RE: FW: [Freeglut-developer] Current Status

[Norman V. <nh...@ca...>]

Brian Paul writes:
> 
> Fay John F Contr AAC/WMG wrote:
> > Gentlemen,
> > 
> >         A few days ago I received the e-mail below.  It has to do with 
> > compiling on some platforms which I don't know much about and requiring 
> > libraries that "freeglut" doesn't use any more.  Can somebody please 
> > check the Makefiles?
> 
> The sad fact is that the autoconf/automake stuff will probably fail 
> miserably on non-Linux platforms.  That's been my experience with 
> Mesa.  In fact, I recently ripped out all the 
> automake/autoconf/libtool stuff from Mesa.

automake, autoconf should just work as long as we build in the
proper tests.  Libtool can be a nightmare but the most recent release
is much better, at least as far as Win32 support goes

FWIW
PLIB relies on automake, autoconf *not* libtool and seems to compile
just about everywhere OpenGL is supported.  It's build system doesn't
support shared libraries but IMHO that isn't required for small libraries
like freeglut 
$ ls -l libfreeglut-1.3.a
-rwxr-xr-x    1 nhv      None       107264 Jul  1 17:03 libfreeglut-1.3.a

We could just 'borrow' what we need from PLIB's configure files
and have a non-libtool static libraries only build system that should be 
quite portable
 
> I just checked in a few version tweaks (i.e. make libfreeglut-2.0.so 
> instead of libfreeglut-1.3.so, etc).

I am sure you meant  libfreeglut-2.0.$(SO_EXT)   :-)))

Cheers

Norman