External Software

Katana has many dependencies on third-party libraries. Wherever possible, these dependencies are kept internal to the Katana application and do not “leak out” into plug-in code, and as such you should be able to link against your own version of those libraries in your plug-ins. We achieve this using a mix of static linking, restricted symbol visibility (on Linux), and using Foundry-specific namespaces and library names for some libraries.

In some cases, however, this was not possible. For example, you should not attempt to link your plug-in against versions of Python, Qt or PyQt other than the version used by Katana.

If you do experience compatibility problems, please do report them to our support team, as we’re always looking for ways to improve the product.

Note

Switching out libraries Katana depends on with your own is something that should be done with care, as it makes your Katana installation harder for us to support. Wherever possible, you should consider static linking, namespacing or other methods of symbol versioning so that Katana and your plug-in can run different versions of the libraries they depend on.

VFX Reference Platform + USD

The following table lists the tools and libraries used by Katana that are part of the VFX Reference Platform Calendar Year 2020 specification, as well as the version of USD being used. Libraries indicated by ✳ cannot easily co-exist with other versions of that library. Generally this is because they are bundled with Katana as a shared library (without a Foundry-specific symbol namespace or library name) or have a Python component.

CY2020 Reference Platform

Version in Katana 4.5

5.0

Linux

GCC

6.3.1

6.3.1

glibc

2.17

2.17

Windows

Platform Toolset

Visual Studio 17

Windows SDK

v10

Common Components

Python ✳

3.7.x

2.7.18 ❗

3.7.7

Qt ✳

5.12.x

5.12.11 (modified)

PyQt ✳

5.12

5.12.1

5.12.3

OpenEXR

2.4.x

2.4.2 (modified)

Ptex

2.3.2

2.3.2

OpenSubdiv

3.4.x

3.4.3

Alembic

1.7.x

1.7.10

OpenColorIO

1.1.x

1.1.1

Boost

1.70

1.70.0

Intel TBB

2019 Update 6

2019 Update 6

Outside of VFX RP

USD

n/a

21.05

Library Versions

The following table lists tools and libraries libraries included in or used by Katana, and their current versions. Libraries indicated by ✳ cannot easily co-exist with other versions of that library. Generally this is because they are bundled with Katana as a shared library (without a Foundry-specific symbol namespace or library name) or have a Python component.

Name

Version

Notes

Abseil

20200923.2

Alembic

1.7.10

Base32

Boost

1.70.0

Breakpad

bsd-xdr

1.0.0

Windows-only.

Cg ✳

3.0.0016

cppzmq

4.7.1

curl ✳

7.72.0

Dear ImGui

1.64

decorator ✳

4.4.2

Python library.

DSOnoises

enum ✳

0.4.4

Python library.

enum34 ✳

1.1.10

Python library.

Expat

2.2.0

fmt

4.1.0

fpconst

0.7.2

Python library.

FreeType

2.10.4

FTGL

2.1.3

GCC

6.3.1

Linux-only.

GLEW ✳

1.13.0

Graphviz

2.28.0

Linux-only.

HDF

5.1.8.7

Intel TBB

2019 Update 6

jemalloc

5.2.1

JPEG

6b

libc++

6.0

libpng

1.6.9

libtiff

3.9.4

log4cplus

1.0.4

Lua

5.1.5

LuaJIT

2.1.0b3

Minizip

1.1

OpenColorIO

1.1.1

OpenEXR

2.4.2

OpenImageIO

1.5.20

OpenSSL ✳

1.0.2u

OpenSubdiv

3.4.3

Ptex

2.3.2

pybind11

2.5.0

PyGraphviz ✳

1.1

Python library. Linux-only.

PyOpenGL ✳

3.1.5

Python library.

pyparsing ✳

2.4.7

Python library.

PyQt ✳

5.12.3

Python library. Katana uses the v2 API.

Python ✳

3.7.7

PyZMQ ✳

19.0.2

Python library.

Qt ✳

5.12.11

qt-json

20121115

RapidJSON

1.1.0

SIP ✳

4.19.24

Python library.

Skein

1.1

TinyXML

2.6.0

USD

21.05

Modified.

Visual Studio

2017 (v15.9.17)

Windows-only.

VXL

1.18.0

ZeroMQ

4.3.3

zlib

1.2.11