Re: [Plib-users] Fw: "Could not find working GLU library" when compiling,

[Ben W. <za...@ec...>]

Hello

Before you get a responce from Steve I would just like to give you a quick
answer.
First, the OpenGL standard is that GL and GLU should be found in /usr. The
libraries are in /usr/lib and the headers are in /usr/include/GL.
As far as glut, its not part of OpenGL, its a seperate library. But it
should also be found in the same directories.
Ben
ps. You sould send a message to Mandrake and tell them to follow the OpenGL
ARB.
In case you don't know *.so and *.a files are libraries, and *.h are header
files.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Kieran O'Callaghan" <ki...@ti...>
To: <pli...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 4:48 AM
Subject: [Plib-users] Fw: "Could not find working GLU library" when
compiling,


> I am not actually having this problem anymore.  I figured it out.  The
> instructions on downloading and installing PLIB on the PLIB site
> helped point me in the right direction. It always bothers me,
> however, when someone writes to simply create a symbolic link in
> one directory to the library file for X in another directory without
> giving the slightest hint what the files themselves may be named.
> Sure, I can figure out, but it's much easier to find out from someone
> who already knows.  Anyway, one of the places I checked for help
> on this was the mailing list archive.  I could not find anything, but
> maybe my search was not as complete as it could have been.  In
> any case, I am putting the entry I made into my own system log
> here, so that it might possibly help someone out in future.  I
> probably will not post to this list again, so signing up for the list may
> be slight overkill.  I suppose I could have asked someone on the list
> to post it for me, but that would have required that I know someone
> on the list, which probably requires me to already be on the list....
> Anyway...
>
> When trying to run the .configure script for PLIB 1.6.0 on my system
> running Linux Mandrake 8.2, the script got to an error:
> Could not find working GLU library
>
> In order to get PLIB 1.6.0 to compile correctly, had to create some
symbolic
> links for several library files:
> cd /usr/lib
> ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1 libGLU.so.1
> ln -s libGLU.so.1 libGLU.so
> ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libglut.so.3 libglut.so.3
> ln -s libglut.so.3 libglut.so
> That took care of most of the problems with the .configure script of PLIB,
> but it also complained about glut.h.  It is supposed to be in
> /usr/include/GL, but it is not there.  It is also not in
> /usr/X11R6/include/GL, which is where I hoped to find it.  Discovered that
> the missing file is in the libMesaglut3-devel.rpm, which was not
installed.
> Installed it, it required libMesaGLU1-devel-4.0.1-4mdk.rpm to be installed
> as a dependency.  Installed that as well.
>
> After installing that, the .configure script worked.  Possibly all those
> manual symbolic links I made would have been completely unneccessary if
> I had installed those RPMS to begin with.  In any case, it works now.
>
>
>
>
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