Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Setting Up on New Machine

[Mike C. F. <mcf...@vr...>]

On 12-02-25 07:19 PM, Ian Mallett wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Mike C. Fletcher 
> <mcf...@vr... <mailto:mcf...@vr...>> wrote:
>
>     The tess issues seem to have been there for a long time; it works
>     perfectly well in OpenGLContext' usage and tests, and even works
>     if I copy the OpenGLContext test into a raw test, but the original
>     test doesn't generate vertices (it wasn't checking for that
>     previously).  At this point I'm assuming this is just a test-setup
>     issue, so not a critical fix.
>
> Yeah, I'm not too concerned about gluTess* stuff; there's hardware 
> support for tessellation now, which is better.  And I can honestly 
> say, I've not had need for either.
>
> I am having a new problem, however.  glutInit is failing.  The error 
> looks something like:
>
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module>
>         glutInit()
>       File
>     "C:\dev\Python26\lib\site-packages\pyopengl-3.0.2a4-py2.6.egg\OpenGL\GLUT\special.py",
>     line 324, in glutInit
>         _base_glutInit( ctypes.byref(count), holder )
>     TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable
>
> There are similar problems with other GLUT functions.  I read 
> somewhere that this may be due to 64 bit issues (i.e., PyOpenGL is 
> trying to use a glut32.dll compiled for 32 bit platforms).  Is this 
> the case?  And is there a way to solve it for the general case?
>
> Thanks,
> Ian
Likely need to recompile all of the glut, gle, accelerate etc DLLs if 
that's the case.  I'll see if I can get some time to do that today.  
Don't know if I have all of the compilation tools set up properly for 
the 64-bit Windows, so that might be a bit of a challenge (hopefully 
mingw64 exists and will work with 2.6).  Python 2.7 *should* IIRC work 
with the currently-available free compiler, so *that* should be 
straightforward.

Always more work than time,
Mike

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