Re: Mesa library

Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Tue, 02 Mar 1999 17:22:47 +0000

Frederic MACHEFERT wrote:
>
> Hello ,
>
> I wish I could use the Mesa library in my Root code. Unfortunately, it
> seems that I don't have any access to it though I loaded correctly the
> shared libraries (.x GL.C). I would like not to use the interface
> provided in Root , but to generate my own window by the OpenGl Glut
> instructions. Is-it possible ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Frederic.

Hi Frederic,
We compile Root with the OpenGL option only for Linux and HP-UX (CC)
in the binary distributions.
If you do not use the binary distributions, but the makefiles, you can
install Root with OpenGL (look into the AA_README file for the
procedure).

In case you use Linux or HP-UX, I do not understand your problem.
can you run tutorials/shapes for example and select the OpenGL viewer
from the Canvas "View" menu?

If you do not want to use the Root/OpenGL interface, you can look
at the GL_*.cxx routines in the distribution for examples
of calls to openGL.

Rene Brun