Re: [Vxl-users] Freeglut error when running vgui example

[Brendan M. <bre...@gm...>]

I don't think you can with freeglut. I think I solved the problem by
either downloading the most recent original glut (which is quite old -
3.7 I think), or more recently just not using glut and using qt.

Cheers,

B.

On 14/01/2008, Haishan Wu <hs...@fu...> wrote:
> Hello all, I now want to use vgui in my project, but when I run the example
> in  core/vgui/examples/example_text_windows, an error
> occured:
>
> freeglut  ERROR:  Function <glutBitmapCharacter> called without first
> calling 'glutInit'.
> vgui::uninit called
>
> My settings are : Ubuntu 7.10, freeglut 2.4.0. gcc 4.1.2
> After some google, I understood this error a little better:
>
> the 2.4.0 release announcement at
> |
freeglut.sourceforge.net:
> |
> | "Users should note a new incompatibility with GLUT, in which GLUT
> | allowed the application to call some functions before 'glutInit' was
> | called. This is contrary to both good programming practice and the GLUT
> | documentation, and the new 'freeglut' enforces the initial call to
> | 'glutInit'".
> It seems that the freeglut of version 2.4.0 results in this error. But how
> can I fix it?
>
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Cheers,

Brendan