To step back a bit: My ultimate goal is to install the PyMOL package with python on my Windows XP and to run it on cygwin. It appears from Brian Ford's message below (my thanks to him) that the cygwin XFree86 binaries must necessarily include the GLX extension in order to mesh with the OpenGL libraries. That means it would be unnecessary to compile a GLX package from another source, since the cygwin XFree86 binaries already have everything needed. Is this correct?
I have sent the PyMOL developers a message outlining my problem, but I have a few questions that I think would be better answered on a cygwin list: 1. Is the GLUT library included in cygwin's OpenGL package? 2. Does cygwin's python version include support for threads and megawidgets? Thanks to Igor Pechtchanski and Brian Ford for their kind suggestions. I will of course be grateful for any answers to the questions above. Yours truly, John P. Sutter SPring-8/JASRI 1-1-1 Kouto, Mikazuki-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo-ken 679-5198 JAPAN -----Original Message----- From: Brian Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 4:10 AM To: John P. Sutter Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: FW: question about cygwin OpenGL On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, John P. Sutter wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 1:26 AM > > On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, John P. Sutter wrote: > >> I have downloaded the OpenGL library source code from cygwin onto my > >> Windows XP computer and have been trying to set it up from the > >> makefiles. > > > >First off, why would you want to do this if there are binary packages > >available for Cygwin? > > Because I would like to install XFree86 on my system with the GLX > extension, If the x.org fork of XFree86 is acceptable, then... > which as far as I know is not included in the standard Yes, it is. > OpenGL library, No, you said the GLX extension. That is a feature of an X server, not of the OpenGL library (ie. -lGL). > but must be compiled with it. I thought that this would > require the original source code for OpenGL. If I am wrong, and only the > OpenGL binaries available from cygwin are needed, I would be thrilled! Step back. What *exactly* are you trying to accomplish in the end? Here is the Cygwin OpenGL roadmap: If your application is X11 based: (This is OT for this list. See redirection request below.) The default Cygwin X server supports GLX via Mesa software emulation. Their is an experimental version of the Cygwin X server that supports GLX w/ hardware acceleration, but it is *experimental* and unfinished. Compile with -I /usr/X11R6/include Link w/ -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lglut (X11 based freeglut) -lGLU -lGL If your application is purely glut based: You can freely choose either path :-). If your application is/can be Windows GUI based: Full hardware acceleration is supported via a Windows pass through. Link -lglut32 (Windows original glut port) -lglu32 -lopengl32 See /usr/share/doc/opengl-1.1.0/README.txt Does that help? Please send any X11 related follow-ups to the cygwin-xfree list. Thanks. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
