From: ccos <ccos@...>
Date: 2002-06-19T17:53:15+09:00
Subject: binary dls [was opengl for ruby]

hey,

thanks much. i've actually decided to defer
my ruby studies until after i have learned C and UNIX,
which is unfortunate, but neccesary methinks.
learning these was on my todo list regardless,
and i'm enjoying C quite a bit, but it'd be
great if i and others could take advantage of ruby and all the
extras people have written for it, w/o neccesarily having to know
these other things.

it would be really good for fledgling programmers,
and help out the popularity of ruby a lot if there were
binary packages available for different platforms.
kind of like squeak or any smalltalk, (which i learned on).
it would be such a good language
to learn programming and oop with, because
it is as clean and well designed as smalltalk, and can
easily be extended and used to 'script' lower level stuff.
but unlike smalltalk it is becoming more and more of an asset to know
in the marketplace. would anybody be up for setting up a site where one 
could download
binaries of everything? i would be glad to help out with
it in any way that i could. (i do web design work)

best,
c


On Monday, June 17, 2002, at 12:23  AM, Ned Konz wrote:

> On Saturday 15 June 2002 11:00 pm, ccos wrote:
>> hey there,
>> thanks for the reply.
>> i'm a newbie and the opengl doco's in japanese
>> so i'm a bit at a loss. i am hitting the unix and c books
>> pretty hard now that i have a bit of free time, but it'll
>> probably be a little while before i get the hang of what is going
>> on behind the scenes, so the help is very
>> much appreciated. but, to answer your question:
>>
>> no i haven't installed the glut package.
>> wouldn't the fact that there is no leading
>> slash in front of GL (
>>
>>> glut.c:8: GL/glut.h: No such file or directory
>>
>> ) indicate that
>> it is looking for it in the same directory as
>> the opengl stuff?
>
> It's looking for it to be in one of the -I paths (like, for instance,
> /usr/local/include/GL/glut.h)
>
>> ...i had the glut stuff installed?
>> how/where do i change the include path?
>> is this a ruby glut library?
>
> Well, a lot of the answer would depend on what operating system you're
> using (you didn't say).
>
> Assuming you're running Linux, you'd want to make sure you'd loaded
> the glut and glut-devel packages.
>
> How you load packages depends on your operating system.
>
> On a Red Hat system, you'd use RPM, and you'd install the two packages
> off (probably) the Disc 2 of the distribution.
>
> --
> Ned Konz
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