openGL (was: openGL and mesa)

[michael <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

michael wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 20:15 +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote:
>
> > On Friday March 18 2005 18:39, michael wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to install vis5d+ on a Debian box (2.4.27-1-686-smp kernel &
> > > 'testing' apt updates) and ./configure says I need "to install a 3D
> > > graphics library, preferably
> > > the free OpenGL replacement, Mesa"
> > >
> > > When I look at the available packages there's an enormity of them and I
> > > cannot distinguish the differences. I've `apt-get install`ed 'mesag3'
> > > but that's not helped in the configure stage.
> >
> > You need to install the development package. For generic OGL support, you only 
> > need xlibmesa-gl-dev. The headers should be comaptible with about every OGL 
> > implementation.
>
>
> Presumably the removal of mesag3 is as expected:
> $ sudo apt-get install xlibmesa-gl-dev
> Password:
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   xlibmesa-gl
> Suggested packages:
>   xlibmesa-dri
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   mesag3
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   xlibmesa-gl xlibmesa-gl-dev
> 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
> Need to get 697kB/973kB of archives.
> After unpacking 2171kB of additional disk space will be used.

Indeed, after proceeding with the above inst of xlibmesa-gl-dev, the 
vis5d+ configure still gives errors:

checking for glBegin in -lGL... yes
checking for gluProject in -lGLU... no
checking for glBegin in -lMesaGL... no
couldn't find OpenGL libraries!
checking for bgnqstrip in -lgl_s... no


Any ideas anybody?

Thanks, Michael


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