RE: [Plib-devel] Installing PLIB on a new machine

[Fay J. F C. AAC/W. <joh...@eg...>]

Gentlemen,
 
    In installing "plib_examples-1.8.4" on my new system I find that the
file "pw_pui.dsp" is missing.  I also find problems with the path to the
"glut.h" file; fixing this will take some discussion.  I see three
alternatives for Windows/MSVC systems.
 
    - We could ask the user to define an environment variable such as
"GLUT_PATH".  I don't like this because it's something that is system-wide
and not obviously related to PLIB.
    - We could include a copy of "GL/glut.h" in the PLIB distribution.  This
is not good because "freeglut", at least, is still evolving (slowly) and
there may be file incompatibility problems.  I know there aren't supposed to
be, but I do not like having two copies of a file.
    - We could specify a default location for "glut.h" in the MSVC include
directory.  In fact, the "gl.h" files are already in such a directory.
 
What do people think?
 

John F. Fay
850-729-6330
joh...@eg...
  

 

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Subject: [Plib-devel] Installing PLIB on a new machine



Gentlemen,

            I am moving offices-actually adding a second seat-and am
installing PLIB on the new computer.  It is a Windows machine operating from
a network drive.  On my first attempt to compile it compiled very well with
no path problems, which is an extremely good thing.  However, I got one
compiler warning message:

 

ssgAux\ssgaFire.cxx(129) : warning C4800: 'unsigned char' : forcing value to
bool 'true' or 'false' (performance warning)

 

I got a couple of other messages as well, but they were from having a copy
of PLIB that differs from the CVS copy.

 

            Frankly, I think this was a rather stringent test of compiling
PLIB and it passed, pretty much with flying colors.

 

John F. Fay

850-729-6330

joh...@eg...