Install GLUT 3.7 on your PC

1. Download glut library and source from Nat Robin's web site:
(http://www.xmission.com/~nate/glut.html)
The zip file contains: glut32.dll, glut.h

3. Find where the OpenGL32.dll is installed on your computer. In my computer (running
windows XP) ,  it is at:

C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32

5. Find the vc lib path: Mine is at: F:\Program Files\DevStudio\VC\lib
( I am assuming that you have Visual C++ 6.0 or .Net installed)

6. Copy glut32.lib to the above directory

7. Find the vc include path: Mine is at: F:\Program Files\DevStudio\VC\include\gl

8. Copy glut.h to the above directory

Use GLUT/OpenGL on CIS Unix Server

On CIS's Unix Server (StdSun etc), we have Mesa3d, an OpenGL software
emulator, instaled that you can use. Since our unix server has no graphics hardware,
software implementation of OpenGL is the only choice. As you can imagine, a
Mesa3D program will be much slower than an OpenGL program that has direct
access to graphics hardware.

To use Mesa3D/GLUT, you don't need to install anything. You just need to
make sure that you set the paths to Mesa3D and GLUT libraries correctly.
Following is a sample Makefile that I used to compile a simple OpenGL program
main.C.

The Mesa3D libraries can be found at:

/usr/class/graphics/Mesa-3.0/lib

The important libraries are:

    libMesaGL.so  (equivalent to libGL.a or libGL.so in an OpenGL environment)
    libMesaGLU.so (equivalent to libGLU.a or libGLU.so in an OpenGL environment)
    libMesaGLw.a and libMesaGLwM.a - something to do with Mesa with X interface
    libglut.a:  GLUT 3.7 library

Also, header files for include are also important. They are at:

/usr/class/graphics/Mesa-3.0/include/GL

Now here is the makefile:

**** Note: You can copy the Makefile from:

/usr/class/graphics/694g/lab0/Makefile

Cut and Paste the following Makefile code might cause errors if you
forgot to change the <space> before the following line:

   $(CC) -o $@ $(CFLAGS) $@.o $(INCLUDES) $(LIBRARIES) \

to <tab>

#####################################################

MESA_DIR = /usr/class/graphics/Mesa-3.0

INCLUDES = -I$(MESA_DIR)/include \
        -I$(MESA_DIR)/widgets-mesa/include

LIBRARIES = -L$(MESA_DIR)/lib

# compiler option

CC = g++ -g

CFLAGS =

EXECUTABLES = main

.C.o:
        $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $(INCLUDES) $<
 

all: $(EXECUTABLES)

$(EXECUTABLES): $(OBJ_FILES) $$@.o
        $(CC) -o $@ $(CFLAGS) $@.o $(INCLUDES) $(LIBRARIES) \
        $(MESA_DIR)/lib/libMesaGLU.so $(MESA_DIR)/lib/libglut.a \
        $(MESA_DIR)/lib/libMesaGL.so -lX11 -lXmu -lm

clean:
        rm -f $(EXECUTABLES) *.o core
 

#######################################################

Use OpenGL on your Linux PC

/usr/class/graphics/Linux_Mesa

You will see a couple of Mesa related rpm files in the directory:

       Mesa-devel-3.1beta3-1.i386.rpm
       Mesa-3.1beta3-1.i386.rpm

Use the rpm installer program on your linux system to install these two packages. If they do not
work with your system - sorry. you will have to go to the web to look for a version that is
compatible with your system setup. I intalled them on my Mandrake 6.1 Linux without
problems (okay I know Mandrake 6.1 is old, but I am happy with it so far so become
lazy to upgrade).

You will also find two packages with their names starting with lesstif. "lesstif" is a
freeware version of X/Motif. You don't need to have these them unless you are
interested in writing your own X/Motif programs.
For a Linux hacker, I would assume you want to try out everything right?!

Okay, finally, you will need to install GLUT on your linux system - read on. I will
tell you about it in the next section.

Download Glut 3.7 for Unix/Linux

The glut 3.7 for unix/linux used to be placed under a SGI web site for their employee.
Unfortunately, this site was just recently being closed (what does this imply ?....)
Anyway, you can download the glut 3.7 source from here [3MB].
 

Last updated 9/22/2001 by Han-Wei Shen