SciDAVis uses the Qt toolkit. Version 4.2 or above is needed. It provides the necessary dynamic libraries to run the SciDAVis binaries and important tools to compile it.

You need to install the Qwt library version 5.x. It is recommended to use the 5.2.3 version. Qwt must be compiled with Qt 4.x.

You also need the muParser library 1.28 or later.

The 3D plots in SciDAVis make use of qwtplot3d library. Version 0.2.6 or 0.2.7 is required.

Furthermore, the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) (1.8 or later) must be installed on your system.

Additionally, zlib >=1.2.3 is required. Since this is also a requirement of Qt, installing Qt should fullfill this requirement on most systems.

If you want to use Python expressions and scripts, make sure you have the following additional dependencies installed: Python >=2.5, SIP >=4.5.2, PyQt >=4.2. Other versions as those indicated above may or may not work.