RE: Problems running OpenGL program on Cygwin

["Reid Thompson" <Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com>]

Larry Griffith wrote:
> Dear List Members,
> 
>     I'm a newbie to Cygwin who is trying to learn how to run
> an OpenGL program under Cygwin-X.  I used a standard program
> written by SGI (called cube.c) that I know runs correctly
> under Solaris 9, using gcc and the Mesa library, so I don't
> think the program itself is the problem.
> 
>     I ran xinit to get a bash shell, cd'd to the proper directory,
> and ran the
> following command:
> 
> gcc cube.c -o cube -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lglut -lGLU
> -lGL -lX11 
> 
> which compiles correctly (thanks to some assistance from your mailing
> list archives). 
> 
> When I type
> 
> ./cube
> 
> I get a black rectangle with no picture (and in particular no
> cube) and no error messages.  I can click the shell window and press
> CTRL-C to get out. 
> 
> I've checked the FAQ, the user guide, and the archives (which
> did give me some help), but I can't get past this point.  As
> already mentioned, I know this program works on
> Solaris/gcc/Mesa, so I'm wondering if there is a problem with
> my cygwin installation, libraries, or commands.
> 
> I'm running the latest version of the Cygwin system as far as
> I can tell on Windows XP SP2.

as info - i dl'd cube.c, pasted your compile command above, called
./cube -- all worked as expected.
do you have any cygwin precompiled x binaries available ( xclock??? ),
if you call xclock, what is the result?

reid