Re: [Chromium-dev] Darwin's different GL naming scheme - configure?

[Christopher W. <cr...@ms...>]

Yup, and I just committed it.  Couldn't do it forcefully, so I worked 
around that.  Now Darwin builds from source without any extra setup. :)

  -Chris

On Oct 1, 2004, at 4:46 PM, Brian Paul wrote:

> Christopher Waters wrote:
>> Due to the way Apple has OpenGL organized, all of the GL header files 
>> are in different locations than on other platforms (GL/ -> OpenGL/ 
>> and GLUT/)
>> Up until now, I've been using symbolic links to point the compiler to 
>> the right gl header files, but I'm trying to get around that.  As of 
>> right now, my best thought is to go through and encase all of the 
>> includes with something like this:
>>     #ifdef DARWIN
>>     #include <OpenGL/gl.h>
>>     #include <GLUT/glut.h>
>>     #else
>>     #include <GL/gl.h>
>>     #include <GL/glut.h>
>>     #endif
>> What would be the best (portable) method of doing this without having 
>> to add these to every single file that needs it? (cr/progs/ 
>> especially)
>> I'm thinking a configure script would help for this, as well as other 
>> things, but I haven't seen any mention of one for chromium..
>
> Ick.  Every GLUT program I've seen uses #include <GL/glut.h>.  If that 
> doesn't work on Darwin, someone screwed up there.
>
> Perhaps a work-around for Chromium would be to make symlinks to 
> Darwin's gl.h, glut.h, etc in Chromium's cr/include/GL directory.
>
> That way, #include <GL/gl.h> and <GL/glut.h> could be satisfied by 
> Chromium's include/GL directory.
>
> Could the symlinks be automatically made during Chromium's build 
> process?
>
> -Brian