[PyOpenGL-Users] PyOpenGL 3.0 with freeglut on Windows

[Patrick H. <pa...@13...>]

Has anyone tried using PyOpenGL 3.0 with freeglut on Windows? Using Python
2.6 and freeglut 2.4.0 compiled by Visual C++ 9.0, I get an error when
calling OpenGL.GLUT.glutInit() because __glutInitWithExit() is not part of
freeglut's glut32.dll. AFAICT, none of the GLUT Windows-specific extension
functions used in OpenGL.GLUT.special are included with freeglut. I can work
around this for my case easily, but I am not sure what the preferred
approach would be for fixing this in general. I would be happy to test and
submit a patch if I could get a hint or two about a way to do it that fits
with the PyOpenGL design goals.

While poking through the Python files in OpenGL/GLUT, I noticed that
HAVE_FREEGLUT in __init__.py is set to False when OpenGL.GLUT.freeglut
imports successfully and to True when it fails to import. That seems like
reversed logic to me. Is that a bug, or am I just misunderstanding something?

 -Patrick


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Patrick L. Hartling
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