Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 2021-04-13

Chapter 25. X Libraries

Freeglut-3.2.1

Introduction to Freeglut

Freeglut is intended to be a 100% compatible, completely opensourced clone of the GLUT library. GLUT is a window system independent toolkit for writing OpenGL programs, implementing a simple windowing API, which makes learning about and exploring OpenGL programming very easy.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-10.1 platform.

Package Information

Additional Downloads

Freeglut Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.20.1 and Mesa-20.3.4

Recommended

GLU-9.0.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/freeglut

Installation of Freeglut

First, fix an issue with multiple defined symbols exposed by GCC-10: 

patch -Np1 -i ../freeglut-3.2.1-gcc10_fix-1.patch

Install Freeglut by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr       \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release        \
      -DFREEGLUT_BUILD_DEMOS=OFF        \
      -DFREEGLUT_BUILD_STATIC_LIBS=OFF  \
      -Wno-dev .. &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

-DFREEGLUT_BUILD_DEMOS=OFF: Disable building optional demo programs. Note that if you choose to build them, their installation must be done manually. The demo programs are limited and installation is not recommended.

-DFREEGLUT_BUILD_STATIC_LIBS=OFF: Do not build the static library.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Library: libglut.so
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libglut.so

contains functions that implement the OpenGL Utility Toolkit

Last updated on 2021-02-21 13:05:24 -0600