On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:48:18 -0800 Doogster <thedoogster@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm running Sid and I'm having trouble compiling OpenGL apps. > > Here's my situation. I have an IBM T23. My video card is an S3 Savage > and I'm using the drivers from dri.freedesktop.org. The point is that > I'm not using a Radeon or Nvidia card or anything else that comes with > its own OpenGL files; I'm only using the OpenGL header and library files > that come with xorg and mesa. > > I have xlibmesa-dri, xlibmesa-gl, xlibmesa-gl-dev, libglu1-mesa and > libglu1-mesa-dev installed. As far as I know, these should be what I > need to run and build OpenGL apps. > > glxinfo gives me "direct rendering: Yes". I have no trouble running > opengl screensavers in xscreensaver, or Ur Quan Masters in OpenGL mode. > Both of these programs are from apt-get. > > The problem comes when I try myself to compile something to use OpenGL. It > inevitably fails at the ./configure stage, saying that it can't find > the OpenGL development files. > > To take one typical case, I did "apt-get source planetpenguin-racer ; > apt-get build-dep planetpenguin-racer". When I tried to ./configure it, > I got: > > checking for GL library... no > checking for GL library (with pthreads)... no > checking for MesaGL library... no > checking for MesaGL library (with pthreads)... no > checking for opengl32 library... no > checking for opengl32 library (with pthreads)... no > *** Hmm, you don't seem to have OpenGL libraries installed in the > *** standard location (/usr/lib). I'll check in /usr/X11R6/lib, > *** since many distributions (incorrectly) put OpenGL libs there. > checking for GL library... no > checking for GL library (with pthreads)... no > checking for MesaGL library... no > checking for MesaGL library (with pthreads)... no > checking for opengl32 library... no > checking for opengl32 library (with pthreads)... no > configure: error: Cannot find GL library > > One interesting section I noticed in its config.log was: > > configure:6935: gcc-3.4 -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lSDL_mixer > -lSM -lICE -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXi -lXext -lXmu -lXt -ldl -lm > -L/usr/lib -lSDL -lpthread >&5 > configure:6941: $? = 0 > configure:6944: test -z || test ! -s > conftest.err > configure:6947: $? = 0 > configure:6950: test -s conftest > configure:6953: $? = 0 > configure:6966: result: yes > configure:7024: checking for GL library > configure:7043: gcc-3.4 -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lSM -lICE > -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXi -lXext -lXmu -lXt -ldl -lm -L/usr/lib > -lSDL -lpthread -lSDL_mixer -lGL >&5 > /usr/bin/ld: BFD 2.16.91 20060118 Debian GNU/Linux assertion fail > ../../bfd/elflink.c:6203 > /usr/bin/ld: conftest: hidden symbol `__fini_array_end' in conftest is > referenced by DSO > /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > I've tried building other OpenGL programs, of course, and they've ALL > failed at the ./configure stage, saying that they can't find the OpenGL > libraries. > > Help me out here. > > I want to be able to build OpenGL programs from source. > > What am I doing wrong? you need, I assume, some opengl -dev libraries. apt-cache search opengl | grep dev shows quite a few, including some that match your configure output pretty closely. A > > When I tried find information on this problem, The only reference I > could find was http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=332753 > and that's only supposed to affect those with Nvidia cards. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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