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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:55:01 -0500 (CDT)
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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Subject: Re: OpenGL and Cygwin
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 suresh AT research DOT att DOT com wrote:

> thanks Andre ! the fix worked. I can now compile helloglut and many of
> the red book opengl demos.
>
I went back to review this thread, but I am unsure exactly what fix you
actually used.  It would help greatly to see your exact compile line, and
to know what headers/libs you are, or think you are, using.  Did you move
/usr/include/GL/[gl.h glu.h] out of the way like I suggested?

BTW,

Andre Bleau wrote:
>Forget about LD_LIBRARY_PATH; it is not used by cygwin.

Plain old PATH is sort of the equivalent here to find DLLs.

> I noticed that glGetMinmax and some histogram related functions are not
> supported. It is possible that this is because these are opengl 1.2
> functions.
>
I short, yes.  But I really need to know what headers/libs you are using
to give you the correct advice on how to obtain them.

> By setting appropriate flags I got the appropriate GL_flags
> set correctly:
>
You mean defining GL_VERSION_1_2?  So, you are using the headers from the
opengl package in /usr/include/GL.  That is ok as long as you don't want
1.3 functionality.  Otherwise, I suggest following my "move out of the
way" suggestion.

>  however it appears that the libopengl32.a supplied with
> cygwin is only opengl1.1 compliant, which appears to be consistent with
> the README.
>
That is because Microsoft only supplies 1.1 functionality.  If you want
greater, you must load those functions as extensions.

> I have more recent nvidia drivers (I think :)): Is there any way to
> convert them to to a linkable form ? (i.e using dlltool or something like
> that). I
>
You do.  Most nvidia drivers are 1.3 or 1.4.  You don't need to convert
them, they are linkable as is via the normal described methods.

I think I can probably be of great help to you here, but you need to
describe you problems/goals in much greater detail.  I promise to try my
best to help if you do.

-- 
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
Phone: 314-551-8460
Fax:   314-551-8444

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