[ODE] Building on MacOSX (and now Linux)

[Wesley Smith]

Well, you already have different source files for windows and X11. 
Using GLUT (just one of many options) would allow you to have just one
source file for getting a window as opposed to the 2 there are now.

I'm not sure if you're familiar with GLFW, but it works on just about
every platform I know.  It's easy to build and only has 1 header file.
 I've been using for for cross platform opengl on Windows, OSX (intel
and PPC), and Linux (Debian on 64-bit machines) and I've never had a
compilation problem with it.  IMHO, GLUT is seriously out of date and
should be stripped out of any library that depends on it.

wes

On 4/28/06, Rodrigo Hernandez <kwizatz at aeongames.com> wrote:
>
> Well, I dont think we want to introduce any further dependencies,
> specially when required just to
> build the test programs, if anything, I would really advocate to use SDL
> instead of GLUT.
>
> Wesley Smith wrote:
>
> >Why not link against the GLUT and OpenGL frameworks on OSX?  It's so
> >much easier and most environments are setup for it.  To compile the
> >Bullet domes on OSX, I changed their headers with the following
> >preprocessor commands:
> >
> >#if defined(__APPLE_CC__)
> > #include <GLUT/glut.h>
> >#else
> > #include <GL/glut.h>
> >#endif
> >
> >wes
> >
> >On 4/28/06, Ryan Gardner <ryebrye at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I think that a part of the problem building on a mac is that the autotools
> >>aren't finding the OS X's GL libraries correctly.
> >>
> >>If I manually edit the generated config files for drawstuff and destest to
> >>include and link with the /usr/X11R6/include and /usr/X11R6/lib it will get
> >>past the Open GL complaining in the make process...
> >>
> >>I found an m4 script on the web that may or may not help solve this problem.
> >>It's located here:
> >>
> >>http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/ax_check_gl.html
> >>
> >>I have not done anything with autotools before, so I have no clue where to
> >>put that script (or if it would even help)
> >>
> >>After I sidestepped the OpenGL hurdle by manually editing the makefiles, I
> >>had another problem come when trying to link libode.dylib
> >>
> >>ld: Undefined symbols:
> >>__Unwind_Resume
> >>
> >>That's where I'm at now. FWIW, ode 0.5 builds and runs fine on my Mac... so
> >>I know that the GL stuff (at least the old GL stuff) will work and build and
> >>run... etc..
> >>
> >>Ryan
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