Perl OpenGL 2 / Bugs / #4 freeglut detection/installation fails on Windows/64bit

Chris Marshall - 2011-10-16

Thanks for the bug report, kmx. I'm still planning to add real detection
for OpenGL builds and to remove an explicit dependency on the choice
of GUI toolkit (i.e., FreeGLUT...) but haven't gotten to it yet. You might
try a ppm install from Rob's build of OpenGL-0.65 as a work-around:

http://www.sisyphusion.tk/ppmindex.html

Hope this helps.

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Chris Marshall - 2011-10-16

status: open --> open-accepted
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Chris Marshall - 2011-10-16

BTW, which strawberry perl version(s) were you reporting
for, any/all of them?

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kmx - 2011-10-16

as for the version - I have experienced troubles with strawberryperl 5.12.1.0/64bit

freeglut-2.6.0 is a part of all strawberry releases since April 2010 - therefore I guess it should be properly detected in Makefile.PL before it falls back to installing DLL embeded in OPGL

After a little tweaking I have managed to install OpenGL on 64bit/MSWin (hack was not so complicated) - I have started this ticket as it might not be so simple for "common users"

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kmx - 2011-10-16

More info what works in strawberry:

1/ headers

you can simply
#include <GL/glut.h>
or
#include <GL/freeglut.h>

without any additional -Ipath/to/inc/dir

2/ linker options

-lglut works (-lfreeglut DOES NOT)

again without any additional -Lpath/to/lib/dir

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Chris Marshall - 2013-09-24

As part of the modern OpenGL update to POGL, I'm spinning off the FreeGLUT/GLUT
support into its own module. I'll make sure the detection works there---finally!
A move to Alien::GLUT, Alien::OpenGL,... is planned as the ultimate fix.

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Chris Marshall - 2013-09-29

I've just pushed OpenGL-0.6701 with a hack-around the detection problems for strawberry perl. Based on a direct check for strawberry perl but it appears to work.

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Chris Marshall - 2013-09-29

assigned_to: Chris Marshall

Group: --> POGL 0.xx
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Alessandro Ranellucci - 2013-11-10

Hi Chris,

the same problem happens on CitrusPerl 5.14, but the fix doesn't work because it doesn't ship with FreeGLUT. What is your recommended way to install in this case?
Have you considered bundling a 64bit .dll too?

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Chris Marshall - 2013-11-10

Does the PPM install from the easy install option from
http://pdl.perl.org/?page=install work?
Ultimately, I plan to implement an Alien::FreeGLUT module to allow for
automated installs
via CPAN.

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Alessandro Ranellucci
alexrj@users.sf.net wrote:

Hi Chris,

the same problem happens on CitrusPerl 5.14, but the fix doesn't work
because it doesn't ship with FreeGLUT. What is your recommended way to
install in this case?
Have you considered bundling a 64bit .dll too?

[bugs:#4] freeglut detection/installation fails on Windows/64bit

Status: open-accepted
Created: Sun Oct 16, 2011 07:46 PM UTC by kmx
Last Updated: Sun Sep 29, 2013 06:15 PM UTC
Owner: Chris Marshall

Hi,

freeglut related magic in Makefile.PL is somehow broken when trying to
install OpenGL on 64bit MS Windows.

1/ The main reason is that Makefile.PL tries to install 32bit freeglut.dll
into my 64bit strawberry perl and to link with it

2/ Makefile.PL ignores the fact that my strawberry perl contains all
necessary .dll + .a + *.h files related to freeglut-2.6.0 (beware: for
some reasons it does not understand linker option -lfreeglut but -lglut) -
this should be also taken into account also for 32bit strawberry perl

I know that Chris gave me commit access to POGL repo so I should probably
provide a patch for this; however I am currently not able to spend enough
time on a quite complicated Makefile.PL

--
kmx

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- Sisyphus - 2013-11-11
  
  Oops ... missed cc'ing pogl:bugs.
  
  Hi Chris,
  
  No - that page is somewhat outdated and inaccurate in some significant ways,
  though the 2 other sources it indicates:
  
  http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pdl/index.php?title=Installing_PDL_on_Windows
  and
  win32/INSTALL file
  
  are up-to-date. (Actually, the INSTALL file still contains a reference to
  the fftw2 build of PDL::FFTW being achievable via perldl.conf - I'll fix
  that.)
  
  Is there some way the wiki page can be placed into "The easiest possible
  install" slot ?
  Assuming I can edit the pdl.perl.org page, I've no objection to
  copy'n'pasting (with minor edits, if needed) the wiki page into that slot
  each time I alter the wiki ... but I don't want to have to write and
  maintain yet-another-rendition of a "How To".
  
  Cheers,
  Rob
  
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Chris Marshall
  Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 4:39 AM
  To: [pogl:bugs]
  Cc: Sisyphus
  Subject: Re: [pogl:bugs] #4 freeglut detection/installation fails on
  Windows/64bit
  
  Does the PPM install from the easy install option from
  http://pdl.perl.org/?page=install work?
  Ultimately, I plan to implement an Alien::FreeGLUT module to allow for
  automated installs
  via CPAN.
  
  On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Alessandro Ranellucci
  alexrj@users.sf.net wrote:
  
  Hi Chris,
  
  the same problem happens on CitrusPerl 5.14, but the fix doesn't work
  because it doesn't ship with FreeGLUT. What is your recommended way to
  install in this case?
  Have you considered bundling a 64bit .dll too?
  
  [bugs:#4] freeglut detection/installation fails on Windows/64bit
  
  Status: open-accepted
  Created: Sun Oct 16, 2011 07:46 PM UTC by kmx
  Last Updated: Sun Sep 29, 2013 06:15 PM UTC
  Owner: Chris Marshall
  
  Hi,
  
  freeglut related magic in Makefile.PL is somehow broken when trying to
  install OpenGL on 64bit MS Windows.
  
  1/ The main reason is that Makefile.PL tries to install 32bit freeglut.dll
  into my 64bit strawberry perl and to link with it
  
  2/ Makefile.PL ignores the fact that my strawberry perl contains all
  necessary .dll + .a + *.h files related to freeglut-2.6.0 (beware: for
  some reasons it does not understand linker option -lfreeglut but -lglut) -
  this should be also taken into account also for 32bit strawberry perl
  
  I know that Chris gave me commit access to POGL repo so I should probably
  provide a patch for this; however I am currently not able to spend enough
  time on a quite complicated Makefile.PL
  
  --
  kmx
  
  Related
  
  OpenEMR: Bugs: #4
  
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Alessandro Ranellucci - 2013-11-10

I confirm that replacing FreeGLUT/freeglut.dll with the one shipped in http://files.transmissionzero.co.uk/software/development/GLUT/freeglut-MinGW.zip works out of the box for CitrusPerl too.

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