where are the opengl libraries get stored on ubuntu : i need this to mention in my make file

Question

where are the opengl libraries get stored on ubuntu9.10 : i need this to mention in my make file and what are all the link files i need to mention

Solution 1

Install these to get OpenGL working:

sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev

sudo apt-get install freeglut3

sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev

The OpenGL files should be in:

/usr/include/GL/

The Terminal (Compiler) reads (e.g. g++) from:

/usr/bin/

Compile like this (you might need to link more libraries, but test this):

g++ filename -lglut -lGL -lGLU

Solution 2

/usr/lib/libGL.so

link with -lGL

Solution 3

You should not need to mention their location explicitly in your Makefile since they should be in the standard library search path (probably in /usr/lib).

Like sisis wrote you should just need to add -lGL to the linker flags to link against libGL.so which might actually come from different sources: mesa or some fancy graphics card driver.

Comments

[kumar]

in usr/lib i didnt find the file ,can i know what names it may have

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

If you don't have it then perhaps you should consider installing it from its package. Try something starting with mesa and ending with -dev.

[kumar]

do u mean manually or please can you tell me the procedure apt get i did the following libgl1-mesa libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa glutg3 glutg3-dev libglui-dev libglut3 libglut3-dev can you suggest me more

[kumar]

Hai Lgnacio, I did the installation of opengl but where are my lib files stored that info i need ,What names the lib file will have ...etc ..etc