Makefile with OpenGL/Glut

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Find your glut library

To know where to find glut.h (usually in /usr/lib/GL)
$ locate glut.h
or
$ find / -iname glut.h

(this directory should be added in the path with the flag -I/GLUT_DIRECTORY)

We take the case of this makefile, used for instance in this project.

Classical Linux systems

DIR_X	=	(usually ok, might try with -I/usr/X11R6/lib)
DIR_OPENGL	=	(usually ok, see where to locate glut.h)
FLAGS_X	=	(usually ok, might try with -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext -lXmu -lXi)
FLAGS_OPENGL	= -lglut

See this exemple: test_make_linux.tar.gz

Cygwin

(see this tutorial)
Also need to run in cygwin-X ($ startx)

DIR_X	=	(usually ok, might try with -I/usr/include and-or -I/usr/X11R6/include)
DIR_OPENGL	=	(usually ok, see where to locate glut.h)
FLAGS_X	= -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext -lXi -lXmu
FLAGS_OPENGL	= -lopengl32 -lglu32 -lglut32

See this exemple: test_make_cygwin.tar.gz

Mac OsX

DIR_X	= -I/usr/X11R6/include
DIR_OPENGL	= -I/opt/local/include/GL
FLAGS_X	= -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext -lXi -lXmu
FLAGS_OPENGL	= -L/opt/local/lib -lGL -lGLU -lglut

Dev-C++

(see this tutorial)

Use to Glut-DevPak and start a Multimedia/glut project.
Or download glut, add glut.h and glut.lib into the project (glut.dll in the same directory) add the linkage parameters -lglut32 -opengl32 -lglu32 -lgdi32 -lwinmm

See this exemple: test_devcpp.tar.gz

qmake

If QT is installed, use qmake to build the makefile (cross-platform for linux/cygwin/...)

$ qmake NAME.pro
$ make
$ ./BINARY_NAME

See this exemple: test_qmake.tar.gz