[HOpenGL] Re: ANNOUNCE: HOpenGL 1.05 released

[Glynn Clements]

Jens Petersen wrote:

>     SP> I am pleased to announce the sixteenth release of
>     SP> the Haskell binding for GL 1.2.1 / GLU 1.3 / GLUT
>     SP> 3.7beta.
> 
> I'm trying to build it on Fedora Core 1 with ghc-6.0.1,
> greencard-3.01, XFree86-Mesa-libGL and
> freeglut-1.3-1.20020125.3.  The library seems to build ok,
> but when I try to build the examples I get:
> 
> cd /home/petersen/haskell/HOpenGL/HOpenGL-1.05/examples/misc/
> LANG=C make 
> "/usr/bin/ghc" -o Info -i../../lib:../../GLUT -I../../lib -package lang -fglasgow-exts    -I/usr/X11R6/include "-#include <GL/freeglut.h>" -O    Info.o -L../../lib -lHOpenGL -lGLU -lGL -lSM -lICE -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext -lXmu -lXt -lXi -lfreeglut-1.3 -lm 
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.3.2/../../../libfreeglut-1.3.so: undefined reference to `XF86VidModeSetViewPort'
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.3.2/../../../libfreeglut-1.3.so: undefined reference to `XF86VidModeSwitchToMode'
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.3.2/../../../libfreeglut-1.3.so: undefined reference to `XF86VidModeGetAllModeLines'
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.3.2/../../../libfreeglut-1.3.so: undefined reference to `XF86VidModeGetModeLine'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [Info] Error 1
> 
> I tried adding -lXxf86vm  to the link invocation but that
> didn't help.  Any ideas?

Ultimately this is an error in libfreeglut; if it needs the
XF86VidMode* functions, it should link against libXxf86vm when
building the shared library.

You should be able to work around the problem by adding -lXxf86vm to
the link command, but it has to come *after* the -lfreeglut-1.3
switch.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>