I installed RedHat9 just some time ago.. and can''t do any game programming. I''v used Debian and Gentoo before and everything was ok... but now: Where do I install GL headers? OpenAL? Can''t find rpm paclages for them... Other distros I''v used had all of those nicely available! And I try to run precompiled game... "error while loading shared libraries: libXxf86vm.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" Where do they think I''ll get that for RedHat9? Weird... Maybe I need to find way to install Debian again..

I think the OpenGL headers are included in the "XFree86-devel" package. Red Hat doesn't supply OpenAL RPM packages, but you might find an acceptable RPM or SRPM on RPM Find. (Pretty sure the Xxf86vm answer was incorrect, I misread something; So, I'll just remove it early...)

Not having a Red Hat system around to check, I answered all of this based upon my scanning of Red Hat's FTP server's RPM directory, so I could have make mistakes.

New Xxf86vm answer, after doing a bit of research: Apparently, XFree86's video mode extension has no permanent API (how true that is in practice, I'm not sure). Which means you're not meant to distribute executables or libraries linked to it as a shared library and instead one should statically link to it (of course, make sure to link to a PIC version of it for libraries).



[edited by - Null and Void on September 20, 2003 9:58:15 PM]

Ok, thanks much dude.
Now I can compile it.. and to everyone using Redhat.. apt-rpm makes life much easier!