Re: linking problem with glut

[Suhaib Siddiqi <s_m_siddiqi at yahoo dot com>]

> I have problems linking programs with the glut
> library that is distribured 
> with Xfree (/usr/X11R6/static-lib/libglut.a).

Just a note.  Users must either rename libglut.a
shipped with Cygwin v 1.1.1 otherwise linking will not
work.  The libglut.a from Cygwin dist is is for Win32
and has no calls to X.

> 
> 1. This library is masked by the one included in the
> cygwin distribution 
> (/usr/lib/libglut.a), which I had to rename to
> oldlibglut.a for having g++ 
> to search /usr/X11R6/static-lib/libglut.a (with
> -L/usr/X11R6/static-lib 
> -lglut). No big deal.


Move them to a directory you like!  or rename the
shared lib directory lib to shared-lib then static-lib
to lib. 

Suhaib

> 
> 2. This library lacks several functions:
> glutBitmapWidth, glutGetModifiers, 
> glutSetCursor, glutBitmapHelvetica12, to name a few.
> 
> 3. Linking against /usr/lib/libglut.a instead
> doesn't seems to work. It 
> produces a long list of undefined symbols (almost
> all glut functions). I 
> checked it with the nm utility; it says
> /usr/lib/libglut.a is supposed to 
> contain the missing definitions, but ld can't
> resolve them.
> 
> So, does anybody has compiled a more recent version
> of the glut library ?
> 
> 
> André Bleau, ing., analyste
> email: bleau at courriel dot polymtl dot ca
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> 
> Département de génie électrique et         Electric
> Engineering and
> de génie informatique                      Computer
> Engineering department
> École Polytechnique de Montréal            Montreal
> Polytechnic School
> 


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