Ogre

From http://www.ogre3d.org/about:

What Is OGRE? OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) is a scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine written in C++ designed to make it easier and more intuitive for developers to produce applications utilising hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. The class library abstracts all the details of using the underlying system libraries like Direct3D and OpenGL and provides an interface based on world objects and other intuitive classes.

Issues

Ubuntu 9.04

Sample Tutorials

Sample Code

Sample code is not included in the development headers. This means that you won't be able to compile any code that included the base classes from ExampleFrameListener.h, or ExampleApplication.h

To work around this, you must check out the code from SVN, or snag a source tarball to get to the files needed for the tutorials.

Dependencies

The first few tutorials require libois-dev. You may install this here Ogre also requires zziplib. You may install binaries here, and headers here.

resources.cfg

resources.cfg will also be missing when you compile in a new directory tree. This can be worked around.

Following is my resources.cfg

# Resource locations to be added to the 'boostrap' path
# This also contains the minimum you need to use the Ogre example framework
[Bootstrap]
Zip=./Media/packs/OgreCore.zip

# Resource locations to be added to the default path
[General]
FileSystem=./Media
FileSystem=./Media/fonts
FileSystem=./Media/materials/programs
FileSystem=./Media/materials/scripts
FileSystem=./Media/materials/textures
FileSystem=./Media/models
FileSystem=./Media/overlays
FileSystem=./Media/particle
FileSystem=./Media/gui
FileSystem=./Media/DeferredShadingMedia
Zip=./Media/packs/cubemap.zip
Zip=./Media/packs/cubemapsJS.zip
Zip=./Media/packs/dragon.zip
Zip=./Media/packs/fresneldemo.zip
Zip=./Media/packs/ogretestmap.zip
Zip=./Media/packs/skybox.zip

This also provides there is a folder  Media  in the current directory. You will need this from the example folder.

Empty Menu, and exit on click

You are most likely missing  plugins.cfg , and would do well to copy it to the local directory.

Error on path to /usr/local/lib

/usr/local/lib, in this case should be changed to /usr/lib

Error with Plugin_CgProgramManager.so ( UNRESOLVED )

Using Ogre Source Install

This tutorial should solve any issues you run into with Linked Libraries and Setting up CodeBlocks IDE for OGRE on Ubuntu 9.04 and above:

http://www.cipherhive.org/ubuntu-904-ogre-source-install