RE: [Freeglut-developer] freeglut extremely slow

[Norman V. <nh...@ca...>]

Steve Baker writes:
> 
> Richard Rauch wrote:
> 
> >  * I do not think that you get accelerated OpenGL support in CygWIN.
> >    It works, but if you are doing complex rendering, it will probably
> >    be slow.
> 
> You DO get OpenGL accelleration with CygWin - if you have accelleration
> under Windows generally.  Lots of people compile my games under CygWin
> and report that the speed is good.  CygWin doesn't have it's own OpenGL
> library - so it must be using the standard Windows library.

To get OpenGL accelleration using Cygwin you must use Win32 graphics 
-lglut32 -lglu32 -lopengl32

i.e. if you use Cygwin with 'X' you will *NOT* have OpenGL acceleration

HTH

Norman