OpenGL issues...

I have been having trouble following tutorials for learning OpenGL. More specifically, RoD's tutorials. They make sense, I can completely comprehend what is being explained. But suddenly, I hit a dead end. In one of the tutorials (The 5th maybe?Something like that:P) it gives a whole bunch of source code and says to compile it and you should see a robot. I go to compile it and I get a bunch of problems. Library missing, undeclared this, undeclared that...I beleive the problem may be in one or more of the following items:

1. I am running Dev-C++ on Windows XP Home
2. Maybe I don't have the most recent OpenGL libraries
3. Maybe Copy & Paste won't work here??

Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

>>Library missing, undeclared this, undeclared that...

as detailed as that is, maybe a snippit of the actual errors would be more informative. also, try http://nehe.gamedev.net for some opengl tutorials.

sorry for the lack of details...i thought that maybe there was a file that would give me all (or as most as possible) of the files that are needed to use opengl. i included a list of the errors(only about 1/3 of them, more if requested) from 2 screenshots spliced together. thanks for the help

the pic didnt show up, here it is again...hopefully it will show

It looks like you havent included t he correct headers

Originally Posted by sand_man

It looks like you havent included t he correct headers

ok...could you possible tell me which one i am missing?

Considering it can't find GLX's constants I'll assume you haven't done one of two things:

1) You haven't included GLX's headers (probably glx.h).
2) You don't have GLX's headers in a spot normally checked by your development tool - you can probably change where it looks in the project options. Simply include the directory GLX is found in.

OK....sounds like you know what you're talking about, :P. I have searched and searched through all of my folders in the compiler folder and i have not found it. Is there a place I could download it to put into my lib?Thanks

Okay I did a quick lookup on OpenGL.org. Here is what they say:

"GLX 1.3 is used on Unix OpenGL implementation to manage interaction with the X Window System and to encode OpenGL onto the X protocol stream for remote rendering."

As you can see, GLX is for Unix. But you are using Windows. My advice is to do what has been mentioned earlier and just switch to NeHe's tutorials. Especially since those are for Windows and not Unix.

thanks for the info...shouldnt the tutorials say they are for unix though? i read them and it doesnt say anything about platforms...


edit: I went to NeHe's site and started trying to learn it. I got to lesson 1 I downloaded the lesson 1 source code in dev-c++ format(because thats what i use) and opened it. I hit compile, it says "glaux.h - No such file or library."

So I open the lib folder and it is in there. (libglaux.a) what could be going wrong THIS time??

That is something I definately know about. Glaux is an older library that ceased being used for various reasons. I believe they involved it being full of memory leaks amongst other things.

NeHe should have a replacement for Glaux listed on the left side of the front page.

you are so freakin awesome! Thanks for all the help...I found the glaux replacement, but I also found out that all the lessons so far render fine without the glaux header. I've got it for later though...THanks again!

As I suspected, glaux is needed in the later lessons...(Well, starting at about lesson 6:P)So I figured I would replace the old glaux lib with the replacement, but I can't get anything to work. Any help would be appreciated, as I can create 3d objects now, and move them around in space, at any color specified, yet I can't give any textures, much less texture blending and other things. Thanks in advance, Razorblade