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I'd like to compile Celestia from CVS under Linux, which leads me to two problems. The first is: there is no configure-script in cvs and I failed to create one from configure.in (hints?)
I "solved" this by using the script from source release 1.2.4

The second problem may be somewhat related to the first: configure complains about missing function "...keyboardUpFunc..." in glut, although I have glut 3.7 installed. I found some hints in glut.h that there are different GLUT_API_VERSIONs (1..4) and the missing function is in API version 4.
So I guess, my glut install is set to API version 3. But even recompiling glut from scratch and changing the #define in glut.h by hand does not help.

What is the correct way of installing glut? Or is it just the old configure script?

Thankful for every kind of help...

steffens

steffens wrote:I'd like to compile Celestia from CVS under Linux, which leads me to two problems. The first is: there is no configure-script in cvs and I failed to create one from configure.in (hints?)
I "solved" this by using the script from source release 1.2.4

The second problem may be somewhat related to the first: configure complains about missing function "...keyboardUpFunc..." in glut, although I have glut 3.7 installed. I found some hints in glut.h that there are different GLUT_API_VERSIONs (1..4) and the missing function is in API version 4.
So I guess, my glut install is set to API version 3. But even recompiling glut from scratch and changing the #define in glut.h by hand does not help.

What is the correct way of installing glut? Or is it just the old configure script?

Thankful for every kind of help...

steffens

Pleeeeaaase, before writing such long letters, you could have saved yourself /and/ us some time by scanning some of the 7268 mails in this forum;-)

Have a look in Celestia Development->CVS help

Bye Fridger

PS: as a homework, why don't you estimate the probability that your question has already appeared before in one of the 7268 mails;-)

Questions about compiling celestia under linux have been posted again and again, I'm reading them with big interest. Just the problem _I_ had was not discussed since I'm reading this group, as far as I remember.
No matter, I finally managed to compile it myself. And as I think it might be useful for others to...

To create the missing configure script, I could simply do
> automake
> autoconf
Don't know why I never tried this before. Maybe this should be worth a note in some INSTALL file...

Maybe it is interesting for someone to know that celestia is running fine with freeglut http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/, I had no problems with missing keyboardUpFunc with this.

Sorry for the long post again, I did not wont to waste anyones time.

steffen

steffens wrote:Questions about compiling celestia under linux have been posted again and again, I'm reading them with big interest. Just the problem _I_ had was not discussed since I'm reading this group, as far as I remember.
No matter, I finally managed to compile it myself. And as I think it might be useful for others to...

To create the missing configure script, I could simply do
> automake
> autoconf
Don't know why I never tried this before. Maybe this should be worth a note in some INSTALL file...

Maybe it is interesting for someone to know that celestia is running fine with freeglut http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/, I had no problems with missing keyboardUpFunc with this.

Sorry for the long post again, I did not wont to waste anyones time.

steffen

I don't know what you are reading in this forum, but I recommend you check 'Celestia Development->CVS-help' where the required commands are discussed at length. This is the most recent repetition of an old story.

I can only recommend to use the SEARCH facility that this box offeres....

Bye Fridger