Re: [Plib-users] Installation woes

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Samuel Mc Kee wrote:
> I do a make install as root. Here's the output I get:

g++ -DPACKAGE=\"plib\" -DVERSION=\"1.8.0\" -DHAVE_LIBPTHREAD=1 -DHAVE_LIBGL=1 -DHAVE_LIBDL=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1  -I. -I. -I../../src/sg -I../../src/pui -I../../src/fnt -I../../src/util    -g -O2 -Wall -c -o puAux.o `test -f puAux.cxx || echo './'`puAux.cxx
In file included from ../../src/pui/pu.h:2139,
                  from puAux.h:27,
                  from puAux.cxx:26:
../../src/pui/puGLUT.h:36:22: GL/glut.h: No such file or directory

> I'm running Mandrake 9.2.
> 
> Any clues?

Well, it's complaining that GLUT (or freeglut) isn't installed.

So installing freeglut will fix things up just fine.

That's a simple thing to do - you can get freeglut from
http://freeglut.sf.net - and it installs very easily.

However, we're supposed to have fixed PLIB so it doesn't NEED
GLUT/freeglut from version 1.8.0 onwards.

I think what's happening is that when end-user applications
do a '#include <plib/pu.h>', we try to deduce which window
library he's using - and if he doesn't say - we fall back
and assume he's using GLUT.

What I think is the problem is that the 'pu' library code
knows to include puLocal.h instead of using the public
interface in order to avoid the 'assumption' of GLUT.

Looks like we forgot to make that change to the puAux
library.

I'll fix it in the next release...but for this release
it looks like you need GLUT in order to install PLIB
even if you aren't using it.

Sorry about that!



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