Re: [Freeglut-developer] FreeGlut and Mac OSX

[Bernhard F. <ber...@gm...>]

Hello,

it seems the Mac OS X linker has its own peculiar syntax for addressing 
installed libraries. I once had similar problems, maybe the solution I found 
works for you too: try "-framework OpenGL" instead of "-lGL".

Bernhard

John F. Fay schrieb:
> Theeba,
> 
> 	It sounds very much like the linker cannot find the "libGL" library file. 
>  Unfortunately I have no knowledge of Mac OSX so I cannot givey ou any 
> direct help there.  From my ignorance, I suggest simply that you search all 
> the likely places (and if that is not successful, search the entire disk) 
> for any file that begins with "libGL".  (I am assuming here that "-lGL" 
> refers to a file named "libGL" followed by an extension, just as "-lm" 
> refers to a file named "libm" with an extension.  You may wish to find the 
> "libm" file just to see what the library file names look like.)
> 
> 	Is there a high-level way to make sure that OpenGL has been installed on 
> your machine?  I presume that it has, since the include files must be there 
> for the library to compile.
> 
> 		- John
> 
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> From:	Theeba Soundararajan
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