From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Newbie student needing help!
Date: 31 Jul 2003 08:13:34 GMT
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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.  

So you'll need a GCC port that makes Windows executables, not DOS
ones.  There is one hosted on DJGPP, called RSXNTDJ, but that's
largely a dead project these days, given the fact that fully native
ports of the GNU toolchain like Cygwin and MinGW32 have matured quite
a bit since then.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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