[PyOpenGL-Users] Cannot build PyOpenGL 2.0.0.44 on Solaris 8

[John R. J. <jr...@ga...>]

First, my apologies.  I've been trying to build wxPython for more than
a week now and am not getting anywhere, so my mood is not at its best.
I'm very close to just giving up on Python.

I was originally using the Sun compilers, but that appears to be
impossible once you get to wxPython.  In the process, though, I got
through the PyOpenGL build without any trouble.  Well, sort of.  I had
to fix the GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY_EXT bug, and I created a sunos5.cfg
file out of linux.cfg with the following change:

  include_dirs=/usr/local/include:/usr/openwin/include
  library_dirs=/usr/local/lib:/usr/openwin/lib
  runtime_library_dirs=/usr/local/lib:/usr/openwin/lib

But those are both known items.

So then I went back to Python and rebuilt with gcc (2.95.3).  Now when
I try to do PyOpenGL it fails:

  building 'GLUT' extension
  ...
  Text relocation remains                         referenced
      against symbol                  offset      in file
  <unknown>                           0x80        /usr/local/lib/libglut.a(glut_8x13.o)
  [ ... About a bajillion similar errors omitted ... ]
  XOpenDevice                         0x1ac       /usr/local/lib/libglut.a(glut_input.o)
  ...
  gcc -shared build/temp.solaris-2.8-sun4u-2.2/GLUT.o -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/openwin/lib -Lbuild/temp.solaris-2.8-sun4u-2.2 -lGL -lX11 -lXext -lGLU -lglut -lXi -lXmu -linterface_util -lGLE -o build/lib.solaris-2.8-sun4u-2.2/OpenGL/GLUT.so

I found similar lines in the Python build that (obviously) worked just
fine, so I don't understand why it can't find those symbols.  In fact,
lots of "gcc -shared" things happened OK in the PyOpenGL build before
this as well.  It's something about -lglut.

Changing "gcc -shared" to "cc -G", however, makes this go just fine
(which is what the first build with cc did).

So basically I'm out of options.  I can't use the Sun compilers.  I can't
use gcc.

Can anyone guide me through this morass?

Please reply (or Cc) me directly.  I'm not on this mailing list.

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, jr...@pu...