To: bpr at artisan.com
Cc: lablgtk at kaba.or.jp
Subject: Re: lablGL
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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 07:01:27 +0900
From: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@artisan.com>

>     I've been trying with little success to get lablGL-0.95 running on 
> my platforms of interest, currently RH Linux 7.0 and Solaris. Despite what 
> the website, the OpenGL setup on RH 7.0 seems incomplete, so I had to
> install Mesa. The lablGL/Mesa combo worked well with OCaml 3.01, but with 
> 3.02 I get core dumps with every example but simple.ml. 

I didn't try on RedHat, but this works OK today on
FreeBSD4.3/Ocaml3.02/Tcl8.3/Mesa3.2.

Can you send your exact configuration, and also LablGL's Makefile.config?
I know that some extensions and localizations of Tcl won't work. Go
for the vanilla stuff, or use lablGL with lablgtk.

>     On Solaris, I had our sysadmin install opengl, and while the demo
> programs seem to work well, and lablGL compiled OK, I don't get any 
> graphics, just windows which capture the contents of the screen over which
> they appear. I don't have the particulars of the package our sysadmin
> installed, but I can find out later if taht's helpful info. 

I had it working on Solaris' OpenGL, but didn't check recently.
I see no reason it should go wrong, but remember your X server should
have the OpenGL extension loaded to display anything. I suppose you
get an error message otherwise.

Regards,

Jacques Garrigue