Please help me to run opengl programs in linux

[saravanan]

hi

i tried to complile a opengl program  in redhat linux 9 using the

command

gcc -L/usr/X11R6/lib -I/usr/include/GL -lXmu -lXi -lGLU -lGL -lglut
program1.c -o program1

it is giving an error message saying that it can’t find the glut.h in
usr/include/GL/ .I manually checked and i cant find the file in GL
directory.

i tried to install the pacakage glut-devel-3.7-12.i386.rpm but it
crashes linux and makes the situation even worse.

what package should i need to install in order to run opengl programs?

please help me.

thank you

Saravanan

[azcoder]

There are no “official” pre-compiled binaries for Linux.

Get the source files from:
http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut/glut_downloads.html

After untarring, simply follow the build instructions (they are in the README in the linus subdirectory).

Good luck and post with any problems…

[SFRuckus]

You may want to try freeglut instead of the regular old glut. A google search should give you all the information you need.

• SFRuckus