Supported Platforms

HOOPS Publish is available on the following platforms:

Platform	Architecture	Minimum Supported OS	Compiler
Windows	x64	Windows 10	MSVC v142
Linux	x64	CentOS 7 / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (glibc 2.17)	devtoolset 8 / GCC 8.2.3

Microsoft Visual Studio Runtime Requirements

Starting from HOOPS 2023, HOOPS Publish migrated its compiler to Visual Studio 2019 (previously 2015). Following Microsoft’s Documentation on binary compatibility, this change implies an update to the required MSVC redistributables.

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

Format Support and Platform

CAD format support may be restricted in some platforms. Please refer to Supported File Formats for more information.

Using Other Operating Systems and Compilers

It is simplest and best if your application is compiled using one of the supported operating systems and compilers listed above. Other operating systems may work, but our testing is limited to the list above.

It is possible to use a version of Visual Studio for your application development other than the supported versions, although it is not recommended or supported. We have spot checked that this is possible during the testing of our release. Please remember that any issues will need to be reproduced using a supported operating system and compiler before being submitted to Technical Support.

Package Hierarchy

Here is a quick description of the package, once extracted:

Folder	Description
bin	HOOPS Publish and 3rd party binaries
documentation	A link to this documentation
include	C include files
samples	A list of example programs made with HOOPS Publish
tools	Misc helper tools for facilitating client code upgrades

Binaries

Binary files are location in a sub-folder of bin/ directory. The name of the sub-folder is set according to the runtime environment:

Platform	Folder	Main Binary File
Windows	win64_v142	A3DLIBS.dll
GNU/Linux	linux64	libA3DLIBS.so

If you are already familiar with the Supported Formats page, you are now ready to discover how to evaluate HOOPS Publish; to do that, simply press the Next button.