[Freeglut-developer] Release Candidate 2 status

[John F. F. <joh...@cy...>]

>Gentlemen,
>
>         I am running down the demos in the Release Candidate 2 and 
> find that building the "spaceball" demo with MSVC6 gives me 99 
> errors and 14 warnings.  The first one is ...
>
>...freeglut\progs\demos\spaceball\vmath.h(12) : error C2054: 
>expected '(' to follow 'inline'
>
>Any ideas?  I don't expect the demo to run since the spaceball 
>changes to "freeglut" don't support Windows--quite apart from my 
>lack of a spaceball on my computer--but I should like it at least to build.
>
>         There is also the question of whether this should hold up 
> the release.  I am inclined to say no, because the spaceball is a 
> marginal capability in the first place, the library doesn't support 
> the spaceball under Windows, and this is a demo program rather than 
> being part of the library itself.  But if we find we need another 
> change and another release candidate, I would like at least either 
> to fix the compiler errors or slap a "#ifndef WIN32" around the whole thing.
>
>                 - John