ScenicNew

The scenic.new mix task, which generates a starter application for you. This is the easiest way to set up a new Scenic project.

Installing scenic.new

scenic.new is intended to be used as an installed elixir package. To install the v0.11 beta, run the following command in your terminal.

mix archive.install hex scenic_new 0.11.0

Then you can create the example applications.

mix scenic.new simple
mix scenic.new.example demo

Erlang/Elixir versions

Please note, it currently needs OTP 21 and Elixir 1.7. If you have trouble compiling, please check that you are running those versions first.

Install Prerequisites

The design of Scenic goes to great lengths to minimize its dependencies to just the minimum. Namely, it needs Erlang/Elixir and OpenGL.

Rendering your application into a window on your local computer (MacOS, Ubuntu and others) is done by the scenic_driver_local driver. It uses the GLFW and GLEW libraries to connect to OpenGL.

The instructions below assume you have already installed Elixir/Erlang. If you need to install Elixir/Erlang there are instructions on the elixir-lang website.

Installing on MacOS

The easiest way to install on MacOS is to use Homebrew. Just run the following in a terminal:

brew update
brew install glfw3 glew pkg-config

Once these components have been installed, you should be able to build the scenic_driver_local driver.

Installing on Ubuntu 16

The easiest way to install on Ubuntu is to use apt-get. Just run the following:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pkgconf libglfw3 libglfw3-dev libglew1.13 libglew-dev

Once these components have been installed, you should be able to build the scenic_driver_local driver.

Installing on Ubuntu 18

The easiest way to install on Ubuntu is to use apt-get. Just run the following:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pkgconf libglfw3 libglfw3-dev libglew2.0 libglew-dev

Once these components have been installed, you should be able to build the scenic_driver_local driver.

Installing on Ubuntu 20.04

The easiest way to install on Ubuntu is to use apt-get. Just run the following:

apt-get update
apt-get install pkgconf libglfw3 libglfw3-dev libglew2.2 libglew-dev

Once these components have been installed, you should be able to build the scenic_driver_local driver.

Installing on Arch Linux

glew and glfw-x11 are available in Extra and Community, respectively. Ensure that these are enabled in your pacman.conf, then run:

sudo pacman -S pkgconf glew glfw-x11

Once these components have been installed, you should be able to build the scenic_driver_local driver.

Installing on Fedora

The easiest way to install on Fedora is to use dnf. Just run the following, to install development toolchain, and build/runtime graphics libraries:

sudo dnf install pkgconf glew-devel glfw-devel

Once these components have been installed, you should be able to build the scenic_driver_local driver.

Installing on FreeBSD

The easiest way to install on FreeBSD is to use pkg. Just run the following, to install development toolchain, and build/runtime graphics libraries:

sudo pkg install devel/gmake devel/pkgconf devel/elixir-hex devel/rebar3 \
  graphics/glew graphics/glfw

Once these components have been installed, you should be able to build the scenic_driver_local driver.

Installing on NixOS 18.09

The easiest way to install on NixOS is with a custom shell. Create a file titled shell.nix that includes the following:

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:

with pkgs;

let
  inherit (lib) optional optionals;
  elixir = beam.packages.erlangR21.elixir_1_7;
in

mkShell {
  buildInputs = [
    elixir
    glew glfw
    git
    pkgconfig
    x11
    xorg.libpthreadstubs
    xorg.libXcursor
    xorg.libXdmcp
    xorg.libXfixes
    xorg.libXinerama
    xorg.libXrandr
    xorg.xrandr
  ];
}

Then use nix-shell to build and run the shell as your development environment:

nix-shell shell.nix

Installing on Windows

First, make sure to have installed Visual Studio with its "Desktop development with C++" package.

Next, you need to download the Windows binaries for GLFW and GLEW manually.

Locate your Visual Studio installation directory. Two folders will be required for the next steps:

• The Include folder: {Visual Studio Path}\VC\Tools\MSVC\{version number}\include
• The Lib folder: {Visual Studio Path}\VC\Tools\MSVC\{version number}\lib\amd64 (possibly x64 for some installs?)

Open the GLFW package you downloaded. Extract the contents of the packaged include folder to your Visual Studio Include folder. Next to the include folder, you'll also find several lib-vc20xx folders. Select the closest match to your Visual Studio version and extract the contents to your Lib folder.

Lastly, install the GLEW package. Find the packaged include folder and extract its contents to your Include folder as well. You should now have two new folders in your Include folder: GL and GLFW. Now navigate to lib\Release\x64 in the GLEW package. Copy all *.lib files to your Lib folder. Finally, navigate to bin\Release\amd64 and copy glew32.dll to your Windows\system32 folder.

Install scenic.new

mix archive.install hex scenic_new

To build and run scenic applications, you will also need to install a few dependencies. See the Getting started for more information.

Build and install locally

To build and install this archive locally ensure any previous archive versions are removed:

mix archive.uninstall scenic_new

Then run:

cd scenic_new
MIX_ENV=prod mix do archive.build, archive.install

Build the Basic Application

First, navigate the command-line to the directory where you want to create your new Scenic application. Then run the following commands: (change my_app to the name of your application)

mix scenic.new my_app
cd my_app
mix do deps.get, scenic.run

This will create a bare-bones application

Build the Example Application

First, navigate the command-line to the directory where you want to create your new Scenic application. Then run the following commands: (change my_app to the name of your application)

mix scenic.new.example my_app
cd my_app
mix do deps.get, scenic.run

Build a Basic Nerves Application

To add Scenic to a Nerves project, you should first set up Nerves and create a new Nerves project using the nerves generator.

See the Nerves Getting Started documentation.

After creating a new Nerves app, run the following command from within the app's directory.

mix scenic.setup

Then follow the next-step instructions that get printed out in the terminal window.

The Example Application

The starter application created by the generator above shows the basics of building a Scenic application. It has four scenes, two components, and a simulated sensor.

The simulated temperature sensor doesn't collect any actual data, but does show how you would set up a real sensor and publish data from it into the Scenic.SensorPubSub service.

What to read next

Next, you should read the guides describing the overall Scenic structure. This is in the documentation for Scenic itself.