Re: [Visualpython-users] Fixed Linux problem

[James T. <jt...@mi...>]

Thanks for getting that fixed Bruce, now I can get on to my simulation.  I
actually have an almost working version of a PyOpenGL version of visual
that supports a few of the simple shapes and frames.  After I get my near
term work finished I hope to be able to continue that to a more complete
state.

JT

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Bruce Sherwood <Bru...@nc...>wrote:

> On the Linux download page at vpython.org there is a rebuilt source
> package for VPython 5.72 which fixes the crashes on Linux (tested on
> the latest Ubuntu).
>
> The problem turned out to be that in src/gtk2/display.cpp the function
> Gdk::GL::get_proc_address is broken on recent releases of Ubuntu and
> Debian (and maybe Fedora) and has been replaced with glXGetProcAddress
> which does work.
>
> Bruce Sherwood
>
> P.S. I'll mention that in my many years of work with VPython on three
> different platforms, the Windows environment has been remarkably
> stable across operating system changes, the Mac environment much less
> so (in that until recently things broke when the OS version number
> changed in the last decimal place), and Linux also has been somewhat
> unstable.
>
>
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