Re: [Plib-users] The Necessity of DLL's

[Adnan B. <adn...@gm...>]

if you put glut32.dll in your project folder it will still work as you
thinking about plib never used it but as i worked on glut and
glui.glui is small but interesting for menus instead of using right
mouse better to use GUI.


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On Apr 1, 2005 3:57 AM, Steve Baker <sjb...@ai...> wrote:
> Matt Jones wrote:
> > Hi, I'm new to PLIB and am just looking into whether it is suitable for
> > my project.
> >
> > The application will be on win32 (with a later view to porting across
> > platforms) and I expect to use either GLUT or freeglut.
> >
> > Does this mean I will have to provide the glut32.dll with my project?
> > Despite the possibility of statically linking with libraries like
> > glut32.lib it still seems all GLUT apps require this DLL too, and
> > ideally I want to minimise dependencies...
> 
> If you utterly want to minimise depenencies and your windowing needs are
> very basic (ie opening one window and rendering OpenGL into it) - then
> you may be able to manage with PLIB's own 'PW' windowing library.  For
> simple single window applications, it's a lot like GLUT...but it's a part
> of PLIB so there are no extra dependencies.
> 
> > So maybe freeglut is better for this (ie. it may allow static linking
> > without using any DLL's at runtime)?  Indeed I would much prefer to use
> > freeglut for a variety of reasons.
> 
> Both GLUT and freeglut will work as either statically or dynamically linked
> libraries.   I'm not a Windows user - but I think it's your choice.
> 
> > Hoping this question is not misplaced: what do I need to do to build an
> > application with freeglut (and remove dependencies on GLUT)?
> 
> Not much - freeglut is intended as a plug-compatible library - if you are
> compiled and running with GLUT.DLL, you can just replace that with the
> freeglut DLL and it should still work - you don't even need to recompile.
> 
> > I know in readme.GLUT it says it does not depend on glut, but without
> > the DLL there anything I try still gives the same 'unable to locate
> > glut32.dll'.
> 
> It sounds like you are still linking against it...look at your
> compile commands.
> 
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