Re: [Chicken-users] OpenGL on MinGW

[felix winkelmann]

On 9/24/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:

> - I modified the attached opengl.setup file to remove GLUT support.
> GLUT is ancient.  The last official release of GLUT was in 1998, it is
> unsupported, and the license does not allow modifications of the source
> code to be distributed.  FreeGLUT is more recent, dating to 2005, but it
> didn't compile on MinGW.  GLUT should not be assumed to be available or
> maintained on all platforms.  As such, it needs to be moved to its own egg.

I haved separated the opengl and glut functionality into two different eggs.

> - the attached sdl-gears.scm demo (thanks again from Felix) will compile
> with the following build command.  It then runs just fine, proving that
> the opengl support works.
>
>   csc sdl-gears.scm -C `sdl-config --cflags` -L "`sdl-config --libs`"
>
> - the build fails with:
>
>   csc sdl-gears.scm -C "`sdl-config --cflags`" -L "`sdl-config --libs`"
>
> There is a problem with -C and quoting the resultant
> -I/usr/local/include option.

I'm somehow sceptical about your shell. Is this the MSYS shell?
(does such a thing exist? I dunno nothin' about mingw, see)


cheers,
felix