The SDK supports iOS, Android and Linux PowerVR devices. It also supports Windows, OS X and Linux PC emulation. Imagination's OpenGL ES emulation library, PVRVFrame, can be downloaded from our website here.
The PowerVR Graphics SDK provides a framework which is made up of PVRShell and PVRTools. PVRShell is a simple, light-weight architecture for the barebones of application setup, shutdown and event handling. It is designed to streamline the process of writing cross-platform graphics applications. PVRTools, on the other hand, is a cross-platform tools library containing the most commonly used functionality in a 3D graphics application.
The examples provided in the SDK are fully commented, highly optimized C++ applications that cover a variety of rendering techniques. They are designed in a step-by-step tutorial style to gradually guide the most inexperienced graphics developers from a simple render of a single triangle to complex scenes that incorporate many objects, animations and shader effects.
The Getting Started guide of our SDK Browser provides step-by-step instructions to build and deploy the SDK example applications for the various support operating systems. You can find the SDK Browser here.
Examples can be built on a Rasberry Pi running Linux by cd'ing into an Example's Build/LinuxGeneric directory and running the following command:
make PIBUILD=1 PLATFORM=armv6e.g.
cd Native_SDK/Examples/Beginner/07_IntroducingPOD/OGLES2/Build/LinuxGeneric
make PIBUILD=1 PLATFORM=armv6This has been tested on a vanilla Raspbian distro.
Our documentation (architecture guides, performance recommendations & white papers) can be found on the Imagination website here.
If you have any questions about the SDK, PowerVR device optimization/debugging or our tools, please contact us through our public forum. We also recommend checking out our FAQ to see if your question has already been answered. If you would prefer to contact us confidentially, you can file a support ticket here.
All Rasberry Pi specific changes are based on the anonymousjustice/pvr-pi code repository.
The SDK is distributed under a permissive license so it can easily be integrated into commercial and non-commercial applications. You can find the license here. To further clarify the terms, we also have an SDK license FAQ (available here).