Re: Linking against FLTK/OpenGL

[Rik]

On 07/18/2013 10:00 AM, address@hidden wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:19:07 -0400
> From: Michael Goffioul <address@hidden>
> To: Octave Maintainers List <address@hidden>
> Subject: Linking against FLTK/OpenGL
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> Hi,
>
> While investigating a link error under MSVC, I noticed that
> __init_fltk__.cc is not linked against OpenGL libraries directly, though it
> makes direct calls to OpenGL. I guess we assume that "fltk-config --libs
> --use-gl" will pull in OpenGL libraries so we don't have to include them
> explicitly on the command line, but isn't that mis-using fltk-config?
> Considering that we make direct OpenGL calls, isn't it good practice to
> link against the relevant libraries directly?
7/18/13

Michael,

Seems like a good idea, so I added it in this changeset
(http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/b3d4edc991c0).

--Rik