Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version svn-20091121

Chapter 24. X Libraries

freeglut-2.4.0

Introduction to freeglut

freeglut is intended to be a 100% compatible, completely opensourced clone of the GLUT library. GLUT is a window system independent toolkit for writing OpenGL programs, implementing a simple windowing API, which makes learning about and exploring OpenGL programming very easy.

If you built the GLUT library during an installation of MesaLib-7.6, you do not need to install this package.

Package Information

freeglut Dependencies

Required

MesaLib-7.6

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/freeglut

Installation of freeglut

Install freeglut by running the following commands: 

sed 's@-Werror@@g' -i configure &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&
install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/freeglut-2.4.0 &&
install -v -m644 doc/freeglut_user_interface.html \
    /usr/share/doc/freeglut-2.4.0

Command Explanations

sed 's@-Werror@@g' -i configure: This command removes the -Werror flag from the CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS environment variables to avoid compilation failures due to old coding standards.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libglut.{so,a}
Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/freeglut-2.4.0

Short Descriptions

libglut.{so,a}

contains functions that implement the OpenGL Utility Toolkit.

Last updated on 2009-09-27 05:33:40 +0000