From: dbi AT cris DOT com (Brian Morel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: SciTech MGL for free... so what?
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 12:36:42 GMT
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T DOT Harte_ AT _btinternet DOT com (Thomas Harte) wrote:

>>I just learned that SciTech just released their MGL graphics library free
>>of charge with full source code.  It supports OpenGL and I do believe it
>>can compile under djgpp.  Can someone please tell me the advantages of the
>>MGL library over say Shawn's excellent Allegro library?  Please note I am
>>referring to the graphics library portion and nothing else.

>	The advantages should in theory be obvious. It can do hardware
>accelerated 3d, using OpenGL and it can support DirectX surfaces, but
>these are not real advantages since the thing doesn't work! I've spent a
>total of five hours so far attempting to get it just to compile an
>example, and it won't. Has anyone actually got this to work? Yes, I am
>using the correct everything for DJGPP before you ask.

>		-Thomas

SciTech has removed the precompiled version for DJGPP and have written
requests in this news group for help in finding the problems.  The
Interprets seem to be the problem, but I can't really figure it out.

Brian Morel