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user1150512
user1150512

Reputation: 259

Compiling C programs with GLUT headers for Windows (in Linux)

I can currently compile C programs with stdio.h and such like for Windows with the command i586-mingw32msvc-gcc, however I cannot do this for a GLUT program. When compiling it for Linux I use:

gcc main.c -lglut -lGLU

(I know, bad practice as it comes out with a.out)

Yet I am unsure of how I could do it for Windows using mingw32. When I run 

i586-mingw32msvc -lglut -lGLU

it returns:

test.c:3:21: error: GL/glut.h: No such file or directory

The included header files are:

#include <GL/gl.h>
#include <GL/glu.h>
#include <GL/glut.h>

And I am unsure of how to make it able to compile. Any ideas?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1287

Answers (1)

datenwolf
datenwolf

Reputation: 162317

Essentially that error tells you, that your MinGW GCC does not find the required headers. That is, because you're cross-compiling to another OS, and header files may contain OS specific things. Unfortunately OpenGL is one of those. So you have to install the required libraries in a Windows version as well.

However you should not just download some precompiled binaries from the web; you need libraries matching MinGW. You can of course install MinGW built libraries, that will work. However I suggest something different: Crosscompile and locally install all the libraries you require in your MinGW environment yourself. You do this, by passing the right compiler, linker and prefixes into the build configuration of each library. For example for autoconf based configure (on my system)

CC=i686-mingw32-gcc CXX=i686-mingw32-g++ ./configure --prefix=/usr/i686-mingw

make ; make install will then build and install the libraries and their headers in the MinGW environment, where you can use them as any other regular installed library.

Upvotes: 1

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