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

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

Well to have the necessary headers on your machine, you should install freeglut-devel, mesa-libGL-devel, and mesa-libGLU-devel.  Then try compiling your program again.

Adam

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:34:25 +0800
Ocean  Spring <mea...@gm...> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> yes, my intention is do OpenGL programming under linux. so what should i do
> then.
> and i do need to compile a openGL/Mesa program.
> 
> please give me more advices.
> 
> thank you
> 
> OS
> 
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Adam K Kirchhoff <ad...@vo...>wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
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