[Mesa-users] Problem with libGLU.so on mesa installation from source

Brian Paul brianp at vmware.com
Fri Jun 15 01:49:46 UTC 2018


On 06/14/2018 09:19 AM, Seshadri Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had gotten glu from that site, and even compiled it. I just realized 
> what went wrong. I did not use the --with-prefix= flag to install the 
> libraries in the same location as the main mesa.
> 
> I did that, and now I can see the libGLU.so.
> 
> I have one more question. How do I install GLUT?

IIRC, you do ./configure --prefix=something ; make, like for GLU.


> The link you gave for 
> glut gives a tarball which, when untarred, gives me this:
> 
> skumar at KumarLaptop:~/Software/src/Mesa/Mesa-7.9.2$ ls
> include  src
> skumar at KumarLaptop:~/Software/src/Mesa/Mesa-7.9.2$ ls include/GL/
> glutf90.h  glut.h
> skumar at KumarLaptop:~/Software/src/Mesa/Mesa-7.9.2$ ls src
> glut
> skumar at KumarLaptop:~/Software/src/Mesa/Mesa-7.9.2$ ls src/glut
> beos  glx
> skumar at KumarLaptop:~/Software/src/Mesa/Mesa-7.9.2$
> 
> How do I get these include files and compile the source files to stay 
> with the main mesa install?

Stay with the main mesa install??  I'm not sure I know what you mean.

-Brian


> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Kumar
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 5:59 PM, Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com 
> <mailto:brianp at vmware.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 06/14/2018 03:33 AM, Seshadri Kumar wrote:
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>         Got mesa-18.1.1.tar.gz from the download site, configured and made.
> 
>         Am trying to use it for a package (Overture) but the Overture
>         build fails because it cannot find libGLU.so among the libraries.
> 
>         When I look in my lib folder, I don't see it. What do I need to
>         do for mesa to build this library?
> 
>         skumar at KumarLaptop:~/Software/src/Mesa/mesa-18.1.1/lib$ ls
>         gallium      libEGL.so.1.0.0  libglapi.so.0         
>         libGLESv2.so        libGL.so.1.2.0       nouveau_vieux_dri.so
>         i915_dri.so  libgbm.so        libglapi.so.0.0.0     
>         libGLESv2.so.2      libOSMesa.so         r200_dri.so
>         i965_dri.so  libgbm.so.1      libGLESv1_CM.so       
>         libGLESv2.so.2.0.0  libOSMesa.so.8       radeon_dri.so
>         libEGL.so    libgbm.so.1.0.0  libGLESv1_CM.so.1      libGL.so   
>                  libOSMesa.so.8.0.0   swrast_dri.so
>         libEGL.so.1  libglapi.so      libGLESv1_CM.so.1.1.0  libGL.so.1 
>                  mesa_dri_drivers.so
> 
>         Also downloaded glu-9.0.0, MesaGLUT-7.9.2, and mesa-demos-8.4.0
>         and compiled them as well. I cannot see this library anywhere.
> 
>         Please help.
> 
> 
>     Look in ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/
>     <ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/>
> 
>     or, your linux distro should have a libglu package which you could
>     install.
> 
>     -Brian
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Seshadri Kumar
> Creo, ergo sum (I Create, Therefore I Am)
> 



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