The results of the first OpenSceneGraph poll are in! The poll question was "How do you get your OpenSceneGraph binaries?". A total of 178 votes were cast by 154 unique voters (judging from IP addresses).

Almost two-thirds of the votes were cast for the Windows options, 61%, versus 39% for the Linux ones. The majority of voters casting two or more votes indicated they compiled from source.

Here are the results grouped by platform:

Windows:

I compile OSG from source, but use precompiled dependencies	33.7%	60
I use Mike Weiblen's precompiled binaries for both OSG and its dependencies	18.0%	32
I compile OSG and its dependencies from source (choose to)	7.9%	14
I compile OSG and its dependencies from source (no precompiled package for my compiler)	0.6%	1
Other	1.1%	2

Linux:

I compile OSG from source myself	29.2%	52
I use packages provided by my distribution	5.1%	9
Other	3.9%	7
Where is the precompiled package for Linux?	0.6%	1

A selection of remarks provided with the votes:

• "We compiled our deps to avoid version mismatch issues and to have full control over the process."
• "For VS2005 I've made a tutorial to compile OSG from source using precompiled dependencies (french): http://ange3d.developpez.com/tutoriels/osg/"
• "I use the pre-built packages when possible, but also build them myself. It is easier to distribute my code and to tell other users to use the pre-built installer than to have them build OSG themselves."
• "I would use Gentoo's system, but it is stuck at 1.2"
• "Thanks so much for OSG!"
• "I compile OSG from source to use debug builds and have debug information. Still need to step into osg code to understand..."
• "Windows: compile OSG from source, use precompiled dependencies, Linux: compile OSG from source, use dependencies from distro's package manager."
• "I compile & link the dependencies statically into my osg application."
• "I wouldnt if the precompiled ones would work for me"
• "well i had lots of trouble with the precompiled binaries... so i decided to compile everything by myself"
• "It's possible to compile on VxWorks?"
• Multiple voters were curious where the MacOS vote option was. As far as I (Paul Melis) could tell, there weren't any provided through the OpenSceneGraph website ("OSX Pending"), and I also couldn't find any using Google. So if there is a standard OSG binary distribution for the Mac then the OSG download page should clearly be updated...