Meshlab on Fedora 31

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Meshlab is the best free pointcloud processor out there. However, there isn't a built in way to process a bunch of pointclouds. Linux to the rescue, but some might have a hard time getting the latest Meshlab working on Linux, note that most of the prebuilt binaries I found were for version 2016 which I don't recommend.

Grab Meshlab source (2020 is latest)

Get Fedora ready. There are a number of prerequisites that need to be installed:

  1. dnf install qt5-qtbase-devel
  2. dnf install qt5-qtscript
  3. dnf install qt5-qtscript-devel
  4. dnf install qt5-qtxmlpatterns-devel
  5. git clone -b devel https://github.com/cnr-isti-vclab/vcglib.git (this goes in ../vcglib directory)
  6. yum install gmp-devel

cd ./src ; qmake

The binary gets made in ../distrib in case you're not finding it!