problem with cygwin and GLUT on Vista

[Greg Chicares]

On 2008-11-06 14:43Z, Michael McGuffin wrote:

[interference from non-Cygwin dll]

> So I temporarily renamed the 
> glut32.dll under system32 to "disable" it, and ran "cygcheck ./main.exe" 
> again, and found that now it was finding C:\cygwin\bin\glut32.dll .  Now 
> my program works fine, and so do my other OpenGL+GLUT programs.  I don't 
> recall this interference between glut dll files being a problem on MS 
> Windows XP.

Perhaps you had a different $PATH. If renaming the dll in the
system directory causes problems with non-Cygwin programs and
you need to undo that workaround, then try putting /cygwin/bin/
before the msw system directory in $PATH when you run the
Cygwin glut program.

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