Glut - What/How to Install & What to Attach/Include

drdroid · 10-18-2003, 09:24 AM

I installed the development libraries for glut the other day and I've been having some troubles compiling some source I got out of the book. This could be concidered multi-posting but, believe me, it's not. Here are the steps I took:

Code:

1. I downloaded the glut libraries and such as rpm's.

2. I installed them.

3. I rebooted the machine.

4. Attempted to compile software.

Is anything missing there? Next is there anything that I should do special when compiling the source, ie. options for the g++ command?

randomblast · 10-18-2003, 05:17 PM

glut sux.
i had it installed as standard with my redhat install and no programs that i tried to install from RPMs or compile from source could find glut, even after editing these programs source configure files and source code to use the libraries that i had not yet installed.
i kinda got somewhere with 3dfile, it compiled half the thing after i had removed the other bugs in the code (undeclared variables, mainly in debug and error messages which i did not really need)
vega-strike just would not compile at all, even though it finds the header files and libraries, and it was getting stuck on glut.

megaspaz · 10-18-2003, 08:14 PM

did you download and install glut-devel? you're gonna need that i believe. as far as compiling programs, you can use the -lglut option when invoking the compiler. glut works just fine. you need glut-devel for developing in glut though.

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glut sux

randomblast · 10-19-2003, 04:32 PM

and where does one get glut-devel?
it shure aint on the glut site, and personnaly i hate RPMs..is this my only option?

megaspaz · 10-19-2003, 04:43 PM

actually, the are no linux packages of glut on the glut site period (unless you want to say the Unix tarball is a linux package). yes, rpms are the only options AFAIK.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...=Google+Search

randomblast · 10-19-2003, 05:08 PM

bah.. i got the tarball
i also had it installed in the first place with my redhat but it still didn't work - mebe glut-devel doesn't come with it

megaspaz · 10-19-2003, 05:19 PM

well if you really want to see if glut-devel was installed just query your rpm database. my guess is that glut and/or glut-devel doesn't install on default and that they're both 2 seperate rpms so installing glut only installs the *.so file. installing glut-devel should install the header files in /usr/include.

edit: i meant query your rpm database before installing glut-devel that you got as a tarball.