Re: opengl (mesa) compiling problem.

[Felix Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>]

Jan Krupa <krupa@alpha.sggw.waw.pl> writes:

> I would like to use the mesa (opengl) library in C or C++.
> 
> I installed (debian2.2 potato) 
> mesa-glide2 3.1-17
> mesa-widget 3.1-17
> mesademos
> 
> or tried (instead)
> mesa-dev
> mesag3
> 
> I tried to compile some example of using opengl (mesa) library
> with the following heather:
> 
> #include <GL/glut.h>
> 
> and using the following command:
> 
>  gcc  -lglut -lMesaGLU -lMesaGL -lXi -lXmu -lX11 -lXext -lm -o 
> triangle triangle.c

the Mesa-prefixes have been dropped to make it easier to port
applications to MesaGL.
I compile with, for example:
gcc -Wall -o gluttest gluttest.c -lGLU -lglut -lGL -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lXmu

you might have to install a "glut"-package as well.
-- 
Felix Natter