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Re: OpenGL linking problems
- From: André Bleau <andre_bleau at hotmail dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 20:31:43 -0400
- Subject: Re: OpenGL linking problems
David Doria wrote:
> Hi André,
Hi David,
>
> I think I'm trying to build an X11 application - I'm trying to use a
> library called VTK (http://www.vtk.org/). I don't believe it uses
> glut, and I do see a bunch of X11 options in the CMake files. Even if
> there is no support for hardware acceleration with this method, it
> should still build, right?
For X11, you need at least the following packages:libGL1, libGL-devel;
and possibly libGLU1 and libGLU-devel. Ask questions at cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
if you need help with these.
You should link with /usr/lib/libGL.dll.a by using -lGL
>
> I do have C:\Windows\System32\opengl32.dll .
Expected; it comes with every version of Windows since Widows 98!
> I should also have the
> w32api package because I installed all of the cygwin packages.
That's no use for an X11 app.
>
> Any other thoughts of things that would causes these linking errors?
>
> Thanks for your help so far,
>
> David
- André Bleau, Cygwin's opengl package maintainer.
Please send any question or comment about the opengl package to cygwin at cygwin dot com,
not directly to me.
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