Question: Do I need additional files from the OpenDWG Alliance?
Answer: That depends. If you plan to compile the program from the source files then the answer is yes. You will need the files ad2.a and ad3.a for Linux which are available from the OpenDWG alliance. It will be necessary for you to become a member of the alliance, but membership is free so long as you are using the files for personal use or for use inside your own company. After you download these files copy or move ad2.a and ad3.a into the subdirectory OpenDWG which should be created when you expand the LX-Viewer tar.gz archive.
When you download the libraries from OpenDWG there will be lots of header files plus examples included. Do not use any of the header files with LX-Viewer. We supply our own versions, many of which have the same names as the OpenDWG header files, but with different content.
If you are using a precompiled version of LX-Viewer then no additional files are necessary since the two files above are static linked into the program.
Question: What is the OpenDWG Alliance?
Answer: The OpenDWG Alliance is an organization whose purpose is to make the DWG file format available to all. More information about this group can be found at: http://www.opendwg.org
Question: What version of QT do I need?
Answer: Up to LX-Viewer version 0.96 you needed QT 2.3. Versions subsequent to 0.96 require QT 3.0.5. If you compile the sources your self you will need the QT development RPM's. If you only need to run the precompiled version than it is sufficient to just have the QT runtime libraries installed on your computer.
Question: Any chance of a version for Windows?
Answer: Yes we're working on it this very moment, maybe by December?
Question: I'm compiling and I get a "Qt not found" error
Answer: Do you have the QT libarires installed? On a Linux RPM based distribution you can type the following to find out:
rpm -qa | grep -i qt
Question: I'm using the experimental version and I'm getting an error
Answer:Check the forums to see if someone's asked the same question, if not we want to hear from you and we'll fix the problem.