From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: What best to use for opengl under djgpp and linux
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:04:20 +0100
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"Eric Botcazou" <ebotcazou AT libertysurf DOT fr> wrote:

> > Been playing a little bit with Allegro, but would also like to try
> > opengl programing. What is best to use? Does Allegro do opengl?
> 
> The OpenGL support (Win32 or Linux only, not djgpp) is not included in the
> main library but provided as an external package dubbed AllegroGL available
> at:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/allegrogl/

Is that Allegro on top of OpenGL?

I think the OP wants to try his hand at writing code for the OpenGL API.
In that case he should look at the Mesa library (link is in the FAQ, but
from memory it's http://www.mesa3d.org/).

However, it is worth browsing the mail archives for (both recent and
past) messages on Mesa because it isn't well supported under DJGPP.  

Although it can be done - I had to do a UNIX style `./configure', `make',
`make install', the supplied DJGPP makefiles just don't work.  Then found
someone else (Berhard Tschirren) had ported it to run on top of Allegro.

Please don't let this put anyone off!  Just do some research before
diving in, because (last time I looked) the Mesa readme files do not tell
the whole story for DJGPP.  

And when you do get it working please *document* what you did and post it
here and/or the Mesa mailing list.