Hey guys,
This is my first time posting on this forum and I am kinda desperate. I am taking a computer graphics class in college and we are using OpenGL. We are supposed to install Mesa in Linux if we want to work on our project at home which is what I am doing. Here is what I have accomplished so far

*I downloaded Mesalib-5.0.tar.gz and Mesademos-5.0.tar.gz from the Mesa website and extracted everything into a single directory.
*I ran make linux-86 to compile the libraries
*I copied over some of the libarary files to my lib directory as stated in the readme.x11 file in the docs directory that came with Mesa

Now I am trying to run a sample program that we were given and I am having no luck. When I type make, the program compiles fine, but when I try to run it a window pops up that says cannot find the program teatex_withmenu which is the name of the program I am trying to run. My make file is as follows...

INCLUDE_DIR = -I/usr/include/X11 -I/Marc/classwork/ceg477/Mesa-5.0 -I./ -I/usr/X11R6/include
LIBRARY_DIR = -L/usr/lib -L/Marc/classwork/ceg477/Mesa-5.0 -L/usr/X11R6/lib
LIBRARIES = -lglut -lGLw -lGLU -lGL -lX11 -lXext -lXm -lXt -lXmu -lm
COMPILER_FLAGS = -O -w
COMPILER = g++

OBJ_FILES = teatex_withMenu.o
EXEC = teatex_withMenu

$(EXEC): $(OBJ_FILES)
$(COMPILER) $(COMPILER_FLAGS) -o $(EXEC) $(OBJ_FILES) \
$(LIBRARY_DIR) $(LIBRARIES)

teatex_withMenu.o : teatex_withMenu.c
$(COMPILER) $(COMPILER_FLAGS) $(INCLUDE_DIR) -c teatex_withMenu.c

clean:
\rm -f *.o *~ core

I was getting errors about bad symbols before I aded a couple more paths to the lib and include constants. Does anyone have any suggestions for me?? We have to fool with a bunch of sample programs and make some small changes to them before thursday and I can't even get them to run I would greatly appreciate any help.

Marc

What distribution are you using? Can't you just install binary packages (RPM, debs)? What does the INSTALL file included with the paqckage say? Don't you have to 'make' and then 'make install' rather than manually installing things?

Shooting some suggestions from the hip, as you've not much time.

I am using RedHat 8.0. I assume I could use binary files if I knew where to get them. All I found on the Mesa website was the archives. Any more suggestions?

http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2htm...mit=Search+...
here you go

but will the rpm for Redhat 7.2 work? I don't see anything for 8.0

Also, that is a very old version of Mesa. The newest is 5.0, that only finds version 3.

OK... I completely started the installation over and used the "new-style" method of installing as stated in the INSTALL file. I ran ./configure then make, then make install. I also installed the oss-opengl-glu libraries using an rpm. Now, when I try to compile the sample program that was given to us by our teacher, I get an error as follows...
[root@rs236129 sample]# make
gcc -O -w -o teatex_withMenu teatex_withMenu.o \
-L/usr/lib -L. -lglut -lGLw -lGLU -lGL -lX11 -lXext -lXm -lXt -lXmu -lm
./libglut.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [teatex_withMenu] Error 1

The make file I am using now is as follows....
INCLUDE_DIR = -I/usr/include/X11 -I.
LIBRARY_DIR = -L/usr/lib -L.
LIBRARIES = -lglut -lGLw -lGLU -lGL -lX11 -lXext -lXm -lXt -lXmu -lm
COMPILER_FLAGS = -O -w
COMPILER = gcc

OBJ_FILES = teatex_withMenu.o
EXEC = teatex_withMenu

$(EXEC): $(OBJ_FILES)
$(COMPILER) $(COMPILER_FLAGS) -o $(EXEC) $(OBJ_FILES) \
$(LIBRARY_DIR) $(LIBRARIES)

teatex_withMenu.o : teatex_withMenu.c
$(COMPILER) $(COMPILER_FLAGS) $(INCLUDE_DIR) -c teatex_withMenu.c

clean:
\rm -f *.o *~ core

We were given the libglut.a file which is producing the error with the sample program. Maybe I should try getting rid of it? Any other ideas?

I deleted the libglut.a file that was given to us with the sample program and that fixed the error I was getting but I got another one saying that -lx11 could not be found so I added another path to the include and library strings which fixed that error. Now I am back to the same thing I was getting before. Everything compiles fine when I type make but when I double-click the executable in my file browser a window pops up titled "konqueror - sorry" and it says "Couldn't find the program teatex_Withmenu" and then it has an OK button. teatex_Withmenu is the same name as the executable file. What in god's name is going on here???? Anyone help please!!!!

Please use a binary.

Donload the RPM files from RPMFind and install that.

rpm -i Mesa-3.4.1-1.386.rpm

If you have problems compiling a large package like Mesa then it's probably a version problem which will have you running in circles until Thursady next year.

Your priority is to use Mesa, not tweak it, right?

Yup, I want to use MESA but that rpm is of a very old version

How about version 4.01 ?