Hi everyone. I know some opengl that I learned back when I used windows, but then converted to linux. I knew how to create a window and all that, without glut but now that I am set up with linux, I want to continue to learn OpenGL, but don't know how. does anyone have an example file to create a window with opengl enabled (I would like to stay away from GLUT and wxWindow)?

NeHe has lots of tutorials about openGL, and they have Linux SDL, and glx versions for most of the examples.

thanks, i tried that but with bordland c++ builder X (anjuta crashes when i create a project), i get 37 errors (lesson 4 - linux/STL) related to SOME of the functions and classes:

"main.cpp": main.cpp error: `SDL_Quit' undeclared (first use this function) at line 35
35: SDL_Quit( );
"main.cpp": main.cpp error: `SDL_Event' undeclared (first use this function) at line 196
196: SDL_Event event;
"main.cpp": main.cpp error: uninitialized const `SDL_VideoInfo' at line 198
198: const SDL_VideoInfo *videoInfo;

this sort of thing. any ideas? there were no errors related to header files.

Have you got the SDL stuff installed properly? Perhaps the GLX way would be better for you.

that sounds good but i got even more errors when i tried that. same sort of stuff, just more

First off, you might need to include a relative pathname to the SDL header such as:
#include "/usr/include/SDL/SDL.h"

(keep in mind that this path might be different on your system, so just search for SDL.h)

then you need to be sure to make sure you tell g++ to build with the SDL libraries like so:
g++ -lSDL inputfilename.cpp -o outfilename

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