Re: [TuxKart-users] nothing compiles!

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Dick Mac Innis wrote:
> 
> This is not a game specific problem, it happens with all the games that use
> PLIB, including the PLIB example programs.

Fortunately (or not) I'm also the owner/maintainer of PLIB.

>  The configure scripts work fine,
> but when i do a "make", it ends prematurely with the errors "glut.h: no such
> file or directory" and the same for gl.h and glu.h .

It's hard to see how that could be because the configure script checks for
gl.h and glu.h

Please delete the file 'config.cache', re-run the './configure' script
and send me the output it generates and the file 'config.log' - that's
usually enough to track this down.

> I don't know much about programming and am kind of new to linux,
> so it seems to me that it can't find mesa,

Yes - it does, doesn't it.  It should have said so at the configure
stage though - and that puzzles me.

> but I know it's installed in /usr/X11R6/local and I know I
> have PLIB installed (I'm not sure where. I used the mandrake RPMS to install
> these (I'm running Mandrake 7.1)...

We've had a LOT of problems with those RPM's - although they *are* Mandrake-generated
and you are the first person I've come across who is actually using Mandrake - so
that may not be the problem.

> and I even made some symblolic links to the
> mesa libraries from /usr/local.

That's not a bad idea - but /usr/local isn't right.  The 'official' place
for Mesa/OpenGL is

     /usr/lib/libGL.so
     /usr/lib/libGLU.so
     /usr/lib/libglut.so

     /usr/include/GL/gl.h
     /usr/include/GL/glu.h
     /usr/include/GL/glut.h

> If anyone could help, these games look cool
> and I'd really like to solve this problem!

I'll be happy to offer what help I can - we usually manage to get
everyone up and running in the end.  It's rather time consuming
doing it remotely like this - but if you can be patient, we should
be able to get you going in a day or two.

Send me the configure stuff and we'll take it from there.

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