Re: [ooc-compiler] New OpenGL bindings available

[Frank C. <fj...@wo...>]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:10:13PM +0800, Stewart Greenhill wrote:

> Here are some new bindings for OpenGL.

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> Under OSX, you can just do:
>   oo2c -r . --make Test2
>   bin/Test2

This worked under Debian GNU/Linux (testing), after...

> in the extracted directory. For other operating systems, you will have 
> to adapt the LINK directives in the interface files.

Gl.Mod: MODULE Gl [ INTERFACE "C"; LINK LIB "GL" END ];
Glu.Mod: MODULE Glu [ INTERFACE "C"; LINK LIB "GLU" END ];
Glut.Mod: MODULE Glut [ INTERFACE "C"; LINK LIB "glut" END ];

> Also there (under "misc"), is the original source used by the 
> translator to generate the output modules. Unfortunately there's no 
> documentation yet for this tool but if you're interested this will give 
> you an idea how it works.

I'd be interested to have the source code for the translator. The most
recent version of H2O I can find is h2o-20020204.tar.gz, which I gather is
not the version used to generate these interfaces.

> Feedback is welcome, although I can't necessarily help with any 
> problems at the moment.

Running bin/Test2 consumed 100% of CPU to rotate a simple wireframe object.
This was a bit surprising on an Athlon 1700+ but I gather this is a
"feature" of the freeglut implementation of libglut.

Frank Copeland
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