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发表于 2006-4-9 23:50:00
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What?
freeglut is a completely OpenSourced alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library. GLUT was originally written by Mark Kilgard to support the sample programs in the second edition OpenGL 'RedBook'. Since then, GLUT has been used in a wide variety of practical applications because it is simple, widely available and highly portable.
GLUT (and hence freeglut) allows the user to create and manage windows containing OpenGL contexts on a wide range of platforms and also read the mouse, keyboard and joystick functions.
freeglut is released under the X-Consortium license.
Why?
The original GLUT library seems to have been abandoned with the most recent version (3.7) dating back to August 1998. Its license does not allow anyone to distribute modified library code. This would be OK, if not for the fact that GLUT is getting old and really needs improvement. Also, GLUT's license is incompatible with some software distributions (e.g., XFree86).
Who?
freeglut was originally written by Pawel W. Olszta with contributions from Andreas Umbach and Steve Baker. Steve is now the official owner/maintainer of freeglut.
When?
Pawel started freeglut development on December 1st, 1999. The project is now virtually a 100% replacement for the original GLUT with only a few departures (such as the abandonment of SGI-specific features such as the Dials&Buttons box and Dynamic Video Resolution) and a shrinking set of bugs.
没有打一个包,也许有很多原因的。而且从来我们就可以自己动手丰衣足食。。下面是源代码的下载地址、Gentoo 的ebuild和 RedHat Fedora 相应的spec文件,抓下来编译就是了。。。
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.n ... 4.0.tar.gz?download
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36783
http://jumpgate.homelinux.net/random/freeglut-fedora/
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