Re: [Freeglut-developer] Buidling freeglut-2.6.0-rc1 with mingw32

[Martin P. <li...@ma...>]

Sisyphus wrote:
> Hi,
> Does anyone here have comprehensive instructions for buidling
> freeglut-2.6.0-rc1 (or even 2.4.0) with the MinGW port of gcc on Win32 ?
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Hi Rob,

No comprehensive instructions that I'm aware of, but I can say that I've 
had success building both freeglut 2.4.0 and 2.6.0 RC1 with native MinGW 
(I have 2.4.0 binaries online at 
http://www.transmissionzero.co.uk/software/freeglut-devel/). I didn't 
use the configure script, rather I built my own Makefile.

The static library is quite easy to build. Just define "FREEGLUT_STATIC" 
when compiling all of the object files, then do an "ar r 
libfreeglut_static.a [object files]" on the object files, and then 
"ranlib libfreeglut_static.a".

The freeglut DLL is also quite easy to build. Just define 
"FREEGLUT_EXPORTS" when compiling all of the object files, and then a 
"gcc -o freeglut.dll [object files] -s -shared -lopengl32 -lgdi32 
-lwinmm -Wl,--kill-at" (the "--kill-at" being to make it more binary 
compatible with Nate's GLUT for Win32 package, but slightly complicating 
the building of the import library).

For the import library you need to create a module definition file 
containing the functions with their stdcall decorations, i.e. 
"glutAddMenuEntry@8". Then just run "dlltool -d [def file.def] -l 
libfreeglut.a --kill-at".

I hope this helps. Let me know if you want a copy of the Makefile, def 
file, etc., and I'll send them over to you.

Regards,
Martin