Re: [Freeglut-developer] [Freeglut-bugs] Incompatibility with FLTK

[Robert P. <r...@al...>]

I'm in accord with Mr. Baker on this one.  If you want to debug your  
code without a zillion #ifdefs, you can create a stub freeglut  
library and link against it.  It's a one-line change to swap in the  
real library.

- Rob

On 22 Oct 2007, at 19:13, Steve Baker wrote:

> Fay John F Dr CTR USAF 46 SK wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> 	What do people think of moving the check for initialization into
>> a "#ifdef DEBUG" block where a call to an uninitialized "freeglut"  
>> will
>> not cause a crash?
>>
> I think it's a terrible idea.  The whole of freeglut presumes you've
> called glutInit
> as you are supposed to.  Without that, VERY BAD THINGS will happen and
> it's important the user knows about it.
>
> It's better the program exit cleanly with an unambiguous error  
> message than
> try to carry on and thereby exhibit hard-to-diagnose problems later  
> on.
>
>    Steve