hey guys.

im running fedora core 2 (which uses Xorg, not XFree86)
with a nvidia GeForce 4.

the graphics card is installed and working fine.

ive had no ttrouble compiling glut opengl programs with Redhat9 or fedora core 1.
butt the difference in X display managers seems to have thrown me.

anyways....
i have the X developemnt tools installed

from there i need to install Glut and Glut-devel.

installation of Glut fails due to missing dependency OpenGL.
however i know from past experiance this is just a bug, my OpenGL
was installed my nvidia installer, not by rpm, and so its safe to force with ---nodeps.

at this stage, pre-compiled GLUT binary's run just fine.

now i need glut-devel in order to compile glut.
it fails with dependency missing "openGL-devel"

in the past, i used XFree86-OpenGL-devel to solve this dependency, however
in FC2 it does not seem to work. and i cannot find a Xorg-OpenGL-devel package anywhere.

ive also tried to solve the dependency with Glut-devel. but that does not work either,
any ideas anyone ?

and the answer is......

Fedora Core 2 uses freeGlut. Not GLUT you idiot !!!
rpm -Uvh `find /mnt | grep glut`
installed freeglut and freeglut-devel just fine.

damn.... although freegllut and freeglut-devel are installed....
i still get compile errors like

[chris@cpc1-mapp1-6-0-cust35 gluttest]$ g++ teapot.cpp
./ccvue0Dz.o(.text+0x1b): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `glutInit'
./ccvue0Dz.o(.text+0x28): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `glutInitDisplayMode'
./ccvue0Dz.o(.text+0x3d): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `glutInitWindowSize'
./ccvue0Dz.o(.text+0x4c): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `glutInitWindowPosition'
./ccvue0Dz.o(.text+0x5c): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `glutCreateWindow'
./ccvue0Dz.o(.text+0x71): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `glutDisplayFunc'
./ccvue0Dz.o(.text+0x81): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `glutKeyboardFunc'
./ccvue0Dz.o(.text+0xa1): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `glClearColor'
./ccvue0Dz.o(.text+0xa9): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `glutMainLoop'
./ccvue0Dz.o(.text+0xc3): In function `disp()':
: undefined reference to `glClear'
./ccvue0Dz.o(.text+0xda): In function `disp()':
: undefined reference to `glutWireTeapot'
./ccvue0Dz.o(.text+0x1b2): In function `keyb(unsigned char, int, int)':
: undefined reference to `glutDestroyWindow'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

has any1 else managed to compile a glut program with fedora core 2 ?

GLUT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know how many times I will have to tell people this, but GLUT SUCKS!!!

Yes I do have a passion on this subject, a passionate hatered for glut!!! It sucks almost as bad as Windows!!! (Now thats passion! )

Start fixing ALL your problems by visiting the following link.

www.libsdl.org

If you don't like this option, then don't expect any help from me, as we all know that glut is just a waste of our time.

SDL ROCKS!!!!!!!!

Bye.

Im using glut cos i need a simple interface to test my physics engine.
im not after performance.

and the Teapot function is priceless

anways.....
for any1 else with the same problem...
you can either use sdl (and make the_nerd horny)

or just add these parameters to gcc "-Wall -lglut -O"

g++ -Wall -lglut -O CppSourceCode.cpp