Is it possible to build FreeGLUT on Mac OS X?

Question

I'm doing some tutorials on OpenGL that use FreeGLUT.

Apparently this is how you build and install it on the mac:

CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/X11R6/include" ./configure --prefix="${PWD}/../"
make
make install

Unfortunately this on its own gives me an error when I do the make command: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64

After doing abit of work I've found that an improvement on the first line is:

CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/X11R6/lib" ./configure --prefix="${PWD}/../"

Unfortunately when I do the make command I'm still getting an error:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../..   -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -I../../../include  -g -O2 -Wall -pedantic -MT smooth_opengl3-smooth_opengl3.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/smooth_opengl3-smooth_opengl3.Tpo -c -o smooth_opengl3-smooth_opengl3.o `test -f 'smooth_opengl3.c' || echo './'`smooth_opengl3.c
smooth_opengl3.c:101: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLGENBUFFERSPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5080: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLGENBUFFERSPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:102: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLBINDBUFFERPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5078: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLBINDBUFFERPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:103: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLBUFFERDATAPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5082: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLBUFFERDATAPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:104: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLCREATESHADERPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5197: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLCREATESHADERPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:105: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLSHADERSOURCEPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5222: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLSHADERSOURCEPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:106: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLCOMPILESHADERPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5195: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLCOMPILESHADERPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:107: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLCREATEPROGRAMPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5196: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLCREATEPROGRAMPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:108: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLATTACHSHADERPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5193: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLATTACHSHADERPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:109: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLLINKPROGRAMPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5221: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLLINKPROGRAMPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:110: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLUSEPROGRAMPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5223: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLUSEPROGRAMPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:111: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLGETSHADERIVPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5209: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLGETSHADERIVPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:112: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLGETSHADERINFOLOGPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5210: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLGETSHADERINFOLOGPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:113: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLGETPROGRAMIVPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5207: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLGETPROGRAMIVPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:114: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLGETPROGRAMINFOLOGPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5208: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLGETPROGRAMINFOLOGPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:115: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLGETATTRIBLOCATIONPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5206: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLGETATTRIBLOCATIONPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:116: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLVERTEXATTRIBPOINTERPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5280: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLVERTEXATTRIBPOINTERPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:117: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLENABLEVERTEXATTRIBARRAYPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5202: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLENABLEVERTEXATTRIBARRAYPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:118: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLGETUNIFORMLOCATIONPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5212: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLGETUNIFORMLOCATIONPROC’ was here
smooth_opengl3.c:119: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLUNIFORMMATRIX4FVPROC’
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5242: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLUNIFORMMATRIX4FVPROC’ was here
make[4]: *** [smooth_opengl3-smooth_opengl3.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

This has been documented on the net before, but the solution isn't really all that helpful in this instance. I've also tried swapping it for the GLUT.framwork that comes with OS X, but the examples are using FreeGLUT-specific functions.

Lampoon

Ok, I've got a little further in this. Using CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib" ./configure --prefix="${PWD}/../" gets rid of the 'Undefined symbols' error. But now I get ld: library not found for -lGL \ collect2: ld returned 1 exit status \ make[2]: *** [libglut.la] Error 1 \ make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 / make: *** [all] Error 2 – Lampoon

Maybe you should also check with LDFLAGS, -L/usr/X11R6/lib is needed. – Burkhalter

Ooh thanks. Ok so I used CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/X11R6/lib" ./configure --prefix="${PWD}/../" and I got rid of the previous error. Now I get a whole load of errors along the lines of smooth_opengl3.c:101: error: redefinition of typedef ‘PFNGLGENBUFFERSPROC’ \ /usr/X11R6/include/GL/glext.h:5080: error: previous declaration of ‘PFNGLGENBUFFERSPROC’ was here – Lampoon

Would you update your question accordingly, so that I can start an answer? Excessive comments of conversations are not recommended in this site. – Burkhalter

Answer 1

XQuartz 2.7.2 swapped to FreeGLUT (2.8.0) instead of the old MesaGLUT. So provided you have OS X version 10.6.3 or later, you can just install XQuartz 2.7.2 or later. See:

• http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.7.2
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/x11-users/2012/Apr/msg00020.html

Caliber

For those who're wondering how to set up freeglut in XCode, see lazyfoo.net/tutorials/OpenGL/01_hello_opengl/mac/xcode/… – Manualmanubrium

Answer 2

It was suggested on Xquartz's mail list, that the freeglut demo is wrong to declare those PFN*PROC twice.

So, by simply commenting out those double-definition from smooth_opengl3.c, the free glut would pass the compilation phase. However, from my experience, it would not run and give some error about the GLSL.

It was also suggested that GLUT framework should be used on Mac OS X.

Burkhalter

Unfortunately, OSX's GLUT framework doesn't support OpenGL 3.2. – Karafuto

Answer 3

It´s working for me with the following parameters to configure:

./configure  CFLAGS="-I/usr/X11/include/X11/extensions -L/usr/X11/lib" LIBS="-lXrandr -lXxf86vm -lXi" --with-x --x-includes=/usr/X11/include

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