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Re: Problem with opengl.dll
- To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: Problem with opengl.dll
- From: Andre Bleau <bleau at igb dot umontreal dot ca>
- Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 11:10:03 -0500
>Hello everybody,
>
>I recently installed the latest Cygwin on my NT machine and tried to
>port a program which uses openGL. It built without problems but when I
>run it complained that it couldn't find opengl.dll. I had a look and
>found an opengl32.dll in my winnt/system32 folder. I simply renamed it
>and tried again. Now the program complains that it can't find the entry
>point for "GetPixelFormat" in opengl.dll
>
>Obviously I'm doing something wrong :-(
>Is opengl32.dll actually a different library from opengl.dll, and if yes
>where can I get it ? Could it be a version problem, because the program
>I try to compile is already 2-3 years old ?
>
>Any hints are welcomed.
>
>
> Axel Kowald
From /usr/doc/opengl-1.1.0/README.txt:
Linking of code calling OpenGL, GLU, GLUT
-----------------------------------------
Add -lglut32 -lglu32 -lopengl32 to your link command.
^^^^^^^^^^
GetPixelFormat is not a fonction in OpenGL. Use wglGetPixelFormat.
André Bleau, Cygwin's OpenGL maintainer.
André Bleau, ing.
email: bleau at igb dot umontreal dot ca
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