Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000928094308.00b762f0@courriel.polymtl.ca> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:16:51 -0400 To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: Andre Bleau Subject: OpenGL: did you decide about distribution with cygwin ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id KAA32710 There has been some concern lately about the availability of OpenGL under the cygwin distribution. I think I explained about the version confusion. Did you (Chris, DJ, Corinna) decide if OpenGL will continue to be included in cygwin's distribution ? I really think that would be more convenient for programmers who want to build OpenGL apps in the cygwin environment. >I do see an opengl-1.1.0-1.tar.gz in the latest/opengl directory that is >NEWER than the previous opengl-1.2.1-1.tar.gz. I remember that DJ put >this file in the latest directory but I didn't notice that the version >was older than the previous version. > >This will undoubtedly generate a lot of confusion. I've removed the >directory until this is sorted out. > >I think that the best plan now if for you, or someone, to make a version >of the library available somewhere besides sources.redhat.com and let >people try it for a while. Once it looks like everything is working >correctly we can look into reinstating it in latest/opengl. > >cgf > >opengl-1.1.0-1.tar.gz is the last version. The opengl-1.2.1-1.tar.gz name >resulted from a mistake from my part about which version of opengl M$ was >providing. Please consult the archives for my message explaining what was >changed between from opengl-1.2.1-1.tar.gz to opengl-1.1.0-1.tar.gz . The >sources didn't change. opengl-1.2.1-1.tar.gz should be removed. The >corresponding source file could be simply renamed with a 1.1.0 version. > >opengl-1.1.0-1 is really stable; I have been using it for about two months >now. The only change I forsee is when the next version of the GLUI library >will come out, sometime this fall. > >I don't have an ftp or web site of my own, so DJ agreed to host this on >the Cygwin site. > >The need for opengl-1.1.0-1.tar.gz comes from some cygwin distribution >"peculiarities": Cygwin, I mean cygwin-1.1.4.tar.gz, contains 3 front-end >libraries related to OpenGL: libopengl32.a, libglu32.a and libglut32.a , >but it does not contain the corresponding .h files, so opengl programmers >were out of luck in Cygwin. It did not contain the glut32.dll either, >without which libglut32.a is useless. I packaged cygwin-compatible >versions of GL/gl.h, GL/glu.h and glut.h along with glut32.dll to resolve >these problems. I added the GLUI library, which I find really usefull to >build GLUT and OpenGL GUIs. I agreed to maintain this package. > >If you don't want to host that package, I suggest that at least GL/gl.h, >GL/glu.h and glut.h are added to /usr/include in the next Cygwin release. >People could get glut32.dll at the GLUT web site. I could try to have >GLUI's author keep a Cygwin precompiled version of the library on his >site. But I think the current packaging is more convenient for Cygwin users. André Bleau, ing., analyste email: bleau at courriel dot polymtl dot ca (Fight SPAM: encode your email-address) Département de génie électrique et Electric Engineering and de génie informatique Computer Engineering department École Polytechnique de Montréal Montreal Polytechnic School -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com