Re: [Freeglut-developer] Why do we need glut.h?

[Eric S. <er...@sa...>]

Eric Sandall said:
> I was working on getting Makefile.am/configure.in to compile (and install)
> our demo programs as well and ran into this when compiling Fractals:
>
> In file included from fractals.c:21:
> /usr/include/GL/freeglut.h:17:18: glut.h: No such file or directory
> /usr/include/GL/freeglut.h:18:26: freeglut_ext.h: No such file or
> directory
> fractals.c: In function `Display':
> fractals.c:86: error: `GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT' undeclared (first use in this
> function)
> fractals.c:86: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> fractals.c:86: error: for each function it appears in.)
> fractals.c:86: error: `GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT' undeclared (first use in this
> function)
>
> Why does freeglut.h require glut.h?  Isn't freeglut supposed to be
> independent of the non-OSS GLUT?
>
> -sandalle

nm about Fractals* not compiling, I'm an idiot.  How are they expected to
compile when freeglut isn't even installed yet?  However, playing around
with it did help me find the problem about freeglut_ext.h and glut.h not
being installed, so at least something good came of it.

-sandalle

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