Re: [Mesa3d-users] mesa installation problem - linux

[Adam K K. <ad...@vo...>]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:57:26 -0400
Ocean  Spring <mea...@gm...> wrote:

> 
> and i tried to run some opengl program, it failed. after i read some
> articles on Internet, it needs glut.h header file.
> then i installed freeglut.
> 
It would be helpful to know what program you are trying to run and what
error you are receiving.  

If you really are just trying to run a program, as compared to
compiling one, you almost certainly do not need glut.h.  If you are
trying to compile a program, and it does in fact need glut.h, you would
have to install the freeglut-devel package.  In Fedora (as with many
linux distributions), the header files needed for compiling programs
are included in -devel packages, separate from the libraries and
binaries needed to run programs.

Adam