Contents
Installed Programs:
glewinfo and visualinfo
Installed Library:
libGLEW.so
Installed Directory:
/usr/include/GL
GLEW-2.2.0
Introduction to GLEW
GLEW is the OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library.
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
Note
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Package Information
Download (HTTP): https://downloads.sourceforge.net/glew/glew-2.2.0.tgz
Download MD5 sum: 3579164bccaef09e36c0af7f4fd5c7c7
Download size: 820 KB
Estimated disk space required: 16 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
glew Dependencies
Required
Installation of GLEW
Install GLEW by running the following commands:
sed -i 's%lib64%lib%g' config/Makefile.linux &&
sed -i -e '/glew.lib.static:/d' \
-e '/0644 .*STATIC/d' \
-e 's/glew.lib.static//' Makefile &&
makeThis package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install.all
Command Explanations
sed -i 's%lib64%lib%g' ...: This ensures that the
library is installed in /usr/lib.
sed -i -e '/glew.lib.static:/d' ...: This suppresses the static library.
make install.all: This installs the programs as well as the library.