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From: "Dean C. Tsai" <dctsai DOT work AT gmail DOT com>
Subject:  glut, OpenGL, undefined reference to glutCheckLoop()
Date:  Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:09:43 -0500
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I've inherited a simple simulation from a Mac user. When I it compiled with 
... -lglut32 -lglu32 -lopengl32 -lgcc, the following error messages showed 
up:

...."undefined reference to glutCheckLoop()".

So I googled "glutCheckLoop", it turns out it is part of the enhancement Rob 
Fletcher did to the glut library back in 2003, and his version has been 
incorporated to the Mac's library distribution....but it is not incorporated 
to the Cygwin's version.

I went to Fletcher's site and found some files  (glut32.dll, glut32.lib, and 
glut.h) but frankly I have no clues if I can use them, or I should put them 
if I can use those files. I remember reading that applications must be 
re-compiled in Cygwin, does that mean that those files are useless for me? 
Can someone please shine some lights on me?

I did some researches in the archives just so that I am not spamming the 
list, but I cannot find anything on glutCheckLoop, and I cannot make senses 
of most of the related issues being discussed in the past. I am so 
discouraged and frustrated at the same time. I cannot believe how difficult 
this simple task turned out to be.

...I am not a "programmer", I am an analyst whoes dream is never need to 
worry about library, include, compiler, link~ We much prefer those being 
taken care of by you programmers.... :(

You helps would appreciated!

-Dean
dctsai DOT work AT gmail DOT com 




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