PyOpenGL install issues....

[Bryan Coon]

Simon Wittber (Maptek) wrote:
> Hi Bryan,
> 
> I too had lots of difficulty installing PyOpenGL on RH8.
> 
> I can't tell exactly what your problem is, however it does look similar
> to the error messages I was getting.
> 
> I solved the problem by installing Numeric, OpenGL, GLUT, then PyOpenGL.
> I have an nvidia card, which came with its own set of OpenGL drivers,
> but did not come with GLUT.
> 
> I then had to change the PyOpenGL configuration file to use -lGL -lGLU
> -lGlut instead of the mesa libs. I suggest you make sure you have all
> the required libs, then try and build PyOpenGL again. 
> 
> Its worth the trouble, PyOpenGL is great!; Esp. when used with pygame
> (SDL).


Thanks for the info Simon!  I too have an nvidia card, so our setups 
should be similar.

But being a complete python newbie, can you tell me more specifically 
what config file to change and how?  I saw in the config dir the 
linux.cfg file, but I am not sure how to change

[GL]
libs=GL:X11:Xext

so that it looks for the non-mesa libs (if that is even the right place 
to change them!).  Just hacking a bit I changed the line to 
'libs=-lGL:X11:Xext' but that didn't change anything... compiling still 
bombed.  At any rate, I think I should have all the required libs now. 
I installed GLUT, and since I have the nvidia card drivers installed, as 
you say I should have the opengl libs installed as well.  I also 
installed Numeric...

Any additional info you can pass on would be great...

Thanks!
Bryan