From: Ilmari Heikkinen <ilmari.heikkinen@...>
Date: 2006-04-01T13:28:02+09:00
Subject: Re: openGL documention?

On 4/1/06, john_sips_tea@yahoo.com <john_sips_tea@yahoo.com> wrote:> Just for some background, here on Debian Etch I can apt-get install> libopengl-ruby (the package which supplies ruby-opengl:> http://www2.giganet.net/~yoshi/ ). To install it, it pulls in freeglut3> also. It gives you opengl.so and glut.so. The readme does not seem to> be available in english.
> Would someone mind posting a translation of the README.EUC here?> Thanks,> ---John
It's out of date, but here goes, with the help of wwwjdic:

opengl extension module
This module is for using OpenGL+glut from ruby.Due to the implementation still being incomplete,use it with the awareness that there is a greatnumber of bugs and functions that can't be used.
This module has been tested with ruby-1.4.3 onirix6.5+glut3.7.
External dependencies: OpenGL(Mesa)+glut.
Installing
copy opengl.0.3.tgz into ruby's directory andexecute the following commands:
        gzip -dc opengl.0.3.tgz | tar xvf -        cd ruby-gl        ruby extconf.rb        make
Usage
For using GL, GLU:  require "opengl"For using GLUT:  require "glut"
For more details, consult the source filesin the sample directory.
Note: if a sample app crashes with an X error,comment out the line with have_library("pthread","pthread_create")in extconf.rb, recompile the module, and try again.
Send bug reports, opinions about the module, etc.to one of the following, please: [contact infos]
Most of the work was done by yashi. Muchos gracias (???)