PyOpenGL demo in wxPython demo crashes

Doug Holton insert at spam.here
Mon May 3 12:23:56 EDT 2004


Peter Hansen wrote:
> 
> 
> Okay, in spite of installing everything that I should have,
> I didn't have a glut32.dll on my machine.  Google led me
> to http://www.xmission.com/~nate/glut.html from where I
> downloaded a copy, manually stuck it in c:\windows\system32,
> and PyOpenGL works now.
> 
> Now I see that this is on the pyopengl.sourceforge.net
> installation notes page...  I don't recall installing this
> the same way last time, but there you go.  Not only RTFM,
> but go back and read it again another time if things still
> don't work.

Right, but this means anytime you want to distribute a program using 
pyopengl you have to tell your users to manually install glut32.dll 
also.  pyopengl should run without requiring glut if you do not use the 
glut functions, or else it should include a copy of glut32.dll itself.



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