From: Andrew Cottrell <spam AT bigpond DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Newbie student needing help!
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:50:54 +1000
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On 31 Jul 2003 08:13:34 GMT, Hans-Bernhard Broeker
<broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:

>Adrian Woodcraft <ja DOT woodcraft AT student DOT qut DOT edu DOT au> wrote:
>
>> Now I've started an introductory graphics subject, so 
>> have downloaded SGI's OpenGL version 1.1 for Windows and 
>> GLUT version 3.7, which I want to use as an extension to 
>> my present DJGDD/pfe 32 Windows 98 setup.  Various people 
>> have assured me it CAN be done, but NO-ONE has been able 
>> to tell me HOW to do it.
>
>> So:-
>> (i)   Is it possible?
>
>Not with your current toolset.  OpenGL and GLUT are Windows native
>libraries, whereas DJGPP is targetting the DOS platform.  DOS is
>a subsystem of Windows that has access to only a small part of the Windows
>API.  
Go and check out www.mesa3d.org for the mesa 5.01 and get the DJGPP
port. I do not know how complete it is.

From 5.01 changes:-

Mesa 5.0.1 has been released. This is a stable, bug-fix release. 

    New:
	- DOS driver updates from Daniel Borca


Andrew