Re: [Freeglut-developer] FW: freeglut for Win32 ..

[Rolando R. <ro...@cm...>]

Hi Richard ..

Richard Rauch wrote:
>Strange...
>
>If you are going to build a Makefile for yourself and build a shared
>library, then unless are intimately familiar with making DLLs with
>MinGW by hand, I would suggest at least getting your hands on
>libtool.  As I read libtool's docs, the primary raison d'etre for
>libtool is that there was at one time something of a profusion of
>strange and wonderful ways that operating systems handle shared
>libraries.
>
>Maybe you already know about that and are sure that you're better off
>without libtool.  But...thought I'd mention it.  (^&
>
>  
I know how to build a library static or shared by hand ..

In Windows I am trying to compile the library with
Dev-C++ on purpose ..

I am using libtool with the crosscompiler in linux BTW 

>
>If you're going to do this, I'd suggest adding the "-static" option to GCC
>as a precaution.  It's probably not necessary, but...
>
>  gcc.exe -static -c main.c -o ...
>
>...likewise, use -static with gcc in your homebrew Makefile for building
>freeglut.
of course libfreeglut was compiled with -static ..
>>
>>Compiling  is nice but then linking is not easy with your config generated
>>    
>                                                       ^^^^
>
>Not *mine*.  (^&  Not if you're using freeglut.  I haven't been an
>active freeglut developer in over a year.  I remain interested in its
>developments, in part because at one time I put a lot of time into it.
>But it's *their* config, not mine.  (^&
>
>If you're interested in exchanging some non-freeglut discussion
>about getting a GLUT family library running under MinGW, contact
>me off-list.
Well OK sorry about the confusion,

Thanks but I have GLUT compiled already for MinGW, I like freeglut
because it's enhancements ...



Cheers,

Rolando.