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 12.2 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://downloads.sourceforge.net/freeglut/freeglut-3.6.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 1a1c4712b3100f49f5dea22a1ad57c34
Download size: 420 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
Install Freeglut by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \ -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ -D FREEGLUT_BUILD_DEMOS=OFF \ -D FREEGLUT_BUILD_STATIC_LIBS=OFF \ -W no-dev .. && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
-D
FREEGLUT_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.
-D
FREEGLUT_BUILD_STATIC_LIBS=OFF
: Do not build the static
library.