[PyOpenGL-Users] Building PyOpenGL from scratch...

[Israel C. E. <is...@ua...>]

hello all..
I'm attempting to build PyOpenGL from scratch and I'm a little 
unclear
on some of the directions.  I'm hoping you can help clarify some 
things
for me.  My intention is to build PyOpenGL for Python2.4.


Currently I'm stuck on this part which is described under the 
heading
"extra setups steps before building from source.
"""
Make the GL, GLU and GLUT headers available to distutils
On Win32 for MSVC++ (which doesn't really have global include/lib
directories), you can create directories at the same level as 
the source
root named include and lib (i.e. ..\include and ..\lib are 
searched for
the libraries)
Files are: GL.h, GLAUX.h, GLU.h, glut.h, glsmap.h
If you're on Win32 and don't have a copy of the headers/libs, 
the SGI
Win32 OpenGL distribution has base-library headers which can be 
used, as
does the OpenGL95.exe archive described above
"""

I'm fairly new to building software from scratch and I'm not fully
understanding what must be done.. How does one make the GL, GLU 
and GLUT
headers available to distutils?

So far, I've built PIL, and Numarray, but not Numeric.. I'm still
working on Numeric.  Is Numarray a workable substitute?  I 
assume it
wouldn't just work if I dropped it in though..  I've got Tcl/Tk.

I'm not sure about building GLUT.  Would anyone have any 
pointers to
getting this package for macosx 10.3 intended for python 2.4?



Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
~Israel~