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Re: OpenGL linker error


On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Ritter, Nils wrote:

> we try to compile a cutting software named Salmon with Cygwin. All the
> source code files compile to .o object files. But when the linker try to
> build the binary, there're many openGL errors.
>
> This is the command:
>
> g++ -o out-glut/salmon out-glut/adjacency.o out-glut/assemble-matrix.o
> out-glut/big-vector.o out-glut/bounding.o ... lots of object files ...
> out-glut/wx-salmon.o -lXi -lXt -lICE -lXext -lXmu -lSM -lX11
> -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/lib/w32api -lglut -lopengl32 -lm

Your first problem is that opengl32 is a Windows native library,
not an X11 one.  The X11 one is named GL.  You should not have a
-L/ib/w32api in this command.

Try reading /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/opengl*.README for clarification.

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