Hi All, I was wondering if anyone out there is doing their development on Linux/UNIX VS. Windows. I am trying to convert a small OpenGL program that I wrote in Windows (not GLUT) to run on Linux/UNIX X-Windows and I can not find any simple examples. I am not trying to become an X-Windows expert (I have to many other things I am trying to learn right now - linear algebra!!!) and I really don''t want to buy Mark Kilgrade''s book on OpenGL with XWindows at this time. I am just looking for some simple templates that that would get me started. I tried looking at Nehe''s web site where someone was nice enough to convert some of the tutorials to "Solaris" but they did it by using GLUT. I also found a couple tutorials on Nehe''s site that were written for Linux and did not use GLUT. So here are my questions: 1) Does anyone have some suggestions/simple examples of writting OpenGL apps on XWindows (Not using GLUT). 2) Does anyone know if XWindows source code for Linux would be compatable with XWindows source code on Solaris 8 (I know there are different window managers but is the underlying code to create and display a window in X the same across various UNIX platforms?) Thanks for any insight you all can provide, jpummill

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I was wondering if anyone out there is doing their development on Linux/UNIX VS. Windows.

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I am. I''m sure others are too.

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Original post by jpummill
I am trying to convert a small OpenGL program that I wrote in Windows (not GLUT) to run on Linux/UNIX X-Windows and I can not find any simple examples.

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1) Does anyone have some suggestions/simple examples of writting OpenGL apps on XWindows (Not using GLUT).

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XLib is pretty cryptic. I''d advise you use something like SDL to help you out. Or, you can look at the source SDL has for setting up OpenGL in X.

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2) Does anyone know if XWindows source code for Linux would be compatable with XWindows source code on Solaris 8

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It should be.

I''ve not done any GL linux coding yet but i do know of various APIs like GLX (NVIDIA), and DRI (ATI and a couple of others) As i know it u can Just use GLX and it should be compatible with the DRI cards as well but i''m not quite sure. Perhaps u might want to look up the NVidia site. The GLX Devels i THINK (i''m not too sure) are included in the linux driver package.

U could also try looking up the MESA projects web site and u can use the MESA GL emulation software to develop for hardware acceled platforms too i might add. They should have something on linux devel for beginners.

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