I wanted to compile a little opengl test programm. At first I had the problem, that he didn t find my opengl headers (glut.h) for example. I made it by making a symlinka. Now he finds the glut.h but the next problem started. when i compile the program by gcc test.c i get this

/var/tmp//ccpE4ENI.o: In function `main':
/var/tmp//ccpE4ENI.o(.text+0x23): undefined reference to `glutInit'
/var/tmp//ccpE4ENI.o(.text+0x30): undefined reference to `glutInitDisplayMode'
/var/tmp//ccpE4ENI.o(.text+0x45): undefined reference to `glutInitWindowSize'
/var/tmp//ccpE4ENI.o(.text+0x54): undefined reference to `glutInitWindowPosition'
/var/tmp//ccpE4ENI.o(.text+0x64): undefined reference to `glutCreateWindow'
/var/tmp//ccpE4ENI.o(.text+0x74): undefined reference to `glutDisplayFunc'
/var/tmp//ccpE4ENI.o(.text+0x7c): undefined reference to `glutMainLoop'

Hmm I searched in internet found to compile it this way
bash-2.05b$ gcc test.c -lglut
heh i got this
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lglut
ok the failure messages shrink. I think the problem are the lib. I find the in /usr/X11R6/lib files like

libGL.so
libGL.so.1
libGLU.a
libGLU.so
libGLU.so.1
libGLcore.so
libGLcore.so.1
libGLw.a

but they are not in /usr/lib
and I think that is the prob. But do not know.
Do not tell me to install libglut. I tried it and got by compiling it:

ld: cannot find -lGL

that is a little bit funny in my oppinion. Please help I would be very glad.

chewy

The source will be with you. Always

Is /usr/X11R6/lib included in your /etc/ld.so.conf file? If not, add it (along with the paths of any other GL-related libraries, if they are located elsewhere), and be sure to run 'ldconfig' as root afterwards.

Whenever I compile openGL stuff, I usually need to use: -lGL -lGLU -lglut