Re: [Mesa3d-users] Presence of glext.h

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 10:00, Brian Paul wrote:
> Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >>>Braden McDaniel <br...@en...> writes:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  > Is it reasonable to expect the "glext.h" header to be part of a
> >  > reasonably modern (and functional) OpenGL/Mesa installation?
> > 
> >  Pet peeve alert.
> > 
> >  Mesa, yes.  OpenGL, no.
> > 
> >  GL/glext.h is an implementation detail and programmers should not rely
> >  on its presence.  In fact, if you see something like:
> > 
> >             #include <GL/glext.h>
> > 
> >  in one of your programs, you have a bug.
> > 
> >  Off the top of my head, the best reference that backs up my assertion
> >  is the extension writing guidelines.
> 
> The GL/glext.h file is included by GL/gl.h and you should not directly include 
> it in your application program.  I don't know how prevalent glext.h is outside 
> of the Linux world.

Thanks, guys. That helps a lot.

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