[ODE] Building on MacOSX (and now Linux)

[Rodrigo Hernandez]

Lets just not blow this out of proportion, I am testing the script Ryan 
proposed right now, seems to work at least for MinGW so far,
I'll test it on Linux and if everything is fine, I'll commit, lets try 
not to introduce any new requirements for now.


Wesley Smith wrote:

> 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  IMHO, GLUT is seriously out of date and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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