Re: [sdljava-users] help getting space-invaders to run (GNU/Linux, FC4, GCJ)

[Ivan Z. G. <iva...@ya...>]

John M. Gabriele wrote:

>Ivan -- why use GLEW at all? Is it simply for platform
>independence?
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Yes it is so that we can support as many platforms as possible.

>On GNU/Linux, SDL by itself doesn't require it at all.
>There's a tool called glxinfo that tells all about what
>extensions are loaded/available (?), and I'm sure there's
>gotta be a way to use glx to do whatever GLEW is doing,
>right?
>
>I just took a look at the GLEW mailing list,
>https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=3D43720
>and it looks pretty barren.
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The list isn't actually used -- I should remove it.

>Ivan -- do you have a GNU/Linux box around for testing
>sdljava? I'm guessing you're on some version of MS Windows.
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This is all coded from my gento box ... ;) I could really use the help
of someone on Windows though -- for testing.

-Ivan/

>Thanks,
>---John
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>--- "Ivan Z. Ganza" <iva...@ya...> wrote:
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>>This is strange and I wonder why you are getting the error.
>>
>>I noticed you are on linux.  If your on linux I would try to build and
>>install everything from scratch starting with GLEW.  That _should_ most
>>certainly work.
>>
>>On my system here I have glew 1.3.1 and all the open gl examples are
>>working fine for me.
>>
>>We should try to figure out what is with that error though.
>>
>>-Ivan/
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>>Witold Bo=C5=82t wrote:
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>>>John M. Gabriele wrote:
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>>>>******** Reading classes from sdljava.jar
>>>>Native code library failed to load.
>>>>java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: libgljava: libGLEW.so.2: cannot open
>>>>shared
>>>>object file: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>>This makes no sense to me, since, the install notes:
>>>>http://sdljava.sourceforge.net/installation.html
>>>>say to use GLEW 1.3.1 (I installed 1.3.3) -- and there isn't
>>>>even a GLEW 2.0 out yet.
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>>>I had similar problem (although not on FC - I was using SUN's java on
>>>PLD linux ditro) and I really don't know why it is happaning
>>>
>>>... but I did a simlink named libGLEW.so.2 and everything started to
>>>work ;) I think it should work for you to (... but still it is not a
>>>real fix, just a stupid work-around).
>>>
>>>
>>>greetings,
>>>-me.
>>>
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