[gameprogrammer] Re: GL 2.0 on Xorg w/ ATI's proprietary drivers

On Tuesday 16 May 2006 13:34, Latimerius wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:04:02AM +0300, Sami N??t?nen wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 May 2006 00:29, Latimerius wrote:
> > > As for the test, it's very simple.  Just try to compile the
> > > following program:
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > #include "GL/gl.h"
> > > #include "GL/glext.h"
> > >
> > > int main ()
> > > {
> > >   glCreateProgram ();
> > > }
> > >
> > > </snip>
> > >
> > > using the following command:
> > >
> > > g++ -g -Wall -DGL_GLEXT_PROTOTYPES -o test test.cpp -lGL
> >
> > I think that this has something to do about the fact that you have
> > to query the function pointers. Earlier NVidia drivers had this
> > requrement too.
> >
> > Now this works as it should, IF you use the nvidia glext.h as you
> > obviously seem to in the NVidia machine.
>
> Hmmm ... I can compare GL headers on both machines but
> querying pointers should not be needed when using core API.
>
> Anyway, even with querying function pointers libGL.so should contain
> string "CreateProgram", is that right?  When I extract all strings
> (i.e not just linker symbols) from libGL.so (using 'strings' program)
> there's no such string.

No. libGL can direct the pointer queries to some lower level lib.


Try glew

http://sourceforge.net/projects/glew/

Windows binaries are available and if you use Gentoo just `emerge glew`

Other linux distros should have it too.

Glew is anyway the easiest way to use OpenGL portably, when combined 
with SDL.


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