opengl and cygwin

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

Cygwin follows UNIX conventions for library names.  That means the glut
library is named libglut.a.  If you installed the OpenGL package, you 
should find this in /usr/lib.

Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX



At 03:42 PM 2/5/2002, Ling F. Zhang wrote:
>Thanks for that information.  I read the info.  If my
>understanding is correct, the opengl that came with
>cygwin is just like the one with windows and all I
>have to do is link. so I just added -llib to my gcc
>line...well, it returns symbol not found error...okay,
>that sounds to me that my lib PATh is incorrect...so I
>tried to look for the file like glut.lib...that came
>up empty...so can anyone ever played with opengl on
>cygwin tell me how should I link? what PATH do I need
>to add?
>
>--- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
>wrote:
> > At 03:03 PM 2/5/2002, Ling F. Zhang wrote:
> > >this seems like an X question, but it concerns
> > openssh
> > >as well, so I am going to ask.
> > >okay, I need to do some opengl development. I found
> > >that opengl library comes with cygwin, that's a
> > plus
> > >for me.  but I think I might need to install xfree
> > for
> > >cygwin in order for it to work (is this true?)
> > >say I need to install, but I don't want to. I have
> > >exceed, so, can I just run exceed, forward the
> > >DISPLAY, an expect anything to work at all?
> > >
> > >if I am talking non-sense here...can anyone tell me
> > >how to get opengl to work? since it's included in
> > the
> > >cygwin package? (does it include glut? or do I have
> > to
> > >compile / install it myself?)
> > 
> > 
> > Try /usr/doc/opengl-1.1.0/README.txt
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Larry Hall                             
> > lhall@rfk.com
> > RFK Partners, Inc.                     
> > http://www.rfk.com
> > 838 Washington Street                   (508)
> > 893-9779 - RFK Office
> > Holliston, MA 01746                     (508)
> > 893-9889 - FAX
> > 
>
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