Installing GLUT3.7 under Fedora Core 1 (Linux)

REMARK: This document assumes that Mesa3D library(and therefore all OpenGL libraries) is already installed. If you installed Fedora(and many other popular distributions), Mesa is normally installed as it is a dependency for many applications. If in doubt, you can check this by 'rpm -qa | grep Mesa'. This should list these two, and perhaps more.
	XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-42
	XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-42

REMARK: The installation sequence is heavily borrowed from Speed King's walkthrough, correcting a few minor errors. Original document is located at http://www.geocities.com/mhoare2000/linux/instglut.html

REMARK: If compiled with the script below, the executable may complain for DRI / TCL support. TCL(Transformation/Clipping/Lighting) is surely an important functions in OpenGL, but if your video chipset is reasonably recent, this may be ignored. I've tested with ATI Radeon M16 and Riva TNT M16, and they both work flawlessly.


1. First download Glut3.7 from OpenGL website. 
(http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut/glut-3.7.tar.gz)



2. Follow the following commands (assuming you're super user for install purposes)

	cd /usr/src
	tar -xvzf glut-3.7.tar.gz
	cd glut-3.7
	
	cd linux
	cp Glut.cf ..
	cd ..
	Edit Glut.cf: remove any Mesa references.
	Replace any -lMesaGL -lMesaGLU with -lGL -lGLU if needed.
	In particular, replace:
		OPENGL = $(TOP)/../lib/libMesaGL.so
		GLU = $(TOP)/../lib/libMesaGLU.so
	with:
		OPENGL = -lGL
		GLU = -lGLU
	
	./mkmkfiles.imake
	cd lib/glut
	cp /usr/src/glut-3.7/linux/Makefile .
	Edit the Makefile: remove any Mesa references.
	Replace any -lMesaGL -lMesaGLU with -lGL -lGLU if needed.
	In particular, replace:
		OPENGL = $(TOP)/../lib/libMesaGL.so
		GLU = $(TOP)/../lib/libMesaGLU.so
	with:
		OPENGL = -lGL
		GLU = -lGLU
		
	make
	ln -s libglut.so.3.7 libglut.so
	ln -s libglut.so.3.7 libglut.so.3
	cp -d libglut.* /usr/lib
	cd ..
	make
	cd gle
	-- make a shared lib for libgle
	gcc -shared -o libgle.so.3.7 *.o
	ln -s libgle.so.3.7 libgle.so
	ln -s libgle.so.3.7 libgle.so.3
	cp -d libgle.* /usr/lib
	cd ..
	cd mui
	-- make a shared lib for libmui
	gcc -shared -o libmui.so.3.7 *.o
	ln -s libmui.so.3.7 libmui.so
	ln -s libmui.so.3.7 libmui.so.3
	cp -d libmui.* /usr/lib
	cd ../../man/glut
	make install.man
	/sbin/ldconfig
	cd /usr/src/glut-3.7/include/GL
	cp * /usr/include/GL

	cd ../../progs/demos/ideas
	-- edit Makefile: 
		$(TOP)/../lib/libGLU.so  -> /usr/lib/libGLU.so
		$(TOP)/../lib/libGL.so	 -> /usr/lib/libGL.so


	make
	./ideas

3. You can read through the Makefile located at /usr/src/glut-3.7/progs/demos/ideas/Makefile.
I'm attaching a short script that will take 2 parameters: 1) source file 2) executable and compile.

#!/bin/sh
if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
	echo "Usage: compile source binary" 1>&2
	exit 1
fi
SOURCE=$1
BINARY=$2

COMPOPT="gcc -o "$BINARY" -L/usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/libglut.so /usr/lib/libGLU.so /usr/lib/libGL.so -lXmu -lXi "$SOURCE

$COMPOPT