	Qt 4.8.2
	QtGui4.dll
	QtNetwork4.dll
	QtWebKit4.dll
	tabletopdf.dll

Linux

Component	Library file	Associated 3rd-Party Software
Core logic	libA3DLIBS-<version>.so* libA3DLIBS.so	Assimp 5.2.5 Boost 1.76 FreeType 2.10.4 LZMA 19.00 Nlohmann’s JSON 3.9.1 OpenNURBS SDK 7.0.5 PDFium chromium/5418 STB Image 2.23 STB Image Write 1.13 TinyGLTF 2.5.0 TinyXML 2.6.2 TwoFish ZLib 1.2.12
	libDL180ACE.so.18.0.0	Adobe PDFL SDK 18.0.4PlusP1
	libDL180AGM.so.18.0.0
	libDL180ARE.so.18.0.0
	libDL180AXE8SharedExpat.so.18.0.0
	libDL180AdobeXML.so.18.0.0
	libDL180BIB.so.18.0.0
	libDL180BIBUtils.so.18.0.0
	libDL180CoolType.so.18.0.0
	libDL180JP2K.so.18.0.0
	libDL180pdfl.so.18.0.0
	libicudata.so.67
	libicuuc.so.67
Extract PDF data for HTML export (Windows only)	libpdfparser.so	PDFium chromium/5418 abseil lodepng
HTML and SCS export (64-bit only)	libprc2sc.so	HOOPS Communicator
Poster generation	liba3dpostergeneration.so
TableToPDF	libQtCore.so	Qt 4.8.2
	libQtCore.so.4
	libQtCore.so.4.8
	libQtCore.so.4.8.2
	libQtGui.so
	libQtGui.so.4
	libQtGui.so.4.8
	libQtGui.so.4.8.2
	libQtNetwork.so
	libQtNetwork.so.4
	libQtNetwork.so.4.8
	libQtNetwork.so.4.8.2
	libQtWebKit.so
	libQtWebKit.so.4
	libQtWebKit.so.4.9
	libQtWebKit.so.4.9
	libQtWebKit.so.4.9.2
	libtabletopdf.so

Note

Linux NODWG package

If you are using Linux, the following 3rd-party licences are part of the Core binary:

• CS-Map 14.20/15.10

• Curl 7.75.0

• FreeImage 3.18.0

• FreeType 2.10.4

• LibXl 3.8.2

• Oless 3.12

• OpenCollada 1.6.68

• OpenSSL 1.1.1l

• PDFium chromium/5418

• QPDF 8.4.0

• TBB 4.0

• TinyXML 2.6.2

• UTF (BSD-style)

• Wchar 1.30.4.1

• ZMQ 4.3.1

• libXML 2.9.7

• zlib 1.2.11

If you use the Linux NODWG package, the depedency to ODA is removed and the above depdencies are not part of libA3DLIBS.so.

Please note, HTML and SCS export are only available on 64-bit platforms.

Developers who are using a CAD import with HOOPS Publish may need to add additional DLLs in their binaries directory for integration purposes. See Distributing Your Application in the Exchange documentation for more information.

Linux developers: The bulk of HOOPS Publish is delivered as a single .so file, libA3DLIBS-<version>.so. A symbolic link named libA3DLIBS.so pointing to libA3DLIBS-<version>.so will also be included in the bin directory.

Resources

The resource directory is to be used by HOOPS Publish. It is advised to always include this directory in a HOOPS Publish distribution, to avoid unpredictable behavior on specific customer platforms. Only restricted minimal usage of HOOPS Publish that produces PDF files without any texts could be supported without the resource directory and its subfolders.

Also, resourceFont contains the Adobe MyriadCAD OpenType font which is provided with HOOPS Exchange and HOOPS Publish to ensure standard GD&T symbols are available. This font must be installed to ensure accurate display of PMI data. The MyriadCAD font may only be redistributed with HOOPS Exchange and HOOPS Publish enabled applications.

TableToPDF

TableToPDF is a free add-on for HOOPS Publish that enables the creation of HTML-based tables in PDF documents.

Certain functions in Publish require the TableToPDF add-on, including: A3DPDFTableCreate(), A3DPDFDefineSlideTable(), A3DPDFDefineSlideTable2().

TableToPDF uses third-party libraries that require LGPL conformance for distribution. TableToPDF can be downloaded at http://developer.techsoft3d.com/add-ons/tabletopdf/. TableToPDF binaries have to be redistributed in the same folder as HOOPS Publish binaries.