Re: Need Mesa or OpenGL for compiling src rpm?

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Arian Hojat wrote:
> Hello all,
> New to the list. enjoying messing around with cygwin as I haven't 
> dabbled in
> linux for a year (and haven't ever messed with cygwin until recently).
> (long story short: Getting message 'You need Mesa or an OpenGL-System
> to compile Armagetron.' when compiling src rpm).


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> My last error cant figure out...
>
> checking for glVertex3f in -lopengl32... no
> OpenGL not found. Maybe it needs X11 to compile? Checking that...
> checking for main in -lX11... yes
>
> checking for main in -lXext... yes
> ./configure: line 12775: -L/usr/X11R6/lib: No such file or directory
> checking for main in -lXt... yes
> ./configure: line 12837: -L/usr/X11R6/lib: No such file or directory
>
> checking for main in -lXi... yes
> ./configure: line 12899: -L/usr/X11R6/lib: No such file or directory
> checking for main in -lXmu... yes
> ./configure: line 12961: -L/usr/X11R6/lib: No such file or directory
> checking for glBegin in -lopengl32... no
>
> configure: error:
>  You need Mesa or an OpenGL-System to compile Armagetron.
>  Maybe your libGL needs the X libraries and your system does not
>  find them? Read the file doc/install_linux.html.
>
> I thought cygwin came with Mesa libs for Cygwin/X? (Cyg has... "OpenGL
> Graphics - The Mesa 3D Graphics Library provides software-based OpenGL
> support.")
> I tried somehow on command line specifying where the mesa library is. but i
> wasnt sure if this path was even right (probably not)?
>
> % ./configure --x_libraries=/usr/X11R6
> and didnt work as well.
> I wasnt sure at this point, i was hoping for extra help.
>
> Thanx in advance.

Sorry, I don't know anything about Armagetron but it looks to me like the
configure script is getting confused and thinks that it's looking for
the win32 OpenGL rather than libGL.dll.a.  You may need to provide the
configure script with some schooling on *.dll.a files.

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