The external glue layer is a separate small project called pcb-rnd-3dview. It has stable releases or it can be checked out from svn using the command
svn checkout svn://svn.repo.hu/pcb-rnd-3dview/trunk pcb-rnd-3dview/trunk

Once you have pcb-rnd-3dview source, please read its README and INSTALL.

The result should look like this: