Re: Future of OpenGL package (Earnie, please read this)

2003-10-02 Thread Nigel Stewart and Fiona Smith
I think we waited long enough for freeglut and some update of GLUT and GLUI is overdue. FreeGLUT has certainly gained momentum in recent months, but I sould say that GLUT will still be needed for a while. I recently suggested to the FreeGLUT list that GL/freeglut.h

Re: Future of OpenGL package

2003-10-01 Thread Brian Ford
Andre Bleau wrote: Brian Ford wrote: Andre Bleau wrote: Brian Ford wrote: 1.2 and 1.3 defines prototypes are already there in /usr/include/w32api/GL/glext.h Yes, I know. That statement started this thread. They (1.3+) are not available in /usr/include/GL/gl.h which is now found first by

Re: Future of OpenGL package (Earnie, please read this)

2003-10-01 Thread Brian Ford
Andre Bleau wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Andre Bleau wrote: Even, with 1.4 headers, you would sill need to jump through hoops to use 1.4 functionality. You will still need to load the functions dynamicaly before using them. You wouldn't be able to simply call the functions as when developing

Re: Future of OpenGL package

2003-09-30 Thread Andre Bleau
Brian Ford wrote: ... Even, with 1.4 headers, you would sill need to jump through hoops to use 1.4 functionality. You will still need to load the functions dynamicaly before using them. You wouldn't be able to simply call the functions as when developing for UNIX. A lot of the functionallity I

Re: Future of OpenGL package (Earnie, please read this)

2003-09-30 Thread Andre Bleau
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Andre Bleau wrote: ... Even, with 1.4 headers, you would sill need to jump through hoops to use 1.4 functionality. You will still need to load the functions dynamicaly before using them. You wouldn't be able to simply call the functions as when

Re: Future of OpenGL package (Earnie, please read this)

2003-09-26 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Andre Bleau wrote: Brian Ford wrote: Andre Bleau wrote: ... Are there any plans to update Cygwin's OpenGL headers to include 1.3 or 1.4 support? Be it via using the w32api Mesa ones, or by other means. Let that be clear: headers alone will not provide access

Re: Future of OpenGL package (Earnie, please read this)

2003-09-26 Thread Brian Ford
Andre Bleau wrote: Brian Ford wrote: No; if /usr/include/GL does not exist anymore, gcc will look in /usr/include/w32api/GL for #include GL/gl.h directives. Ahh..., ok. I didn't realize that. Makes sense, though. I was just being dense. Even, with 1.4 headers, you would sill need to jump

Re: Future of OpenGL package

2003-09-25 Thread Brian Ford
Andre Bleau wrote: Brian Ford wrote: I am glad that the ambiguity in gcc include search paths has been resolved. However, the OpenGL includes in w32api/GL are from Mesa, and are thus more complete and up-to-date. Well, I hope that Earnie Boyd, maintainer for the w32api package, will join this