[SOLVED] OpenGL - How?

cesura · 2010-04-26 02:05:53

Ok, this is probably the stupidest question I have ever asked:
I am interested in game development with C++ and OpenGL. However, I have no F-ing idea what I am supposed to download to get started. I searched both the Official Repos and the AUR and didn't find anything. Basically I want to get up and running with C++/OpenGL as easy as possible, but I have had trouble finding anything good. The page on the Wiki is completely useless on what to do.

Thanks

EDIT: I hope Multimedia and Games is the right section to put this in

Last edited by cesura (2010-05-04 23:42:26)

Allan · 2010-04-26 02:09:00

Google....

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/op … ction.html - first hit...

Edit: this looks good. Just click on the text versions:
http://www.videotutorialsrock.com/index.php

cesura · 2010-04-26 02:11:48

Next page...

"Introduction to Windows Programming"

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/op … mming.html

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Allan · 2010-04-26 02:16:32

Well... you never said you wanted to do it on Linux

cesura · 2010-04-26 02:18:25

Allan wrote:

Well... you never said you wanted to do it on Linux

Ahh, you got me there

ewaller · 2010-04-26 02:25:14

I eased into it using Qt. Everything you need is in there. The nice thing is you can easily build Qt application infrastructure around a GL widget making learning, development and debugging easy.

cesura · 2010-04-26 02:27:55

This:
http://www.videotutorialsrock.com/openg … x/text.php

states:

...the freeglut3-dev and mesa-common-dev packages provide these files

Those packages in Arch would be freeglut and mesa, as it seems to be installed. I'll do some test programs and see how it goes

ewaller wrote:

I eased into it using Qt. Everything you need is in there. The nice thing is you can easily build Qt application infrastructure around a GL widget making learning, development and debugging easy.

I don't like Qt because of the license

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cesura · 2010-04-26 02:48:06

Ok, it seems to be installed, but trying to make the first example on the page (cube) returns:

g++ -Wall -o cube main.cpp imageloader.cpp -lglut
imageloader.cpp: In function 'Image* loadBMP(const char*)':
imageloader.cpp:141:2: warning: suggest parentheses around '&&' within '||'
/tmp/cc8UDlVv.o: In function `handleResize(int, int)':
main.cpp:(.text+0x183): undefined reference to `gluPerspective'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [cube] Error 1

I tried the solutions in this thread to no avail:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=91281

Allan · 2010-04-26 02:53:46

itsbrad212 wrote:

Ok, it seems to be installed, but trying to make the first example on the page (cube) returns:
g++ -Wall -o cube main.cpp imageloader.cpp -lglut

So -lGLU did not work? Try -lGL as well.

Edit:

g++ -Wall -o basicshapes main.cpp -lGLU -lglut

Kiwi · 2010-04-26 03:00:36

Slightly not what you are asking about, but... http://nehe.gamedev.net/ has some pretty good tutorials if you have not found it yet.

cesura · 2010-04-26 03:01:41

Kiwi wrote:

Slightly not what you are asking about, but... http://nehe.gamedev.net/ has some pretty good tutorials if you have not found it yet.

Thanks! I'll take a look once I can get this working

EDIT: For now, I'll screw around in blender and see what I can do there

Last edited by cesura (2010-04-26 03:11:06)

Watermel0n · 2010-04-27 16:53:39

There is a huge problem with OpenGL development right now.
The current OpenGL Version is 4.0, but you can only find tutorials/resources for 2.0. They changed huge parts of OpenGL in 2.1 so if you want to learn the current OpenGL, you have to wait a few more months until more documentation is available. Many libraries, like SDL and Qt don't support the current OpenGL version in their stable releases, only deprecated versions.

bremarv · 2010-04-27 20:57:06

Watermel0n wrote:

There is a huge problem with OpenGL development right now.
The current OpenGL Version is 4.0, but you can only find tutorials/resources for 2.0. They changed huge parts of OpenGL in 2.1 so if you want to learn the current OpenGL, you have to wait a few more months until more documentation is available. Many libraries, like SDL and Qt don't support the current OpenGL version in their stable releases, only deprecated versions.

using opengl 2 should be enough if one wants to learn opengl. As for libraries, the SDL version that supports opengl 3.x works fine for me, but if it should not work the stable version of freeglut works with opengl 3.

cesura · 2010-05-04 02:04:27

I keep receiving this error with the linker:

g++ -Wall -o basicshapes main.cpp -lglut
/tmp/ccKxkrEZ.o: In function `handleResize(int, int)':
main.cpp:(.text+0x96): undefined reference to `gluPerspective'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [basicshapes] Error 1

falconindy · 2010-05-04 02:17:23

Missing a linker flag. Add '-lGLU'

cesura · 2010-05-04 23:42:11

falconindy wrote:

Missing a linker flag. Add '-lGLU'

Success! Thank you

gablab · 2016-12-20 13:41:40

Hi, I'm trying to install OpenGL, too. Could you resume all the steps you needed? Is installing mesa and freeglut sufficient?

WorMzy · 2016-12-20 13:54:44

Please don't necrobump.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closing.

Arch Linux

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