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

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

Israel C. Evans wrote:

>
> 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.

You're missing the key piece of information: for what platform?  Oh, I 
see later it's OS X...

> 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?

This depends on your compiler.  Don't know what mac requires, honestly, 
the Python-for-mac people take care of all that and contribute back 
patches if there's a problem.  Here's what their .cfg files looks like 
at the moment:

include_dirs=Macintosh HD:SWDev:Jack:OpenGL SDK:Headers
library_dirs=Macintosh HD:SWDev:Jack:OpenGL SDK:Libraries
    Macintosh HD:SWDev:Jack:OpenGL SDK:Resources

which suggests (to me, anyway) that the OpenGL code is available from an 
OpenGL SDK somewhere.

> 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.

AFAIK you'll need Numeric for PyOpenGL to build properly.

> 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?

No clue I'm afraid.  I would expect it to be available already, given 
OSX's extensive use of OpenGL.

Good luck,
Mike

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