Re: [Plib-users] Error: can not find working glut

[Bernie B. <bb...@bi...>]

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:19:32 -0500
KSt...@ne... wrote:

> 
> Hi all you guys! I am new to this list. You know, I am facing the same
> problem with our friend Andrew here:
> 
> > Andrew Karpenko wrote:
> > > checking for glutGetModifiers in -lglut... no
> > > configure: error: could not find working GLUT library
> 
> I understand the source of my problem
> 
> > ...pretty much what it says - you don't have GLUT installed properly.
> > You should have /usr/include/GL/glut.h and /usr/lib/libglut.a or
> > libglut.so
> 
> but I don't know what to do to get things right. Specifically, I don't have
> a /usr/include/GL/glut.h header file. I installed glut-3.7-8 via rpm at RH8
> ,so, libglut.so.3.7 appeared in /usr/lib (but no .h file at
> /usr/include/GL). Any ideas how to work around this problem? Thanks in
> advance.

You also need to install the -devel rpm.  I don't use RedHat but on my
Mandrake 9.0 machine I have libMesaglut3-4.0.3-6mdk as well as
libMesaglut3-devel-4.0.3-6mdk.

Bernie