Re: [Freeglut-developer] Running "freeglut" on cygwin

[André B. <and...@ho...>]

> Gentlemen,
> 
> In the hubbub of getting 2.6.0 out the door, I put off doing 
> anything about this. At present I am not able to run anything 
> "freeglut" in my Cygwin window. I was advised a month ago by Andre 
> Bleau that ...
> 
> <quote>
> It seems you have built freeglut under Cygwin to use X. So you need 
> to install and start Cygwin's X server and set your DISPLAY 
> environnement variable to point at it. Right now it looks like that 
> variable is empty hence the error message you got.
> </quote>
> 
> I realize that this is elementary to the point of being trivial, but 
> how does one do this?
> 
> - John


Hi John,

 

To install Cygwin's X server, you use the setup program found at http://cygwin.com/ ("Install Cygwin now" link).

 

Please note that Cygwin is on the verge of releasing a new major version (1.7), after months of beta testing. Does that sound familliar? I think it would be better to test freeglut with 1.7beta than with the soon-to-be-deprecated 1.5 version.

 

To install Cygwin 1.7 and packages compiled for it, including the X server, go to http://cygwin.com/#beta-test and use the new setup-1.7 program.

 

There is currently a freeglut 2.4.0 package for Cygwin 1.5. It is built for use with the X server: http://cygwin.com/packages/freeglut/ . The maintainer is Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>. He's very active, so I expect that he will build freeglut 2.6.0 for Cygwin 1.7 as soon as he hears about it. You may contact him to discuss the build procedure.

 

For my part, I plan to release a freeglut-native (non X server based) package of freeglut 2.6.0 for Cygwin 1.7 early next year, to replace my old OpenGL package.

 

- André Bleau, Cygwin's volunteer OpenGL package maintainer.

 
 		 	   		  
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