NVidia GLU glut GL simple program problems

OpenGL
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Hello, I am kind of new to all of this, trying to compile a very simple openGL program from a tutorial book. I know this thread was already started, but the solutions already offered didn’t work for me.

Here is what I have:
mandrake 8.1 GeForce2Go
gcc or g++ or c++ foo.c -lGL -lGLU -lglut

produces aproximately (bare with me, I had to copy this by hand as my unix is on the other partition and is not on a network at this time)

I wrote down the errors I am getting, here is what I have:
gcc foo.c -lGL -lGLU -lglut produces aproximatley

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/…/…/…/libglut.so: undefined refrerence to the following

…:glxBindChannelToWindowSGIX
…: glxCreateContextWithConfigSGIX
…: glxgetFBConfigAttribSGIX
…: XGetExtensionVersiopn
…: XFreeDeviceList
…: XQueryDeviceState
…: XListInputXDevices
…: XListInputDevices
…: glxQueryChannelDeltaSSGIX
…: glxChannelRectSGIX
…: glxChannelRectSyncSGIX
…: XFreeDeviceState
…: XOpenDevice
…: glxQueryChannelRectSGIX
…: glxGetFBConfigFromVisualSGIX
…: XMULookupStandardColorMap
…: XSelectExtensionEvent
collect 2: ld returned 1 exit status

Any help would be apreciated. I have been trying to get this going for a while now.

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If you knew that this question has been answered before could you have done a search for the answer.GLUT from Mesa lets you use your command line but the original GLUT requires additional libraries like -lX11. Check the makefiles or do a search.

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You know, when I installed Mesa, it didn’t even install glut. I tried both the command line options -with and without-glut, but neither produced the files, so I installed from the glut source at opengl.org.

I have been doing a little research, and it seems like this problem is due to certain SGI features not supported in NVidias version of glx? Is this the case? If so, what do I do about it?

Sam

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an update

  1. Reinstalled Mandrake 8.1
  2. Installed Mesa 4.0 + Demos (GLUT)
  3. Deleted libGL*
  4. Installed NVidia Drivers
    now gcc foo.c -lGL -lGLU -lglut produces
    /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to glXBindChannelToWindowSGIX' /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference toglXCreateContextWithConfigSGIX’
    /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to glXGetFBConfigAttribSGIX' /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference toglXQueryChannelDeltasSGIX’
    /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to glXChannelRectSyncSGIX' /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference toglXChannelRectSGIX’
    /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to glXQueryChannelRectSGIX' /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference toglXGetFBConfigFromVisualSGIX’
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Originally posted by shalperi:
[b]an update

  1. Reinstalled Mandrake 8.1
  2. Installed Mesa 4.0 + Demos (GLUT)
  3. Deleted libGL*
  4. Installed NVidia Drivers
    now gcc foo.c -lGL -lGLU -lglut produces
    /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to glXBindChannelToWindowSGIX' /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to glXCreateContextWithConfigSGIX’
    /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to glXGetFBConfigAttribSGIX' /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to glXQueryChannelDeltasSGIX’
    /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to glXChannelRectSyncSGIX' /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to glXChannelRectSGIX’
    /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to glXQueryChannelRectSGIX' /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to glXGetFBConfigFromVisualSGIX’ [/b]

I am not sure if the problems are in nvidia GL or mesa but there are problems with
those SGI extensions.

If you really do not need them , you write you try to do simple programs, do not use
mesa-4.

Use nvidia drivers with glu and glut that you have in mandrake disks. It should work.

;jackz

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You can use the original glut but additional libraries has to be linked. I think that Mesa glut does not need that because of the .la file. It is a textfile so you can examine it.

Newer Mesa is perhaps using glx extensions that nvidia does not support but it works with Mesa 3.4.2. About your update:
1 is not needed
try 3.4.2 instead of 4.0 in 2 if you want to use glut from Mesa
3 should be avoided since 4 is replacing not needed libraries.

I suggest the following:
download Mesa 3.4.2 from the Mesa site
unpack and do ./configure
cd src-glut
make
make install (as superuser)
check that you do not have conflicting libaries in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib

Hope this helps.

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Yes, jackz suggestion is perhaps easier but maybe will the OpenGL libraries be owerwritten. If you could not use glut before did you not install the Mesa.-dev package.

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Ok,

I am going to try Mesa 3.42.
Hope this works.

Sam

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Yup, Mesa 3.4.2 worked like a charm.
Thanks.

SH

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