[HOpenGL] problems compiling hopengl on freebsd

Sven Panne Sven.Panne@informatik.uni-muenchen.de
Tue, 27 Aug 2002 22:32:52 +0200


Chris Moline wrote:
 > hi. i am trying to compile hopengl on freebsd. however the compilation
 > fails with [...] i am thinking its because configure is having trouble
 > finding some libraries
 >
 > checking for main in -lm... yes
 > checking for library containing glEnd... no
 > checking for library containing gluNewQuadric... no
 > checking for library containing glXWaitX... no
 > checking for library containing glutMainLoop... no
 >
 > i have mesa-3.4.2_2. i am running freebsd 4.5 release. any hints on
 > what to do would be greatly appreciated.

It looks like OpenGL/GLUT is not installed on your machine or is in a
rather strange location. I'm not a FreeBSD specialist, so I can only
guess. What does

    locate libMesa libGL libglut gl.h glu.h glut.h

yield? Any FreeBSD people using HOpenGL out there to help?

Cheers,
    S.