Re: [Mesa3d-users] sgi's glut vs mesa-glut

[Stephen J B. <sj...@li...>]

On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Raul Dias wrote:

> I am still trying to understand Mesa and OpenGL issues.
> So this is time for the glut library.
>
> SGI's glut  (now in www.opengl.org) is in version 3.7b since
> 1998.
>
> Mesa's glut implementation seems to have updated the 3.7 library
> a long time ago (and in Mesa 4.0.1 fixed the extensions issues).

Apart from that, I don't believe there are any significant changes.

> So, my questions regarding this is:
>
> Does the glut in Mesa lacks any feature from the "official" glut?

No.

> If it does, are this missing features important (for a Linux
> point of view at least)?

No.

> Will Mesa's glut work with other libGL even with OpenGL
> implementations != 1.3 (1.0, 1.1, 1.2) ?

Yes.

> If I have a generic /usr/lib/libGl.so.X installed != Mesa,
> will this affect the compilation of Mesa and it components?
> (like GLUT, GLU, ...)

No.

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